Printing pictures

Hi, I am wondering what the best way is to go about getting some prints made. (JPG Files)

I have 2 questions really.

1) When I edit a picture (levels, red-eye, etc) and then I go to save it, it brings up the slider with what quality you want… 1-10 (I believe?). Do I always want to choose 10? What exactly does this do? What should it be set for when you want to just publish the pictures on a website? … Ok, sorry… that was a few questions!

2) What is the best way to resize photo’s before bringing them to the store to get printed. I realize that the ratio of a digital picture is
1.3333 where as your normal picture (say 4×6) is 1.5 . I believe in the
store, they use some type of program and actually crop all of your photos before printing. I would rather do this cropping ahead of time, so I’m the one who determines what gets printed. Would I do this in photoshop, or some other program? And if it’s some other program, does it change any of the image quality before it saves the new file?

Thanks!

Gary

Ok Gary, I can answer your questions about printing, and this is what I do, I bring in the photo from the camera into Photoshop CS2, and duplicate the photo, leaving the orignal intact,and then edit where necessary and then crop. I then bring up a new file, and in your case I make it 4 x 6, and move and drag the duplicate to this file, using transform/free transform, you can place the picture just where you want it to be, and at this stage you could also use the "stroke" tool and add a border to the file. Then I use print preview, and print from there.
The slider you talk about, 1 – 10, this I use at the maximum 10, I have never found it necessary to use for the pictures I take, I have on occasion, used 5 or less for Web photos.

I hope this helps

Moira

"Gary H" wrote in message

Hi, I am wondering what the best way is to go about getting some prints made. (JPG Files)

I have 2 questions really.

1) When I edit a picture (levels, red-eye, etc) and then I go to save it, it brings up the slider with what quality you want… 1-10 (I believe?). Do I always want to choose 10? What exactly does this do? What should it be set for when you want to just publish the pictures on a website? … Ok, sorry… that was a few questions!

2) What is the best way to resize photo’s before bringing them to the store to get printed. I realize that the ratio of a digital picture is
1.3333 where as your normal picture (say 4×6) is 1.5 . I believe in the
store, they use some type of program and actually crop all of your photos before printing. I would rather do this cropping ahead of time, so I’m the one who determines what gets printed. Would I do this in photoshop, or some other program? And if it’s some other program, does it change any of the image quality before it saves the new file?

Thanks!

Gary