I'm trying to find the right resolution to share pics of my kids that will print well as a 4x6 at the local 1 hour photo places but not be so huge that they become a problem to email.
My current camera is 7.2 megapixel Sony. Although we occasionally run 8x10s I've been slowly lowering the resolution on the camera because we jsut can't store them all. So I need to go through all the photos, resize and organize those I want to keep forever.
THanks for your suggestions!
2006-10-12 04:10:19 · 4 answers · asked by L. J. 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
Go to a local 1-hour photo place and get them on a CD. I work in a photo lab. If oyu don't want to delete your pictures but want to same them forever, go to a Walgreens or CVS and put all you pictures on a CD. They last forever and you can delete them off your camera afterward. The CD allows you to use them as a slide show on your DVD player, you can put in your computer, or go back to the photo lab and reprint those pics.
It's only $2.99.
2006-10-12 04:15:06 · answer #1 · answered by Aaralyn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
printing at between 100 to 180 dpi is more than sufficient for 6x4. You should remember that the screen resolution is 72 DPI. So if you ike t on the screen (and the screen is larger than 6x4) then a picture of size (pixel width by pixwl height) between 600x400 to 1040x720 should do the trick. You say that your image is from a 7.2 Megapix camera so I would imagine that your image sizr is larger than 3096x2048.
Reduce the size but not the quality (fine is better than coarse).
2006-10-12 09:16:23 · answer #2 · answered by Rustom T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I keep my camera permanently set to the highest resolution. When I transfer pictures to my PC and review them, I usually find 1/3rd is garbage, which I delete, 1/3rd is okay snapshots, which I re-size to save file space, and 1/3rd is pretty good (if I do say so myself ;-) and I'm always glad I used 'best resolution'.
For emails, I reduce the size of pictures to under 200KB and save those files under new names.
For storage I use a large hard disk, and for back-ups I use an equally large external hard disk - they're pretty cheap these days.
2006-10-12 08:25:45 · answer #3 · answered by OMG, I ♥ PONIES!!1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need Picasa2 from google.com.
It's free and integrates really well with email.
When you select pics to be emailed, it will automatically downsize them for you. Try it... it's free. I also use the software with blogspot.com to post the pictures online. Again the software resizes the original for you on-the-fly.
2006-10-12 09:00:28 · answer #4 · answered by KrautRocket 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋