Marta, Internet Acronyms Dictionary ( http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/?lookup=A ) is the best source I know for looking up Internet acronyms. I have it bookmarked (Command-D) in Safari. I learned this from Macgroup.
Thanks again Macgroup, Peter On 1/5/06, Marta Edie <martaedie at mac.com> wrote: > 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> > | 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>
