LOL - trade you some photo lessons for photoshop lessons. I don't know what any of those settings are on my camera.
well, I know, but making them work for me is another story... al On Sep 16, 2011, at 9:21 AM, PAUL W WATSON wrote:
Dr. Z.Everything Ray, Big Al and Richard said is all Greek to me. I told you I was the Photoshop idiot.P Subject: [ratpack] Re: Photoshop and printers... From: muttley128@xxxxxxxxxxx Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:37:43 -0600 To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxBicubic enlargement 110 percent at a time will blow it up larger with pretty good results. Better than just changing the size or you can get a program called genuine fractals and blow it up extremely large with good results. Hopefully It does not have jpeg artifacts. (blocks). 5 megapixels should give you enough to get a print out of it.Sent from my iPhoneOn Sep 15, 2011, at 9:59 PM, Michael Wells <mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Aleta,Here's one of the originals, let me see what you can do, this of course is just a copy so go crazy.Dr ZOn Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Aleta Boyce <alboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ok, I finally backtracked all the message and I think I've caught up with the PHotoshop conversation - sorry, but I've been gone for a few days. Most printers will only print at about 150 dpi - any more than that is probably a waste unless you have a pretty high-end printer. Also, you want to check the saturation and levels if you have photoshop - You don't want the levels of black or white to start just anywhere; they need to start at the very edges of your graph, if possible, to get the best blacks especially. If it's printing all grainy it could be the resolution is too low - 72 is too low - so when you take it to photoshop or any good viewer you should be able to check the maximum size and resolution and make adjustments, but if you can't, send it on and I'll be glad to do it and/or walk you through it by email.If no one else wants to see that conversation I can send it direct.Also, every monitor is different, so it may look great on a monitor and crappy in print. That's normal - you have to calibrate (which might help) and adjust prints to the paper and printer you're using. The printer settings are at least half the battle.Did I rave on too much? I never know... al -- Dr. Z aka Michael Wells MCWells Photography mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx 801-850-7279 <IMG_0478.jpg>
