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Printing/cropping-correct resolution


Some of my shots look great on the monitor screen, but after I crop and edit, then select a print size, the resulting print is not anywhere near the quality on the screen. I know it has to do with changing the size of the image, and not changingthe pixels accordingly. Is there a formula? I shoot with Coolpix 950, usually at highest res (not TIFF), and edit with Adobe PhotoDeluxe 2.0 or Photoshop 5.0 Ltd Edition.


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December 01, 1999

 

Rafi Cohen
  You have to go to the printer's setups and change them to print in photo quality - every printer has it's own software and setup: you get to it via the first screen after you send the photo to print: don't click "okay" but open the setup. Of course you have to use special paper, called photo paper for inkjets or so, Glossy photo paper for... BTW, you can always resize the photo before printing to exactly what you want. I use the same softwares as you are, with the Coolpix 950 - and the photos I got from it are magnificent - as though a professional photographer took them in studio. Now I have another problem: conventional prints I try to scan and print at home are a lot inferior to the prints from the CP... I'm still wondering how to catch the quality I get with the CP...


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August 22, 2000

 
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