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Clicking on any thumbnail will take you to a 300 dpi version of the paper doll pages, 3000 x 4000 pixels. At actual size on a large format printer, they will print at 10 inches wide by 13 1/3 inches tall, which is the size of the original magazine pages. If you choose "Fit to Page" on letter-sized paper, they will have an effective output resolution of 364 dpi. (For comparison, using Fit to Page on the 150 dpi versions yields an effective output resolution of 182 dpi.) These very high-res versions are not linked to the main web pages, because they take longer to download, longer to print, and consume more disk space, and for printing on letter-sized paper they are virtually indistinguishable from the 150 dpi, 1181 x 1575 pixel versions. The 300 dpi versions range from 2.9MB to 9.8MB, with most being in the 5MB to 7.5MB range. The 150 dpi versions are about 1/10 that file size, with most files being about 550K to 700K. So if you are planning on printing full pages on letter-sized paper, then I would recommend you first download just one of the magazine pages at both sizes, and make a sample print to compare the 150 dpi and 300 dpi versions on your printer. If they look nearly the same, then you might as well print the 150 dpi versions, and save yourself time and disk space. |
The 300 dpi versions are useful when you want to print enlargments, either because you have a large-format photo printer that can output on tabloid-sized paper or larger, or because you are planning to print individual outfits and dolls on letter-sized paper. If you are planning the latter, one very easy method is to start with blank white background pages in Photoshop or some other image editing program at 200 dpi, and then simply copy-paste portions of the 300 dpi pages onto those blank files. This will have the effect of enlarging the images by 150%, but you won't have to go through any explicit enlargement step; the copy-paste will just do it for you. (The 300 pixels that take up one inch in the 300 dpi file will occupy 1.5 inches in the 200 dpi file.) At this enlargement factor, the dolls end up about 9 inches tall, so that you can fit two of them on a portrait orientation letter-sized page. Most of the dresses end up about 5 inches tall. I do think this size is more play-friendly, but it is more work. Maybe some day I will go through that relayout step, like I did for the Little Kiddles and Ginghams paper dolls. |
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There was no Betsy McCall page in the April 1961 magazine. The May 1961 page is the last one featured on my web site. At right is the 300 dpi version of the St. Patrick's Day Bonus Paper Doll that I made in 2005. |
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