: Iphone photograph resolution suitable for 12" album cover? I'm hoping to use an image taken with an iPhone camera for a 12" vinyl record cover. The image is an uncompressed TIFF, taken with

@Vandalay110

300 dpi is what printers generally say to motivate clients to provide images in the highest resolution possible and avoid being liable for a print looking pixelated.
The image is certainly printed at a far lower resolution and downsampled. You will not see the difference between a source image at 300px/inch compared to a 240px/inch. 200px/inch will likely do as well.

If you're working with a small shop they will be able to tell you what is the printer's output resolution. But in most case the people you talk to don't even know what really happens in the shop. You'll end up by increasing the size of your picture which will then be reduced to fit the output settings. I would advice to just import the picture in the layout as it is and export the .pdf with your layout and the let them do their job.

I'm old school (or just old) and resolution really mattered in the 90's when films or prints were scanned to the printer' specs and according to the printing devive's output resolution.

But today you rarely have to scan, you just take pictures at the highest possible resolution and the printer will handle the downsampling without much loss. Your only limitation is the size of the final print when it's really huge or very finely printed. However most mid shelf cameras and an iphone 6 have enough resolution to print large billboards.

If you want to read on the topic here are two articles which explain resolution better than I could:
forums.adobe.com/thread/370714 https://99designs.com/designer-blog/2013/02/26/ppi-vs-dpi-whats-the-difference/

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@Deb5748823

Yes you can just bump up the image in PS a little, in my experience if the enlargement is up to only 20% more, you'd have to be a real image quality connoisseur to notice any loss.

Just remember to set the resampling mode to "Bicubic Smoother" like bellow, so you get the best results.



Of course it will never look like the photo was taken with pro camera but then the client should have the notion that a phone image would not get him a skin pores photo on a cover...

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@Eichhorn212

Assuming all is well technically with the image, most people won't notice such a difference. 12"x12" at 300DPI would be 3600x3600.

You can't just increase the size of the image in photoshop; that's not how this works. What you end up with is an image that is approximately 200DPI (2448/12"). While not ideal, it'll work and be okay.

What you can do if you're concerned is have the image printed at 12" high and see for yourself.

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