Question: Italian to English technical specs

[HesterF]

Hi All,

I recently did a spec shoot for an Italian magazine. My Italian friend was the author, and she tried to interpret the technical specs for the photos from the mag, but I'm still in the dark. Can anyone out there translate the following? (The technical aspects.)

"in bassa si riferisce alla risoluzione (probabilmente ti avrà mandato un jpg piccolo piccolo)
quindi il file deve essere 300dpi, - dove dpi sta per punti per pollice (in inglese ) ..che è una misura che si vede in photoshop o in un software di grafica qualsiasi.
ed essere almeno 1 o 2 mega (e questo lo sai pure tu che significa :-)
15 cm si riferisce al lato grande (ma non è una misura corretta, è meglio esprimersi in pixel) e pure questa misura qui la si vede in photoshop."

Thanks in advance for your help.

.hester.
Brooklyn, NY

[milosh]

Maybe we have some Italians here, but until then, here's what Google Translate says:

Low refers to the resolution (probably you will have sent a tiny little jpg)
then the file should be 300dpi - where dpi stands for dots per inch (in English) .. which is a measure that is seen in a photoshop or any graphics software.
and be at least 1 or 2 megs (and you know that that means you too :-)
15 cm refers to the large side (but is not a correct measure, it is best expressed in pixels) and also this measure is seen here in photoshop.

Google Translate.

[HesterF]

That's exactly what we thought, but felt it was misleading. In the end, I set everything to 300dpi and 15cm on one side.

Thanks for your input Milosh.