What do I do with these files?

[RonG]

My suggestion is batch convert and save but use 72 dpi which should result in a jpg that is around 3-4mb in size. 72dpi will make a nice 8x10 easily. I'm assuming that you are saving your original files to cd or dvd.

[Stephen Probert]

72dpi will make a nice 8x10 easily

this statement is confusing. 72 dpi will look fine as an 8x10 image on a computer screen, but printed 72 dpi would look horrible. Prints should be made at at least 300 dpi. I would much rather throw in compression than throw out pixels. The issue is that with a quality of 10 in DPP (max) you get a 9 Mb file. A jpeg quality of 8 will produce almost the exact image as 10 without losing pixels.

[RonG]

all I can say is from my personal printing of images exactly as I've described there is very little difference between 72dpi and 300dpi on an 8x10 image.

[Jon Ruyle]

Daniel, Ron:


Thanks for your suggestions. I never use zoom... thought it was useless, so I forgot all about it. Seems I was wrong. []

[Colin]

Do you guys resize images larger to make prints?





So far, I've just used DPP to do the printing, setup the printer, and have DPPdetermine the sizing of the image on the print area, and that seems to work rather well. I haven't seen any pixels I can discern. I don't usually print much more than 10"x15", or what not... Unless they're prints of the Teletubbies or Barney, but that's for the kids' bow target practice []


I can see pixels there, but those are really low resolution images 'borrowed' from the web.