| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 58596 | 2005-06-06 00:05:00 | Printing cropped photos | FoxyMX (5) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 361479 | 2005-06-06 00:05:00 | Last week I had my first batch of digital camera photos printed . The results were very pleasing and much better quality than I expected but I am wondering whether I could get even better results with the ones that I fiddled with . I wanted the subject to fill up the photo on a couple of the pics so they were cropped to 1280 x 960 from 2240 x 1488 . According to Frog Prints that size should produce a top quality 6 x 4" print . It is good but compared to the original print it is not quite as sharp . You do have to compare them side by side to notice this, however, but I am picky . :p The other thing I did, just for the heck of it, was crop a couple of images down to 800 x 600 then resized them up to 1280 x 960 . Both of them had lost their sharpness but one was more acceptable than the other . For all of the pics I saved them as Paintshop Pro ( . psp) files first, did the cropping then saved as . jpgs again with minimal compression . Could I have got better results doing things a different way? For the pics that were resized down to 800 x 600 then up to 1280 x 960 should I have just sent them as 800 x 600? How do you photo experts do it? PhotoShop probably does a better job than PSP at these things but I don't have that program . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 361480 | 2005-06-06 00:51:00 | it's silly resizing down then up again - you're losing all the real pixels & quality. resizing up is just interpolation - just like digital zoom. for printing leave the size etc as is. they are jpgs, can't be made better. if you want quality - shoot finest resolution, lowest compression jpg. you might even have tiff or raw - these are better - great for a4 or 8x10 size. i print my own photos, so don't have to worry about resizing or uploading. | quarry (252) | ||
| 361481 | 2005-06-06 04:18:00 | Hi Foxy, For your purpose, what you need is a slight crop to change the aspect ratio from the usual camera 4:3 ratio to the ratio of the print size selected. i.e 3:2 for 6x4" prints, (or different for other print sizes.) Doing this, and leaving them as jpegs will retain the most pixels, unless you do a severe crop. I came across an excellent free program to do this for almost every print size desired. It displays the crop frame in the correct aspect. The amount of crop can be varied, and it displays the resulting pixel size & the DPI. The output can be saved in a different folder to retain the originals. You'll see that only a very slight crop is needed for 6x4" prints. Do a google for JPEGCROPS. It's a small application (743kb) & it's free ! |
Bazza (407) | ||
| 361482 | 2005-06-06 04:53:00 | The long way: Crop Scan in with the highest dpi setting |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 361483 | 2005-06-06 05:01:00 | Just checked out JPEGCrops, wow cool program!! Tell us what you think Foxy |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 361484 | 2005-06-06 06:02:00 | Hi Foxy, For your purpose, what you need is a slight crop to change the aspect ratio from the usual camera 4:3 ratio to the ratio of the print size selected . i . e 3:2 for 6x4" prints, (or different for other print sizes . ) Doing this, and leaving them as jpegs will retain the most pixels, unless you do a severe crop . Hi Bazza :) Firstly, I understand what you are saying regarding the camera-print ratio but I may have been a bit misleading in my original post when I mentioned the 6 x 4 size . Frog Prints have an option for 6 x 4 . 5" prints so they were printed at the correct ratio . The cropping that I did was to make the main subject larger and do away with all the extra background that I didn't want rather than resize the images to correct the ratio . I came across an excellent free program to do this for almost every print size desired . It displays the crop frame in the correct aspect . The amount of crop can be varied, and it displays the resulting pixel size & the DPI . The output can be saved in a different folder to retain the originals . You'll see that only a very slight crop is needed for 6x4" prints . Do a google for JPEGCROPS . It's a small application (743kb) & it's free ! What a neat little program, it's marvellous! Thank you for letting me know about it . I should be sending away for another batch of photos soon so I will see if this program makes a difference to the end quality after cropping . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 361485 | 2005-06-06 06:07:00 | every time you edit/save a jpg file it compresses it (dumps data which equals detail) Just use a program that has an option to save as a lossless jpg. | Metla (12) | ||
| 361486 | 2005-06-06 06:07:00 | it's silly resizing down then up again - you're losing all the real pixels & quality. resizing up is just interpolation - just like digital zoom. for printing leave the size etc as is. they are jpgs, can't be made better. I know. I was just curious to see if I could get away with it and to see what the results would be like. I had nothing to lose and everything to gain so why not? :D if you want quality - shoot finest resolution, lowest compression jpg. you might even have tiff or raw - these are better - great for a4 or 8x10 size. i print my own photos, so don't have to worry about resizing or uploading.Shooting at the finest resolution and lowest compression is an absolute must for printouts. I have gone lower for both in order to get more pics on my memory card at times but had no intention of printing them so it didn't matter. If there is any chance the pics will be printed, however, you have to go for the best settings. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 361487 | 2005-06-06 06:10:00 | Scan in with the highest dpi settingCan you elaborate on that, please? Just checked out JPEGCrops, wow cool program!! Tell us what you think Foxy Just the cats' whiskers . :thumbs: |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 361488 | 2005-06-06 06:14:00 | Just use a program that has an option to save as a lossless jpg.JPEGCrops is one but do you have a recommendation? | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||