I want to get some decent prints of some of the shots that I have taken, but whenever I send them to a devleoper I am told that the resolution is too low and the photo will come out blurry. What can I do to change this? Is there anything? It especially happens when I do any kind of edit to my photos. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
more info please Missy. Are you shooting DSLR in the raw and converting to jpeg? What setting are you using your camera on? And what kind of examples can you tell us? Like, what size are the files straight out of the camera and what size files are they after conversion... and also how large a print do you want to make?
You're not sending them the files after uploading them here by any chance, are you? The ones that get uploaded to 365 get resized to 550px wide which is about two inches, printed.
@bobfoto Well, I am not very technical minded at all, but I will do my best to answer your questions. I appreciate you taking time to help. I am shooting with a Pentax P & S and I most always shoot in Auto. SOOC the file was 2.13 MB JPEG, then after editing the file size is 43.3 KB. I mainly want to print 5X7s and 8X10s. I hope that helps. Thanks!
I'm not a technical person either but I'm assuming that whatever program you're using to edit is reducing the size of your pictures drastically, which may be OK for the web, but not for printing. Always keep your original, unedited pics. I may be wrong, but I don't think there's anything you can do with those small jpegs. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
If you're saving them out at 43K, there's your problem. Check the options when you save them and make sure there's nothing on there set to resize them, because that's what's doing it.
@mariboo Missy are you using picnik? If so (I think it was) sometime last year they changed their settings where they reduced the quality, check in your settings and see if it says
"PRINT This keeps Picnik running briskly by resizing your photo to a little over 5 megapixels, optimized for high quality prints up to 8 x 10."
Not sure if it would reduce the photos file size that much but could be the problem.
@mariboo You could try setting it to archival and seeing if that works. Picnik says it slows down the page a bit but you should get full sized files. Hope that helps.
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What program are you using to edit?
"PRINT This keeps Picnik running briskly by resizing your photo to a little over 5 megapixels, optimized for high quality prints up to 8 x 10."
Not sure if it would reduce the photos file size that much but could be the problem.