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how to get clearer pictures sent through email I get email from africa, and the person takes the picture with their camera, but when they email the picture and I go to print it, it is distorted. Is there any way to fix this?
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W. |
Hi L. What do you mean "it is distorted"? Can you describe what you get?
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Deb James |
They're probably sending it at a very low resolution to keep the file size small. Printing at low resolution will always look bad.
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John P. Sandstedt |
Any time one tries to print a file with a resolution outside of the range of 240-320 ppi the results may be terrible. Printers for the masses are, generally, set for 300 dpi and expect a file with a resolution between 240-320 ppi. Anything lower and the print will be blurred - to downright terrible. Anything higher won't be used. If you're really interested in simply viewing the image on screen, try having them e-mail a 1"X1.5" image at 300 ppi. That's one of the PSA standards for e-mailing. You might try a 2"X3" at 300 ppi, it will still be a fairly small file - not necessarily suitable for printing. When my DIL sends me files to be printed, she sends 21"X28" files at 72 ppi. Obviously, these can't be printed and the files tend to be large. I adjust them to a 2:3 aspect ration and resize them to 4"X6" at 300 ppi. No problem printing. Hope this helps.
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Shawn Wilson |
The pictures being sent are too small. Whether you relate that in DPI and inches or simply picture pixel dimentions, they're simply too small. If the sender is having the developer scan the pictures to CD (like walmart does) then they may be able to ask for better scans. If they are scanning the pictures themselves then they need to scan them at higher resolutions. Be careful though, scanning a higher quality source image will start to make it's size climb rapidly and make that email more painful to send. These days with high-speed internet it's not that big of a deal to send a 4 or 5 meg file, but if a dial-up modem is involved then beware.
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