Digital Photographs

Making Fujix - From Tiffs (Photoshop)

• Scanned Photographs or Films
• Video Frames
• Electronic/Digital Photographs
• Quantitative Images (Phosphorimager, Fluorimager, Confocal Microscope, etc.)

Formatted as TIFF files, such images may be easily output directly onto digital photo paper via Media Services' Fujix Pictrography 3000 digital photo printer. The cost, listed on our ratesheet, is payable by cash, credit card, check or by authorized charge to a valid NYUMC account.

Getting Photoshop on Campus

Skirball Institute faculty and staff will find Photoshop already installed on their computers.

Those in the NYU Medical Center follow the instructions found after clicking here.

Bitmaps and the Fujix Pictrography 3000

Any bitmap image which can be saved in RGB or greyscale TIFF format can be used to generate a print at the Digital Media Center.

Remember that the Pictrography digital photo printer records images at a density of 400 pixels per inch: bitmap images will be printed at this resolution.

To determine the dimensions to which your TIFF file will default on the Fujix Pictrography, open the Image Size dialog under the Image menu item, deselect the Resample Image check box and enter the number 400 in the Resolution text box.

The width and height will change to indicate the dimensions of your image as it will be printed. You do not need to save these changes to the Photoshop file.

If the image dimensions are smaller or larger than you wish, or if you need to have the image output at a specific size, indicate this to Media Services when ordering your prints.

Submitting files for imaging.

Enter a file name of the form "lastname.image.tif" where "lastname" is your last name; "image" is a short term enabling you to distinguish one file from another and "tif" denotes to our staff your file is bitmap format.

File names must be less than 27 characters long and contain no spaces or non-alphabetic characters such as slashes,colons, parentheses, etc.

Submit your file for imaging. Send your presentation to the makefujix directory using Media Services' File Upload followed by an email (media@med.nyu.edu) detailing the size, quantity and payment method.

If you are a member of the Skirball Institute using a Macintosh computer, log on to Saturn, the institute file server, and mount the volume "DMC"; it contains a folder named "makefujix". Copy your file to this directory followed by an email (media@med.nyu.edu) detailing the size, quantity and payment method.

Bitmap Precautions

• All images MUST be full RGB files; greyscale and indexed-color files MUST be converted to RGB format before submission.
• Remember that any text or other annotation introduced into a bitmap becomes a permanent part of the image, and assumes the resolution of the underlying image.
• To make complex composite figures use a layout program such as InDesign or a drawing program such as Freehand instead of Photoshop.