Frustrated and need serious help

[Croak17]

I am trying to upload layouts to an online site that will print photobooks. However, no matter what I've tried when I zoom in on my page the whole thing is blurry.

I origionally made the layout 3600x3600 300 dpi, but thought maybe it was jpg compression causing the blur. So I changed to 2400 x 2400 at 300 dpi and that makes it blurry as well. I tried 2400x2400 at 200 dpi and that still uploads as fuzzy. (all these different tries were experimental layouts, so it wasn't the same one resizing over and over)

I know it's my pages b/c the other pages I put together using the site are crystal clear. I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong and it's making me crazy.

Can anyone offer any help at all???

[6poptarts]

i wish i could help you!!!! how frustrating. i will follow this b/c i too am going to try to create a book online. good luck and i'm sure some sweetheart will have an answer soon!!!

[mommabyrd2003]

I scrap @ 12*12 200DPI.

I merge all visible layers and resize my LO to 72DPI for web viewing. Any higher resolution for web viewing will not yield good results because the default DPI for web design is 72dpi.

When I send my files to the print company I use I zip them and send the zip file, so I don't have to sacrifice quality through resizing and compression.

Hope this helps.

[luvglobes]

Thanks for the info, I was wondering the same thing?
By the way, I LOVE LOVE your avatar doggies! May I ask where you got them?