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In an age where “Image is Everything”, there is an overflow of services that provide consumers with top quality, high resolution stock photos that can be used to promote your business. What happens when a designer needs images of the company’s product?

If your company is small to medium size with little or no budget to plan a professional photoshoot, you turn to your personal digital camera hoping to achieve an outstanding image quality – not considering what it takes to convert that image and prepare it for offset printing.

Although digital images might look great on a computer monitor, often the quality is poor when these images are reproduced on an offset printing press.

BargainPrinting.com comes across many clients on a daily basis that followed that path and we have been working with them to educate them about what it takes to get a digital image from an “1-shot” personal camera printed without compromizing quality, although we do not recommend that you follow this path.

To ensure that your photos are print quality, follow these guidelines for selecting a digital camera, choosing the proper settings, and handling image files. Keep in mind that images of conventional film camera properly scanned yield the best quality printed material followed by a “3-shot” professional digital cameras.

Choosing a Digital Camera

Newer multi-mega pixel cameras offer high enough resolution to preserve image quality in offset printing for most image sizes (except oversized posters). To take high quality pictures for print, you’ll need at least a 2-megapixel camera. A 2-megapixel camera has an image resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels. (By comparison, 35 mm film has an image resolution of about 3600 x 2500.)

Cameras with resolutions of only 1024 x 768 pixels or 1280 x 1024 pixels can be used, but such photos must be printed much smaller than images from higher resolution cameras.

Resolution Settings

Set your camera for the highest resolution possible. Many cameras have settings such as “Standard,” “Normal,” “High Quality” or “Super High Quality.” Check your manual to determine the specific resolutions these terms represent. Depending on your camera, the resolution settings could range from 72 dpi to 300 dpi. A 72 dpi image is fine for viewing on a computer monitor; 300 dpi is the resolution required if an image is headed for a printing press.

Another way to understand resolution is in its relationship to image size. If a 72 dpi image is 17.7 x 14.2 inches on your monitor, it will be just 4.3 x 3.4 inches when sized for printing at 300 dpi. So, if you submit a 72 dpi image to use in a publication, the largest size at which it can be printed will be about one-fourth of its original size.

Creative Tip: With digital photography it’s important to move in close to your subject. Trying to crop the important feature from an already small image further reduces the usability of the image.

Pre press Tip: Adjust your camera’s setting prior to taking the picture, rather than trying to fix it afterwards. The wrong camera settings might result in a large image with very low dpi.

File Type and Compression

Although the preferred image type for offset printing is TIF, we can also accept uncompressed JPEG type images.Avoid saving images as JPEGs if possible. JPEG is a compressed image format. Saving an image as a JPEG reduces the size of the file, which is convenient in terms of storage space. However, compressing also degrades the image. The more times you open a JPEG, make changes, and resave it as a JPEG, the more the image deteriorates. If you must use the JPEG file type, take photos at the highest possible resolution and then do not open your images or manipulate them in any way. Simply copy them to your computer (or a disk or CD) and then forward the files to our prepress department along with your layout files. (If corrections are needed, get them all done at once.)

A TIF file can be edited without losing data. Uncompressed PICT files and EPS files also are acceptable. Certain kinds of graphics cannot be used in the editing, typesetting and graphic design programs used to create files for an offset press. These include PowerPoint, Harvard Graphics, WordPerfect Graphics, Corel Presentation, etc. Never embed graphics in a manuscript file, such as a WordPerfect or Word document.

Admission to top U.S. colleges and universities has never been more difficult.

Harvard broke all records in 2008, accepting just 7.1 percent of applicants, while Yale accepted 8.3 percent, Columbia 10 percent, and Princeton 9.3 percent. Brown and Dartmouth accepted 13 percent and 13.2 percent, respectively. Williams, Bowdoin, Middlebury, and Amherst Colleges accepted 16.3 percent, 18.4 percent, 18.3 percent, and 14.2 respectively. Swarthmore College granted admission to a record-low 15 percent, while the University of Pennsylvania admitted 16.4 percent. Boston College admitted a record-low 26 percent of applicants, and Duke reported record selectivity admitting 19 percent. The overall Ivy acceptance rate this past year was 12% — again, an all time low. For students applying from India the odds are even lower.

With Harvard and Princeton dropping early decision/action and Harvard, Dartmouth, Swarthmore and Tufts announcing expansions of financial aid in recent months, the pool of applicants for the Ivy League and other top schools is overwhelmed with qualified students and as a consequence, this year was the lowest ever in terms of acceptances. We don’t see this trend changing any time soon with a population bubble increasing the number of teenagers and more and more highly credentialed students applying. This year there are 3.23 million graduating U.S. high school seniors, and 60-65% of them now apply to colleges. The swelling population of 18-year-olds will peak in 2009, when the largest group of high school seniors in the nation’s history, 3.2 million, are to graduate. The early application information is already in and applications are up by 40% at some top schools.

All is not lost, however. Qualified students from India are being sought out by top Ivy League colleges and universities. Yale recently announced that it is intensifying efforts to recruit Indian students and create more faculty and student exchanges, research partnerships and leadership education.

Each year, as America’s leading college admissions experts, we receive hundreds of emails a week from devastated high school seniors who did not receive the news they had hoped for in the college admissions journey. Many of them had high scores, great extras, and amazing grades. We also hear from younger high school students who are desperately seeking the secrets that will make them stand out amid the scores of other super qualified applicants. Our Application Boot Camp® workshops in Cambridge, Massachusetts (right next to Harvard University) fill up quickly with rising seniors who take part in our four day events to present themselves in the best possible light in their applications. The results for the students we’ve worked with have been astounding. But, we can’t work with everyone personally, so we created a product that duplicates what we do in the workshop — Application Boot Camp® Self Guided Program : www.ApplicationBootCamp.com/self. We made sure the product, including four audio tapes and a workbook, were available as an instant download for Indian students who are working on their January 1, 2009 U.S. applications. In fact, from now until January 1, 2009 we will give 10% off the price of this particular product. Just type in INDIA in the discount box.

We wanted to share our knowledge about what it takes to stand out and achieve success in the grueling Ivy League admissions process. We believe that knowledge is power! SO…to that end…to follow are some of our tips on what it takes to get into America’s top colleges. These coupled with a copy of Application Boot Camp® Self Guided Program should help qualified Indian students rise above the rest in the college admissions process:

1. Grades. This is one of the first areas a college admissions board will consider. Even if a student’s SAT scores are sky-high, high school grades, rank in class and rigor of courseload matter the most. A student who starts off strong but lets his grades lag in the final year, or vice versa, will have a hard time in the admissions process. Colleges want to see grades trend up in tough classes and students in the top 10% of their class. At Dartmouth College (one of the eight Ivy League schools) this year, for instance, 93.4 percent of accepted students ranked in the top 10 percent of their secondary school’s graduating class. Our students who have gotten into top colleges typically are A students who have taken 5-6 Advanced Placement classes.

2. Test scores. The SAT score is a big part of the admission’s picture because colleges report their freshman class averages to U.S. News and World Report. The biggest mistakes we see are students waiting until their senior year to take their first SAT test. Remember, colleges will see all of your SAT scores and will count the highest score in each section. So, begin early and take your first SAT in December or January of your junior year. That gives you time to retake it if you need to do so, with SAT preparation in-between. We don’t much like group SAT classes, but rather encourage students to work with someone who can teach you how to be a savvier test taker or to learn that skill yourself. We supply resources on our website including some amazing tutors who can work by phone even with international students.

3. Extracurricular activities. Don’t trust the lists of suggested extras that some college preparation sites offer. An admissions board will be much more impressed if you follow your passions and take them above and beyond. Show leadership and a theme. Use your summers to deepen that niche or themed interest.

4. Awards. Students who are talented, driven and dedicated will be seen favorably by college admissions boards. State, district or national awards in an area of expertise will set a student far apart from their competition.

5. Hooks. Sure, if you happen to be a legacy, recruited athlete, development case, famous person or have any other major ties to a particular college, leverage that hook!

While the Harvard acceptance rate and other Ivy League admissions rates are surprisingly low, it is by no means impossible to win a spot at one of these schools. For the exceptional student who works hard and prepares for college applications well in advance, an Ivy League education is still within reach.

Application Boot Camp® Founders:

Dr. Michele Hernandez and Mimi Doe are the founders of

Application Boot Camp® and award winning authors. Their work has been seen in all top American press including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Week Magazine, The Boston Globe, USA Today. Between them, they have appeared on all major television news programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Early Show, and Good Morning America. Michele Hernandez worked for four years as Assistant Dean of Admissions at Dartmouth College and attended Dartmouth. Mimi Doe has a Masters in Education from Harvard University.

Visit them for more tips on college admissions: http://www.ApplicationBootCamp.com