01-22-2023, 09:30 PM
(01-20-2023, 06:49 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Ofnuts information is all you need to know but sometimes not so easy for a beginner to understand.
During covid lockdown I was making bespoke birthday cards, great fun, but my stock of nice old A4 satin paper is running low.
The main thing is to start off with a a suitable resolution before you even create a design.
For 5 inches x 5 inches use 300 ppi That equals an image size of (5 x 300) 1500 x 1500 pixels.
( but you might need to take any printer imposed margins into account )
Smaller than that and quality will suffer. Bigger you will be ok All will print the same size.
Positioning the photo layer correctly is proving difficult, in terms of getting it to align properly, the printer imposed margins may play a part as you say, and that's a whole new nut to crack . Who knew this would be so difficult?! I've made some cards before by cutting out the image and sticking it on to the card and that's ok really, but I'd like to crack this. Doesn't help that I have to set it as custom paper size via the printer driver settings and they show up in cm at the point of printing even though I entered them in inches, and they don't look right. All rather confusing, and that's before I start thinking about text and a logo. Thanks for you help Rich2005