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I have tried this and I believe this is gonna work. My end result image size is around 5MB, so I am hoping this will work, since I have so many images. Much better than the previous way ending in 37MB per image. LOL! Thanks for everyones help!

The original image is 91dpi. I could not tell the difference between it and the 300dpi image.

LOL! Yeah, I will be careful!!

I just printed off one image in the size that it will show in my book, with the original lower resolution. Then I resampled the same image up to 300dpi and replaced it and re-printed. Honestly, I asked both my daughters which was clearer. One chose one, the other daughter chose the other. I honestly could not tell a difference. So I guess maybe I should just not worry about changing any of them. Because of them being images of older paintings, maybe it will be expected to not be crystal clear.

Yes, you are correct. The original paintings are over 100 years old, but there has been digital scanning or photographing of those paintings done as some point, which are lower resolutions. For me to look at them on my screen, I am satisfied with how they look. I was just trying to do what is recommended to make sure they print well. So you are saying you think it is best to just leave them alone? So should they come back close to what I am seeing on the screen in my document when I view at 100%? So resizing up to 300dpi could actually make the quality worse?

I have been resizing in Affinity Photo as such: Bicubic, 300dpi pixels, resample clicked on. Should I be resizing maybe with the resampling option clicked off? I absolutely do not want to make the quality of my image worse, however. That would defeat the whole purpose.

Okay, so you recommend each image is done separately, correct? If so, then how do I best resize in Affinity Photo and how come when I resize to 300dpi, it is showing as a different dpi once I replace the image in resource manager? Is that because my crop and filter is still applied after I replace? When I resize to 300dpi and DON'T change the measurements to inches, then my final resized images are like 9000x9000 pixels which is very large, but of course then the dpi is like 600 (which will resample back down to 300dpi in export), but I would rather not have 79 images that large in my document, if there is a way to resize, keep the 300dpi, without having such a huge image.

I would like to do what is recommended, because I would like the quality to be good. I do not know whether to expect any improvement or not with the resampling. I cannot tell a difference when I am looking at it on the screen, but I guess I was assuming I should do this because it will make a difference once printed. Just want to know the best way to do this and do it correctly.

Most of my images are low resolution due to being older pictures from over 100 years ago. The recommended requirements to print is to make your image 300dpi before placing them, is what I understand. I am wondering if there is a for sure way to do this during export, that has been tried and proven to work. When I resample my images through Affinity Photo, then replace it back into my document in the place of the old one through resource manager, it is not showing as 300dpi. Actually, when I at first tried to resize it through AP, without changing the inches, it made my images super large, like 9000x9000 pixels. So that is when I tried the method to put the actual inches with the 300dpi (saw this on an Affinity tutorial), but now it's still showing less than 300dpi.

Generally there is no gain in resampling up if images are initially low res. Some exotic tools can invent detail to images but that is still more like art than science. My images are digital images of very old paintings (over 100 years old), so the resolution is low for most. I have found the image with the highest possible resolution that I can. The reason I am trying to convert to 300 dpi is because I am publishing this book with these images on Amazon for print, and every where that I have read says that you need to place your images at 300dpi. Is that not necessary?

I am making a book with approximately 200 images or more. I am almost complete. I originally thought that since I chose 300 dpi at my document setup, that when I exported to PDF all my images would convert to 300dpi. I have been told now that resampling down to 300dpi during export only resamples down for images placed that are over 300dpi, and that my images that are under 300dpi need to be changed to 300dpi before placing. So I individually started opening my images in Affinity Photo and resizing. I have changed to 9.25in. height first, then changed to 300dpi, then went back and changed to pixels, then chose bicubic and left resampling checked. This changed the image to 300 dpi. Then I went back to Publisher and opened resource manager and replaced the low resolution image with the new 300dpi one, which exactly replaced it, leaving the crop and filter intact. After replacing, the image is now showing lower than the 300dpi. I assume because of the cropping and filters? So I don't know that any of these steps actually did me any good. I have around 80 or more images that are lower than 300dpi. Is there an easier way to convert all of them to 300 dpi in my document in Publisher? If not, is it okay that after the crop and filter, it is showing less than 300dpi. If that is okay, then is there even any point in me changing any of them to 300dpi? Thanks in advance for your help. It is a 6x9in book plus bleed, Greyscale.