Funeral program photo size and resolution

A funeral program needs a photograph at a size the printer can use. Resolution is the other half of that request. At 300 dots per inch, a 4×6 inch photo is 1,200 × 1,800 pixels. That is a common print to tuck into a program or to hand a shop that asked for a 4×6.

What Tribute Portrait prepares

Print files are built at 300 pixels per inch, with 0.125 inch of bleed on every side and crop marks. A program cover is often a letter sheet folded in half, so the portrait area is about 5.5 by 8.5 inches. The other cover sizes are 7×8.5 and a full 8.5×11. You can also type a custom size, including 4×6, when the template is not one of those three.

Order the PDF if the shop trims to the crop marks. Order the JPG if they place the picture in their own layout. Both are the same crop. The file does not add the person’s name, the dates, or a verse. Those are set in the program, in type.

Which photograph fits a tall cover

A photo that is already a vertical portrait crops more kindly than a wide group picture. Start with the clearest photograph of the person. If other people are in the frame, crop to the person before you upload. The restoration keeps the photograph you give it.

Look at the face at the size it will be printed. If the eyes and the mouth are only a few dozen pixels, restoration cannot recover detail that was never there. A different photograph is the better choice, even if it is less recent.

A plain studio background is calm on a program, and it can remove objects at the edges. Keep the original background when a kitchen, a boat, or a uniform is part of the memory. The memorial portrait includes every program size from that one restoration, along with the easel and the obituary. Easel sizes are a separate note: Funeral easel photo sizes.