Developing Pictures Best Way

[DaveMac]

I have Sony pictures taken on a digital camera in 1600X1200 res. I want to get real pictures from these. I tried my Stylus at 1440 X 1440 but that is no where near even on good paper. My question is 1) What is the best file type for these: They are currently .jpeg(I have Corel Draw 10) 2) Does anyone have a photo processing company that they can recommend? I would like to have them developed on regular photo paper.

Thanks,
David

 

[jcb5565]

Save the photo as a Tif. It will take up a lot of mg but you picture will be much better.

 

[Bananas]

Most cameras store their pics in JPEG format which is lossy so you are going to lose some quality straight away. All you can do is take the pictures on the cameras best setting (usually called Fine), you will get less pictures on the storage card but that's all you can do.
The next thing is resolution: Your camera's highest number of pixels is 1600 x 1200 so if we assume a resolution of 200dpi to get a decent quality image then you would get an image that is 8inch x 6inch at 200dpi, the smaller you make the image the higher resolution you will get because those 1600 x 1200 pixels will be squeezed into a smaller area.
Finally, printing them out. Is it an Epson printer you have, I assume it is, so buy some of the Epson Photo Paper and print out on that at the highest settings on the printer. The Epson Photo Paper is available in A4, A3 and 6" x 4" format, make sure you select "Photo Paper" in the printer dialog box and print at 1440dpi setting.

HTH Joe Bananas

http://www.therealperth.com

An independent guide to Perth, Scotland

 

[Bananas]

Forgot to add:

You could save them in TIF format but it wouldn't really make much difference unless you are editing them in some way. Each time you save a JPEG Image you are losing some quality each time you save, so you could save as TIF if you plan to play around with the image a lot. If you are just taking the picture and printing it out "as is" then saving as a TIF won't help much - you would just be creating a TIF image of the already compressed JPEG Image. Joe Bananas

http://www.therealperth.com

An independent guide to Perth, Scotland