Hi, I want to save my photos onto CD. I want to rotate them all so I they are all vertical. Will this spoil the quality if I want reprints later? I though I'd read somewhere that if you rotate a photo it might spoil the printing quality? (I hope this makes sense?) Thank you in advance :o)
2007-09-27 03:09:31 · 5 answers · asked by dz_doris 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
P.S. The reason I am asking is I have a DVD player that you can view photo files on. I wanted them all vertical so we can view them without having to twist our necks. Should I do one copy for viewing and a separate copy for reprinting?? Thank you so much :o)
2007-09-27 05:49:06 · update #1
If you rotate in increments of 90 (90, 180, 270) degrees, there should be no degradation of the image. Doing this merely rotates each pixel 90 degrees, and, since pixels are square, there are no other changes.
Rotating images in any other increments causes the software to "guess" at where each pixel should be to retain the image. The results may not always reflect, exactly, the accuracy of the image. The higher the resolution, the less of a problem.
Later, when printing, the printer doesn't care if the image is rotated. It is merely converting pixels to dots of ink.
2007-09-27 07:51:49 · answer #1 · answered by Vince M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends whether the pictures are saved as jpgs or as tiffs. There is always a slight loss of quality when you open and close a jpg (but so little as not really to be noticeable). There is no loss with tiffs. However, I have save and rotated literally 100s of photographs (jpgs) since I started taking digital pictures 8 years ago. I would save them in the right orientation.
2007-09-27 03:45:12 · answer #2 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fhotoace is correct. I'd just like to add, that depending on the camera you are using, some of them have orientation markers in their EXIF data.
There are imaging programs like Photoshop and ACDSee Photomanager that read this data and orient the pictures correctly without having to resave. They also know the correct orientation to print at if printing from home.
I'd say, leave the images as they are for the originals and then copy the file to your computer later and change the orientation that way if you have to.
2007-09-27 04:22:57 · answer #3 · answered by gryphon1911 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For safety I always KEEP THE ORIGINALS and copy them across to work on them then if it all goes pear shaped I can start again. Belt and braces stuff!
RoyS
2007-09-28 03:57:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no as far as i have taken printouts no loss of quality,use nero to write in a cd,.
2007-09-27 03:19:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋