Technology: Print Your Photos Like A Pro At Home

Print Your Photos Like A Pro At Home

Written by Granny's Mettle

Even with repparttar

lowest pixel available in your digital camera, you too can produce photos and prints at home that can look better than those made in photo labs. Digital photo printing has come to a point where everybody is given repparttar 133309

choice to either produce repparttar 133310

output by themselves or to get assistance from outside. So when you opt to do it yourself, avoid repparttar 133311

two mistakes often made by first timers of digital photo printing.

Mistake # 1: Digital camera is not set to repparttar 133312 highest image quality.

Solution:

The first thing you should do is to set your digital camera to repparttar 133313 highest picture resolution available. This can be found in repparttar 133314 camera’s setup menu, and usually indicated as either “quality” or “size”.

In addition, when your digital camera offers you to select between TIFF and JPG when saving your photo, opt for TIFF. TIFF images appear much cleaner, crisper, and more detailed than repparttar 133315 JPG version. However, you have to take note that TIFF files have larger sizes than JPG that your digital memory card may not be able to save many photos. Moreover, most digital cameras have memory cards that could only hold a few high resolution TIFF images. To answer this problem, you could either buy a larger memory card that will cost you almost $100, or just settle with choosing images you like best and discarding those not at par with your tastes.

Mistake # 2: Printer is not set up for repparttar 133316 right resolution and paper type.

Solution:

Second, when you go to your printer’s settings in your computer find your printer’s setup and put to highest quality color digital photo printing. This is sometimes indicated in dpi (dots per inch). Still, some printers have a “Quality versus Speed” setting which makes you choose between faster printing or better looking photos. When you’re doing documents, it is better to use repparttar 133317 Speed setting, while for photos, go for Quality.

Printing a Panorama at Home

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When you choose to print your photo panorama-style yourself, here are a few suggestions to help you:

You can use paper larger than your printer specs

The size of repparttar paper depends on repparttar 133308 size of repparttar 133309 slot in repparttar 133310 printer. For most home printers, this slot is limited to either repparttar 133311 letter size width or slightly larger. Nevertheless, you have to take note that repparttar 133312 letter size length is not limited though.

What one woman did was to buy a paper large than repparttar 133313 standard size specified by her printer, then cut repparttar 133314 paper so that repparttar 133315 shorter part of repparttar 133316 paper may be able to go through repparttar 133317 slot of her printer, while keeping repparttar 133318 longer edge full length.

There are also unusual paper sizes available in repparttar 133319 market. And then just cut whatever size of paper you like. However, you have to check first that you can configure your printer settings to a custom paper size, as well as check that you can load repparttar 133320 paper into repparttar 133321 printer.

You can choose repparttar 133322 software

Adobe Photoshop and JASC PaintShop Pro are software that allows you to increase repparttar 133323 physical size of repparttar 133324 image without touching repparttar 133325 resolution of repparttar 133326 master image. There are many more programs available that lets you resize and customize paper sizes.

You can choose repparttar 133327 paper type

The best results are made when you use repparttar 133328 paper available for your printer. Developers of printers design both repparttar 133329 paper and printer to work with each other. So when printing at home, remember to use repparttar 133330 paper made for your printer. For photo paper, choose according to paper opacity, repparttar 133331 ISO brightness (the level of whiteness when repparttar 133332 paper is pure white before printing), and a reputable name.

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