@ewen Thanks for sharing your fabulous work Ewen. May I pick your brains? It's about file sizes - as you know, I'm planning to create a #MonochromeMarch e-zine in PDF format and a lot of the photos being posted are tiny files, many less than 1MB. What would you say is the minimum size you could get away with for an e-zine? I'm used to producing my own printed zines so I'm always aware of resolution, but this is my first e-zine so, are file sizes less critical? TIA, Steven

@StevenLawsonPhotography

:) Thanks for the lovely words Steven.

I think there's a lot of flexibility when it comes to viewing a digital document. 1MB of jpg goes a very long way. And it's not as if images need to be perfect. You're making a zine, not a documentary.

I seriously wouldn't worry about this at all.

Think about an A4 page, folded in half. Even a 1920px wide image is going to look OK set into half of an A4.

An A4 page is a good starting point for this project. And don't be tempted to fill every cm of the page. Leave space. Leave room to enjoy the photos.

So think you'll be fine. I export out with 87% compression on the JPGs, but always strict on reducing DPI to 144 max. Nice to have double the standard screen res (72dpi) for those with a retina display (macs). All this can be encoded into your export settings when you generate the PDF.

Some images you receive may turn out to be much lower resolution. But don't sweat it.