Hi folks, I made my first attempt to print some photos a couple of days ago and the result was not as good as I guess it could be. However by the time I made a decent improvement I ran out of photo paper.
I have an iMac 266 with 288 MB RAM OSX 10.1.5 I use a Nikon F60 SLR camera and post my film to Extrafilm on the east coast for developing. The prints are returned with a CD containing the photos in JPG format in small, medium & large (the large being about a megabyte each). I used Appleworks Draw to assemble three 6" x 4" photos on each A4 sheet. I then selected BEST quality and selected the appropriate paper type, in this case premium photo paper. I gradually discovered that by converting the large JPG files to PICT files the quality improved a lot. The JPG prints were very blotchy (especially skin tones). I also tried TIFF which were better but not as good as PICT. My printer is an HP 880C. Is there any more I can do to improve the picture quality without diving into expensive software purchases. ? Also any recommendations for paper type would be appreciated. -- Regards, Stephen Chape
