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| Thread ID: 47899 | 2004-08-08 10:57:00 | Irfanview - photos appearing grainy | caffy (2665) | Press F1 |
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| 259609 | 2004-08-08 10:57:00 | Hey, Before, if I made a photo smaller, from 1mb down to about 200kb, the picture quality remained the same. However, after saving a recent photo in GIF format, and making the DPI small, all photos I've made smaller, AFTER that, have lost their quality, and appear grainy etc. How do I change it back to the way it was - keeping the photo's quality when making photos smaller. Saving it in JPEG format does not make any difference, they still stay grainy. I know this problem is only with Irfanview, because I checked in Photoshop, and the quality stayed the same when resizing. thanks, caffy |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 259610 | 2004-08-08 11:06:00 | Goo Goo Shrink the dimensions of the pic, and leave the resolution static, or even increase if you want to do what you say |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 259611 | 2004-08-08 11:38:00 | Leave the resolution static? At the moment it's saying 72DPI, is this supposed to be right? what is the default setting for digital photos? |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 259612 | 2004-08-08 11:40:00 | > However, after saving a recent photo in GIF format, > and making the DPI small, all photos I've made > smaller, AFTER that, have lost their quality, and > appear grainy etc. It sounds like you need to reset the default settings if all your subsequent images are appearing grainy. Can't remember off the top of my head, but there *should* be somewhere a reset default settings option in Irfanview. See if this helps. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 259613 | 2004-08-08 12:29:00 | You must have older version of Irfan view. At the bottom of the save file as window should be a button for options/quality (long time since I used that version) click on it and slide the quality bar to max (only works with jpegs) |
the highlander (245) | ||
| 259614 | 2004-08-08 12:54:00 | Have you been resampling the images? It usually gives better results! What about picture format, tried PNG? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 259615 | 2004-08-08 12:59:00 | 72 sounds about right for a digital photo. If you have photo shop why not try save for the web option from the file menu, here you can select diferent formats and qualities and preview what it will look like before you save. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 259616 | 2004-08-08 14:14:00 | Also pays to make a copy of original photos and keep in a safe place eg. CD so if you damage a photo while working on it you can always make another copy if you have to. | gerrypics (323) | ||
| 259617 | 2004-08-08 20:38:00 | Saving it in PNG makes no difference, they are still grainy in appearance . I've looked in the properties and there isn't anything about the DPI settings . |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 259618 | 2004-08-08 20:44:00 | > You must have older version of Irfan view. > At the bottom of the save file as window should be a > button for options/quality (long time since I used > that version) click on it and slide the quality bar > to max (only works with jpegs) The quality bar is on the max setting when i am saving jpeg photos... |
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