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So I send my pictures online to walmart to get them turned into prints. Well they came out grainy. Nothing like off of film and not really worth the money. Is there a certain way I should order them or is it just best to save a back up to dvd for now?
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What format and resolution were the files that you sent and they received? A printed digital photo with sufficient resolution should look just as good as an analog photo. I print my own photos at home and there is never a problem unless the photo is too low of a resolution after cropping, etc. for the size that I am printing, but that is rare to never.
I wouldn't pay for them if they were that bad unless they could explain to me why it happened and how I could prevent it in the future. -
Yep, make sure you are taking them at a high resolution. I have taken my pictures to walmart before and they do come out decent. There is a camera shop a block away from my work that I take them to now. What a difference! I pay a tad bit more per picture but definitely worth the money. They do an excellent job.Comment
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Bigred54 is a freakin wizz on this stuff. Its his hobby. He could tell you everything you need to know. I think that he is out of town right now tho. Try to hit him up sometime this weekend and i am sure he could help u out.Comment
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I do this all the time too, and I am very happy with the results, assuming you do not go over the size/mpxles of the image.
For example, if your printing 5X7 pictures (big prints, but not yet a full sheet of paper size) anything that is 3MP or more is going to give you the number of pixels that you need to not have to interpolate the information in your pictures. Basically, your picture is going to have the information for every place that the printer is going to place a "dot". If your picture does not have the information, your going to have to guess (called interpolation) and that can make the pictures grainy and unpleasing to the eye.
The other problem that people run into is compression. Yeah, if your going to look at your pictures only on the computer use JPG and compress the shit out of them. If your going to print them however, I would suggest lowering the JPG compression level (either to the min for your camera or one step over that). The thing that sucks is the pictures take up alot more room them; but I think you will feel its worth it when you go to print. Pro's use a RAW format in their cameras; those images are crazy big (10-50MB/image is not unheard of) but the reason is that these images are the best to work with for cropping/resizing and adjusting (RAW images are unprocessed by the camera, leaving it all for you to do in a program like Photoshop). I would not suggest this unless your trying to get that "perfect" image.
Look at your JPG compression; turn it down if its up really high. I have a 4MP camera now, and with my JPG compression turned down, I get about 40 images on a 128MB flash card. So each image is a little under 3MB. They look great when printed, and I have used a few different services including the neighborhood drugstore.
Good luck!Comment
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Wow that's alot of stuff :) I will have to check the camera out when my wife gets back from PolandComment
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