GCU Forum - Change to image requirements?

Corrie_131338 Gold Member Posts: 1610	Change to image requirements? Aug 30^th, 2007, 11:54pm Hi there! Suddenly today, we see the image requirements on the "Create a Card" page have changed from 2100x1500 to 900x1260, and the dpi has changed from 300dpi to 180 dpi. Is this a glitch? Corrie http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/corrieweb http://www.corrieweb.nl
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Mariana_131409 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 46	Re: Change to image requirements? Reply #1 - Aug 31^st, 2007, 12:14am hmmmm and my last card is now set to 1006w x 1641h though still at 300 dpi ...
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Lisa_131794 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 39	Re: Change to image requirements? Reply #2 - Aug 31^st, 2007, 1:01am Oh No....man..I hope we dont have to chnage all our cards and enter them again.
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Shaun_131054

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Re: Change to image requirements?
Reply #3 - Sep 4^th, 2007, 4:47pm

Hi Everyone,
No need to be alarmed by the changes to the image requirements.

We had posted the minimum requirements (1260x900 pixels at 180dpi), but this lead to a bit of confusion so we made a few changes today that should make things clear.

We still recommend that your images are 2100x1500 pixels at 300dpi.

If you have any questions, please let us know.

Shaun

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Kathy_131728

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Re: Change to image requirements?
Reply #4 - Sep 5^th, 2007, 12:04pm

I have a question about some images I uploaded. My images were too large as 5x7 at best quality to upload, so I resized them to 4x6. Will these print fine on your printer as 5x7 when they were loaded as 4x6? In the future I will just reduce the quality and send 5x7, but I need to know if I need to reload the existing 4x6's I have loaded. Thanks.
Kathy
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Shaun_131054

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Re: Change to image requirements?
Reply #5 - Sep 5^th, 2007, 3:53pm

Quote from Kathy_131728 on Sep 5^th, 2007, 12:04pm:

I have a question about some images I uploaded. My images were too large as 5x7 at best quality to upload, so I resized them to 4x6. Will these print fine on your printer as 5x7 when they were loaded as 4x6? In the future I will just reduce the quality and send 5x7, but I need to know if I need to reload the existing 4x6's I have loaded. Thanks.
Kathy
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Hi Kathy,
Our recommendation would be to replace the 4x6 images with 5x7 images, as there's a chance that your images may print with white space along the sides. You may need to reduce the dpi to 200 (1400x1000 pixels), to keep the image under 3.85 MB.

I've sent you an email with a few additional suggestions.

Shaun

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Kathy_131728 Gold Member artist Posts: 610	Re: Change to image requirements? Reply #6 - Sep 5^th, 2007, 6:20pm Thanks. I only have 8 cards that were 4x6, so I will make them 5x7 tomorrow and I may order a couple to make sure that the change went smoothly. In the future, I will always do 5x7. Kathy
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