Re: Slugger pic

Well, I can change the resolution to 300 dpi, but I think that would just
fill in with similar dots.  couldn't hurt to try.
I have a color printer, but having been in the photo business for 14 yrs, I
can see the difference good photo processing can produce compared to my 6 yr
old printer.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Slugger pic


> You're welcome, Kitty.  Well 1600 x 1200 pixels will give you an
> 8x10.  The 72 pixels per inch probably won't  produce a really sharp
> image in print format.  You can convert the .jpg to .tif but it won't
> produce any added data in the file - it decompresses it, but doesn't
> add anything, if that makes any sense....the number of pixels per
> inch is what you've got to work with.  I find with my digi camera
> images that I can't improve them dramatically because they were
> originally compressed files at that low resolution and there simply
> isn't enough data there to work with.   Part of that is the ability
> of my older camera in the first place.  Newer cameras shoot at higher
> megapixels to start with.
>
> I take it you don't have a color printer to print out your own pix?
> You might want to talk to the photo lab and see what they think about
> the resolution of the original image re: the quality of final output.
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@hort.net
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> > From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> > Marge, Thanks for the info
> > I reduced the scale of the original photo so I could post a
> reasonably sized
> > file for viewing.
> > The original is a jpg - which is all my camera will do - but it is
> 1600 x
> > 1200 pixels, 24 bits per pixel, 387kb.  It took me awhile to find a
> program
> > on my computer that would tell me its resolution, but eventually
> found that
> > it is indeed 72 dpi.
> >
> > For file sharing I do use jpg or gif and for printing, usually tif
> images.
> > I had intended to convert the original jpg file to a tif as an
> additional
> > file so that the photolab would have a choice if they preferred
> certain
> > types of images for printing, though I don't know whether the
> conversion
> > would have any adverse affect.  Changing the 387kb jpg to a tif
> creates a
> > larger file:  5,635 kb, also 72 dpi.
> >
> > Kitty
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