Printing photos from the internet

Beckiboo

Beckiboo

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I've got a load of travelling photos stored on various sites such as Facebook, Fotki etc. I think Ive lost some of the original discs that we had them burned onto so I'm trying to print them out from the net.
The resolution on them looks really poor though - is this how they will come out when printed? If so I dont want to do it then as they're quite blurry.

Is there any way I can get them from the net, but still a good print quality?
 
If you upload them onto snapfish they you can edit them on there, not sure about making things less blurry tho but you can def crop them, remove red-eye etc.
 
Barbie said:
If you upload them onto snapfish they you can edit them on there, not sure about making things less blurry tho but you can def crop them, remove red-eye etc.
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I dont want to edit them at all... I just want to print out hard copies of all the photos.

on Facebook they look fine, not blurry at all, but when I go to order prints, the quality seems to go really bad :?
I'm not sure if its just on the screen, and they actually will print out ok. It says I have a good print resolution so Im not sure what to do?
 
Beckiboo said:
I dont want to edit them at all... I just want to print out hard copies of all the photos.

on Facebook they look fine, not blurry at all, but when I go to order prints, the quality seems to go really bad :?
I'm not sure if its just on the screen, and they actually will print out ok. It says I have a good print resolution so Im not sure what to do?
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:?:?:? I'm confused :?:lol:
 
Browneyedgirl said:
have you tried printing a sample on yourself? see what it is like?
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I havent got a colour printer or anything here so it wouldnt come out as it would on proper photo paper anyway.

It does say that the quality will actually be better when they're printed out but I dont want to print out 100+ photos if Im not guaranteed good quality!
 
download all the shots onto your computer and check the resolution.

chances are, they've been downsized to 72dpi (screen resolution) when you uploaded them to various sites (i know photobucket has options for diff uses).

if you print these at actual size on a decent inkjet, they should come out ok.

if you print these larger than actual size, you will get pixalation (eg. printing a photo 200% means you are also blowing up the pixel size - and cos the image is 72dpi. there arent many pixels to blow up).

remember, its better to reduce down files to fit than to try and increase them.
 
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