I am a rookie when it comes to photography in every realm. One of my friends suggested I start using Picasa to organize my photos. I like it b/c of all the changes I can make to photos easily. Anyway, I started downloading to Picasa straight from my camera several months ago. I just went to make a Shutterfly album last week and I wasn't able to use any photos as 8X10 size or larger in the album b/c it said the image would come out blurry. Also, I recently tried to order a poster size photo with one of my images out of Picasa and it gave the same message saying not to use it b/c it would come out blurry. When I go back to older photos that I downloaded into my Nikon program first but are also now loaded into Picasa they are able to be used in these bigger sizes in Shutterfly albums and for poster sizes. So...am I able to convert these photos that were downloaded into Picasa first into a larger size so that I can order them bigger??? HELP!!! I am so bummed & clueless.
Thanks so much,
Susan
Yes, Picassa compresses photos. It'll even look for photos on your computer and add them to Picassa and then compress them. Picassa is evil. I don't think that there is a way to get the photos at the original size unless they are still on a card somewhere.
@spagel
Oh dear, that sucks!! I recently found out that picmonkey shrinks the photos as well even if uploaded at the highest setting and saved at the highest setting. You only realised this when I wanted to print them out in a larger format. Ipiccy doesn't do this and can be saved larger. Nothing turns a low resolution photo into a high one with good results though. :(
@amandalomonaco I am so bummed Amanda...they should post that somewhere in bold print!!! So I should be fine if I download with Nikon software and then it goes in PIcasa right? Makes me want to cuss!
@5unflow3r Of course and I do it all the time but I compared the same crop and final save in picmonkey and ipiccy and the difference in final resolution was significant.
I am assuming picmonkey actually resizes as it uploads. I'm not sure if ipiccy does, I will have to compare it to something like photshop to test that.
@5unflow3r I know, I was using the highest save. I wish there was a full resolution save though.... photos lose a lot of resolution in picmonkey, I found this out when printing out a poster, the original one was big enough, the edited one wasnt. I guess I'm just saying ipiccy doesnt lose as much especially when saved as a .png file
Picasa doesn't shrink the photos it holds on your PC.
When you email or share you can choose the option to resize - that would shrink the file.
Have you changed any setting on the camera?
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Oh dear, that sucks!! I recently found out that picmonkey shrinks the photos as well even if uploaded at the highest setting and saved at the highest setting. You only realised this when I wanted to print them out in a larger format. Ipiccy doesn't do this and can be saved larger. Nothing turns a low resolution photo into a high one with good results though. :(
I am assuming picmonkey actually resizes as it uploads. I'm not sure if ipiccy does, I will have to compare it to something like photshop to test that.
When you email or share you can choose the option to resize - that would shrink the file.
Have you changed any setting on the camera?