So I don’t know a whole lot about printing, but I have read that you should export for printing at 300 ppi resolution. When I did this the photo I was exporting went haywire. It cropped my photo cutting a lot off, and it turned SO pixelated. When I took it back to the original 72 ppi it looks significantly better. This print is going to be 27in by 39in. Which at the 72 ppi it’s still pixelated enough that I don’t love it but it’s nowhere as bad as it was at the 300. What am I doing wrong? What’s a way to clear the pixelation on the print?
Nope!
You started out fine, but like so many other people, you’re equating DPI and PPI, and calling them the same thing. DPI is purely physical, for printing, and PPI is purely digital, for viewing. There is ZERO overlap between the two.
There isn’t zero overlap , a pixel will be converted to a dot.
Making that statement makes it easier for people to grasp the concept, and does zero damage.