From the course: Processing Large Scale Black-and-White Photographs with Aperture
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Image conversion: Zebra at Lake Nakuru, Kenya
From the course: Processing Large Scale Black-and-White Photographs with Aperture
Image conversion: Zebra at Lake Nakuru, Kenya
This photo we'll be printed at a full 20 x 30 inches, well I guess it's 30 inches tall and 20 inches wide. And you can see over here that this one is already been scaled up to 54 megapixels. You may have also notice that this image has a white border on it already. So as per the previous video, I open this file into Photoshop and added the white border, but before that I had to crop it down to the exact right ratio to make sure that we end up with a final 6000 x 9000 pixel image. Again that's giving us 54 megapixels and that's giving us a 20 x 30 inch image at 300 dpi. Notice the file size on these does get quite large. This is a 16-bit file, so we're looking at over 800 MB just for this image alone. This file is also PSD file as we can see from up here in the top left. However, you may remember from the previous video, that when we're working with this image here we couldn't just open the original PSD file directly into Silver Efex Pro, because Aperture is treating as an external…
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