Walmart pictures just arrived and they look.............

Bob S said:

Sandman said:

Jim

Mofongo said:

I have always used Qimage for printing at home which did all these
ppi changes. To properly resize do I first crop to 4x6 aspect ratio
than open up image> image size and uncheck resample image than
change the width and height to 6 and 4 and still leaving resample
unchecked hit O.K? When I do this the pixel dimensions stays the
same (2048x1365, after cropping) and the resolution now reads
341.25ppi and the height and width reads 4x6. This is with a 3.1 mp
digicam. Is this the correct way to do this? In the past I simply
cropped for 4x6 and sent the 72ppi file and they came out great.
Will I notice a difference by changing the ppi like above also?
Thanks alot for clearing this up for me...Bob

Brian said:

A resample on the other hand adds or subtracts pixels depending on
whether you are enlarging or shrinking. Resampling is typically
not needed to send a photo in for processessing.

John A. Dupre said:

I can understand wanting to crop to the proportions for the photo
size that you want but I still don't understand why you would want
to resize it. It seems that you would loose pixels that the
printing process would need. I'm actually very interested in this
because if it works just as well to resize it, then that is less
that you have to upload to their web site. You might want to send
one version that is just cropped to the 4x6 proportion and then
another one that is not only cropped but resized to 4x6 and see if
you can tell the difference between the two.

Just words for thought.

Thanks,
John A. Dupre, Jr
http://johnduprejr.com

Mitchel said:

Debbie,

I resized them to make sure I got exactly what I wanted in the
photo, 1600x1200 does NOT produce a true 6"x4" print, it produces a
6"x4.5" print, and I did not want Walmart to "guess" what I wanted
cutout.

I read somewere on this forum that it was best to send them EXACTLY
what you wanted, all I can say is they look GREAT!!!

Mitch

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Forrest said:

I guess I was misunderstanding you... Okay, I just send my files
to ezprints and get my pictures in the mail ( never touching the
density ), but here's my take:

If you have an image that's X by Y pixels and a request to print it
at 4 by 6, it's pretty easy to figure out how dense to make the
pixels. You don't need to be told how many ppi unless you're going
to intropelate the image ... if I asked for an 8x10 at 300 ppi from
my Uzi, for example.

I think some print drivers will resample your image on the fly like
this; be wary of them. I'm finding that it's perfectly valid (
and pleasing to the eye ) to blow a 2 mpx image up to 3200x2400 for
bigger prints, as long as the camera hasn't sharpened it, and you
didn't get too much noise ... enlarge it, sharpen it just right,
and it looks good. But I wouldn't do that to an image that's
already been sharpened.

So, to make a long story short, your image already has it's size,
you're specifying a print size, so as long as your system isn't
resampling for you, you don't have to change 72 to 150.

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Debbie said:

Mitchel said:

• Resized to 6 x 4.5 inches @266.67dpi (Resample Image is OFF, this

will allow the dpi to automatically increase)

• Cropped image to 6 x 4 inches

The next thing I want to do is send them some 5 x 7's and 8 x 10's
and see how they come out.

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I don't understand why you resized your pictures? I uploaded the
original size 1600x1200 to them and asked for 4x6's and they where
fine.

Debbie

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Brian said:

doh!!! Did I say add a few pounds? I guess resampling in the Y
isn't a good idea.

JD said:

Mitchel said:

GREAT!!!!

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