Help with submitting figures for publication

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I work in a research lab and I have been asked to properly format someone's figures for a manuscript he is getting published in a scientific journal.

Currently the figures are about 1107x1512 with a resolution of 150 (px/inch), greyscale.

The formatting specifications say that I need to have the dpi at 600, and depending on the size of the figure in the article (1 column, 1.5 column, full page), the measurement needs to be 20 picas for a single column size. Full sized TIFF format is fine.

I'm really not that familiar at all with this kind of thing. I know my way around Photoshop pretty well, but I've never had to do anything like this.

So, how exactly would I go about sizing these pictures properly? I've always had a hang up on understanding dpi, and it's relation to the image dimensions. Help?
 
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