Digital Image Quality: High Resolution

Digital photos should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi (dots or pixels per inch) at 4×6 inches or larger. Many digital photos sent to Horse Illustrated are low resolution (72 dpi) and cannot be used. A low-resolution photo may look fine on your computer screen, but it won’t reproduce well on a magazine page.

To capture a digital images at the appropriate resolution, you must use at least a 3.2 megapixel camera with the resolution set on large and the compression or quality set on superfine. Taking a photo at low resolution and then increasing the file size in a photo-management program, such as PhotoShop won’t work: the photos must actually be shot at the highest resolution.

We can work from JPEG or TIFF files; bitmap (.bmp) files are not usable in print for the magazine.