HTH - hope this helps - I had to google it. Where do you all get those acronyms and remember them? i shall add your contribution to my "2006 learn about photos" folder. Marta
On Jan 5, 2006, at 17:54, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > LuAnn, > > Ditch Appleworks. Use the export function in iPhoto and send those > photos to the disk for printing at the store. In iPhoto 5 it's under > the Share menu: "Burn Disk." That will put the highest res file on a > CD for printing. I am suspecting that Appleworks does not understand > the file format of the shots from your camera, or (more likely) the > drugstore's machine does not understand the Appleworks file format you > saved it in. > > Hmmmm, Maybe... > OTOH, if you are using Appleworks to add other elements to the pages, > that might not be enough. I would try some of the options in > Appleworks' Save As dialog. I would experiment with JPEG, PNG and TIFF > file formats and see what prints better at the drugstore. If it isn't > the resolution issues described by Russ and Ray [Hey! I once knew a > guy named Russ Ray!) then it's probably the file format. > > Here's how you tell: > > In the final prints do the graphics from Appleworks look fine but the > pictures don't? Then it's AppleWorks not being able to work with the > file type out of iPhoto. Try exporting it out of iPhoto in a different > format. (In iPhoto 5 under the Share menu select Export.) > > In the final prints do the graphics look just as bad as the photos? > Then it's the file type you are exporting out of Appleworks that's the > culprit. Again, try Save As and choose JPEG, TIFF or PNG, in that > order. My money is on JPEG solving it for you. DO NOT leave it in > Appleworks format if you want the drugstore to know what it's looking > at. > > Keep us posted. I'm on digest, so if you copy me when you respond I > can get back to you sooner. > > HTH > > j. > > > On Jan 5, 2006, at 5:15 PM, LuAnn Johnson <lizzielu at insightbb.com> > wrote: > >> I edited some pictures with iPhoto, and sharpenening them just a >> little >> made them look clearer on the monitor. I then put 8-10 on one 8.5x11 >> page in Appleworks drawing and printed them at Wal-mart for a friend >> to >> use in scrapbooking. The results are horrible - everything is >> splotchy >> and grainy - the way it looks when I over-sharpen. >> >> I printed them again on my home HP printer, and they are just as bad. >> >> The pictures look perfect on my monitor, so I don't know why this is >> happening. Could it be because I shouldn't have adjusted the >> sharpening? >> >> When I've done slideshows on iMovie, I have always sharpened the >> photos >> just a bit, and they look much better. The pictures that look great >> in >> iMovie look horrible when printed. > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > jfletch at newmediaconstco.com > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
