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![]() I'm new with diggys. I have a Panasonic FZ-5. And, we use Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0. We got our first prints back from Walmart the other day. They looked nice but we are not efficent. We did a ton of work in Adobe that i am not sure was necessary. Next time, i'm thinking of skipping Adobe, and taking a CD into walmarts printer/computer and making my edits on it. Even after the edits on Adobe - the gal that helped me at Walmart - changed many things. Otherwise, heads would have been chopped in half (ie. cropping). The cropping looked fine on our PC but she said something about resizing that happens when we put the CD into their printer/computer. Anyway, please look at my data taken from Adobe and let me know what is going on. My comments are in brackets below: HISTOGRAM: 4915200 PIXELS [what does this mean? Good or bad regarding the print quality i would get with a 4 x6 print?] When i CLICKED ON 'RESIZE' AND THEN CLICKED 'IMAGE SIZE' - it gave me the following info: PIXELS DIMENSIONS: 14.1 M [good? bad? what does this mean?] WIDTH: 2560 PIXELS HEIGHT: 1920 PIXELS [is the above the best settings i can have on my camera? therefore, this is a good reading?] DOCUMENT SIZE: WIDTH: 35.556 INCHES HEIGHT: 26.667 INCHES RESOLUTION: 72 PIXELS/INCH [why does it list the document size as sooooo big??? And, isn't a resolution of 72 very poor quality? The wife and I changed the width and height and resolution on all the above - we told it 4 x 6 with a resolution of 480. The prints looked good but it sure was a lot of work individually changing all of those settings - would they have printed out just as nice if we left it with the 72 pixels setting and the 35 x 26 h/w?] |
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Pay attention to the crop section of this
http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/howt...pselements.htm And I would say do not resize you can change the dpi to 250 to 300 but do not resample. and 14.1 is just what it should say ....here is a link as to how you change the resolution. This is in PS but should be very similar to elements This is a 72 dpi note the size ![]() This is 200 dpi again not the size ![]() 300 dpi note size ![]() You just change the dpi and do not resample then you can crop the photo to 4 X 6 or5 X 7 or whatever you wish. |
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Let me give you a couple links that explain this, I think..
My self I like to do the resize myself as I can get exactly what I want and its not difficult but would require a bit of concentration to get the concept ...then it will only take seconds to do, http://www.arraich.com/ref/resolution.htm And this is just elements scroll down to resize http://www.arraich.com/elements/pse_hhow1.htm#resize But if you feel comfortable doing it a Walmart, it is really the same thing. The question of why the large size is ...that is what the monitor can display 72dpi...but that has nothing to do with the way it prints unless you would force it to print that way. I am having a hard time explaining this but if you change the resolution to 300 it will still display the same on a monitor as72 is the best the monitor can display. |
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dwelsh7 - A friendly reminder when posting, its better if, whenyou use the quote reply to highlight what you're replying to,judiciously edit the quoted comments (in greyed box)and thenstart your comments outside of the greyed area (in black area just below the greyed quoted area). Otherwise, your reply gets lost inside the greyed quoted area and its hard to determine which were the original statements and which are your replies. Likewise, be sure to delete/edit any photo URL links as this will repost the image in the thread needlessly... Keep asking your questions- its likely others (such as myself) have thought the same thing... |
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That's an improvement w/the bolding. Keep in mind one doesn't always have to include the quoted statements.
To prevent your replies from being captured in the greyed area, when you hit quote, place your cursor within the greyed area, left click onceand use delete/backspace to remove the words not needed. Then place your cursor below the greyed area in the black area. You may need to scroll down to just where the greyed area ends and there's a small section of black showing - position your cursor on this black area and left-click once. Typing should begin in the black area... |
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OK. C how good i'm doing now!? ;-)
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Getting there... Now try quoting this message and posting your comments below the greyed quote area:idea:so your comments are on the black areas and you'll have it!
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