Scrapping at 200ppi instead of 300ppi ?

[wvasweetness]

Does anyone scrap in 200 ppi? Or have you ever? And if so, how does it look compared to 300?

I have several pics that I took on my iPhone that I would like to scrap with. I thought that if I bumped it down to 200ppi, designed in 8x8 instead of 12x12, and made the pics small it would work out ok... but I do everything in 300 (work and play/scrap), so I'm nervous about it.

Thoughts?

[Darcy Baldwin]

That will work just fine :) You might not be able to blow it up to a billboard to put on the highway - but if you're printing @ 8x8, and trying to preserve a memory with the quality photo you have, it will be just fine!

[Robin Carlton]

Yep! 200 will work just fine : )

[mummytothree]

deanna, i've gone as low as 150ppi and it's still look "good". Most all of my girl's baby and younger years photos are like 640x480 and only 72ppi (they are 11 and 7 years old) and there is no way i could scrap those at 300ppi. here is a recent page that was scrapped at 150 ppi

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/507/eam-float-web.jpg

ETA to add two more!!!

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/545/eam-color-7-20-09-web.jpg

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/500/eam-cookie-8-5-09----------.jpg

[jessica31876]

there was a certain store that sold their designs at 200ppi so I know it can be done. I have a book where they compare prints for 200ppi and 300ppi and it honestly does not look that different. I think it would be fine to do it.

[lauren grier]

none of my photos are 300 ppi out of the camera

[newfiemountiewife]

I had to print a couple of things in 200, since my pics were old and small, and that worked just fine!

[LenaGardner]

I wish I would have known this for Nathan's baby photos. I scrapped them at 300 ppi and they look kind of horrid!

[MamaBee]

huh... interesting... never thought about scrapping lower ppi with the photos that aren't up to snuff... thanks for the thread!

[Emmy]

I would just increase them in size in PS and scrap as usual.

[Stacey42]

The vast majority of my layouts are 12x12 at 200dpi. I started scrapping at DSP & that is their standard. Later, due to RAM issues I just resized the 300 stuff down to it because it made it easier & faster to scrap. Since I upgraded my RAM a year ago and would switch back & forth depending on how many layers or if it was a template. I then got a new laptop in Julyhave switched over to 300dpi permananetly. I have printed layouts of both sizes in 8x8 and 12x12 and see no difference in the quality.

[jannylynn]

I do it with the older pictures from my very first digi-cam. I printed at 8x8, 200 dpi and didn't notice the difference. I did notice a difference if I tried to enlarge the photo to fit 300 dpi. It was not good. The picture was blurry and pixelated.

[mpatry]

My computer runs way too slow if I scrap at 300 so if I'm doing a 12x12 page it's always at 200ppi. Only small things like 4x6 recipe cards do I scrap full 300 (because then it's so small it doesn't seem to slow things down then), and it keeps me from having to resize every element.