Thank you for your input. It is appreciated.
I had done some research on this and had lenghtly e-mail correspondence with the Support Staff of the FXFOTO Software. He kept arguing that cropping a photo down to a size of 8x10 is not cropping?!! Yet they have the size on their Software stating 8x10 and so on where one drags the suqare rope to that particular size.
Everyone refers to it as cropping. I do understand that it implies cropping of a pixel size in inches or in cm. But" It is still cropping to me.......
I also have found since that DPI and PPI are two different things.
DPI (Dot Per Inch) for Printer dots per square inch designated and used for Printer settings. PPI Pixel per square inch refering to your Photo image.
Many people share confusion on this as i did. But" too many out there are writing big essay's on it. Keep it simple is the best way as you have done here.
I have also been explained and there is also some write up supporting this.
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total pixel size is what is important and that the 72 ppi or 300ppi are just a useless number.
It's been suggested that Developers should provide People with the information on what total pixel size is needed instead of feeding everyone with a DPI that is dedicated to the setting of their Printers. As long as they get the total pixel amount that is needed to do the print is from what i have been reading is what matters matters.
I will add a link to it later to share this information with everyone here. I think it is worth the read. I myself have to read it again just to make sure that what i wrote here is correct. It is a challenging read as it basicaly disproves or tries to disprove what people have been tought is wrong.
This may open up a can of Worms here. But then again; Healthy debates are always good.
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Originally Posted by RJohnston
You do NOT want to crop at 72 ppi (pixels per inch) for printing.
PPI is the resolution or the amount of detail in a picture. 72 is find for displaying an image on a website, etc... But for printing the results will not be so fine. Id use no less than 250 or 300 ppi for images which will be printed.
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