A Question please

[Mups]

To enter a photographic competition,  they have stated the pictures have to be - 'Landscape',  and also  a minimum of 300 dpi  or 1 mb.

Can anyone please tell me what size  -  IN INCHES -  300 dpi or 1mb  is?   
Also,  what is meant by  'landscape?'


I do wish these people would talk in amateur language, we're not all professionals! 

Thankyou.  

[JBR]

To enter a photographic competition,  they have stated the pictures have to be - 'Landscape',  and also  a minimum of 300 dpi  or 1 mb.

Can anyone please tell me what size  -  IN INCHES -  300 dpi or 1mb  is?   
Also,  what is meant by  'landscape?'


I do wish these people would talk in amateur language, we're not all professionals!

Thankyou. 

300dpi and 1mb are measures of the quality of detail of the picture.  The size doesn't matter.  Dots Per Inch measures how small details are shown and megabytes is how many 'dots' there are!  Sorry.  I wouldn't know how to measure them on any picture anyway!

Landscape means the width must be larger than the height, though they haven't mentioned anything about the proportion.

[klondike]

You can see the size in file explorer so MB is easy. It's also pretty meaningless as the pictures downloaded from a camera usually only have minimal compression. Pictures can usually be compressed substantially with minimal loss of actual quality.

If they are mentioning DPI they must want them to be printed as it is meaningless otherwise. You can set it to what you like when you print it. There is usually little point in going more than 200dpi for a colour print anyway.

Those requirements can be met with an awful quality picture or a visually good picture may not meet them. In short whoever set the standards is no professional.

[Mups]

Thankyou JBR and Klondike.

Sounds too complicated for me,  so unfortunately I will have to give it a miss,  but thanks again for replying.

[klondike]

Just send whatever you have in. If it breaks their rules they'll disqualify it. Or not because with a print they have no idea what the file size was. With the file it is likely going to be over the 1MB if direct from a modern phone or camera and the DPI is irrelevant because that is what they set it to. I'm doubting that you are going to be editing the picture because it you were then you'd probably know what that stuff means.

[Mups]

The photos are for a Christmas calendar, Klondie.

I tried to enter last year but they said my pictures weren't the right size and disqualified them.
This is why I was trying to get it right this year,  but its more complicated than I thought and I haven't got anyone to show me.
Thanks for trying to help though.

[klondike]

Do you send in the files or prints

Have they specified anything in addition to 1MB and 300dpi.

[Ashy]

Just as an aside, if you use PantNET, a free editor for Windows, you can easily resize your picture or crop a portion of it. When you resize a picture the editor tells you what size it is before you change it. 

In photography, crop used to be called "selective" print or enlargement. 

A postcard is 5.8 inch by 4.1 which is 1.4:1.

[Mups]

Do you send in the files or prints

Have they specified anything in addition to 1MB and 300dpi.

This is all it says Klondie -  

 "Photos will need to be high resolution (minimum 300 dpi or at least 1MB file size)  and Landscape format."

[klondike]

Ok.  Files or prints? What camera produced them originally?

[Mups]

My old camera conked out ages back,  so I have been using my phone lately.  

I haven't taken any pics for this year's  competition yet,  because I didn't understand what they meant about all this sizing malarky.

Don't worry Klondie,  I'm not going to be able to do this because I am so bad with anything technical,  I am feeling its more worry than its worth.
Thank you so much for trying though.  

[klondike]

It's no problem. Most competition winners will have had extensive editing before they are sent in anyway I expect.