Thread: Advice needed

Sounds like JBLR above is the person you should talk to.

If you end up needing any further assistance I use Photoshop professionally and have also spent many hours restoring my family's slides from the 60's onwards.

You mentioned the size of the PNG file. I presume that's the size when you're looking at the file on your desktop. It could be bigger when opened - PNGs can have varying degrees of compression.

One other tip - PNG files are RGB. My preference would be to change it to CMYK before doing any touch ups, so you can adjust hue, saturation etc. - rather than at the end when you've done a bunch of work, or not at all, and are puzzled why it's not printing out with as much color as it has on screen.

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

13 x 10 is just right!



huh?

I have played with a copy of the image in win 10, sliding all the colour/saturation etc controls until its about how I like it,, but its now a 1MB jpg,,


anyone used the machines that print from usb sticks?
Do I get any/many size options?

Pedro,

Sounds like you guys are all over this. It is a little difficult to troubleshoot without sitting in front of the system, however, here is a little info which may assist in the future.

Many system generated programs often auto compress images to save space. For example when sending images from a photo library to email, the system will often compress and send as a small to medium file so you don't clog up your email client. This can be manually overridden, and is often something we don't even think about during the process.

Given .png are lossless files (meaning they do not loose quality during editing), I think the above maybe occurring and possibly converting the file to .jpeg.

Jpeg files are smaller and produce very good output with many colours.

Keep in mind a jpeg image was designed for best compression to quality, to allow for smooth and fast transmission.

With regard to output, yes these terminals do give you a range of size options, however, keep in mind if you are changing the ratio of the image (for example 3:2 - standard full frame camera, to 4:3 - standard compact cameras or 16:9 etc) you may crop and loose parts of the image.

I generally find most professional printers understand colour management, however, I would recommend you steer away from those who don't, as you may find images that come out off colour or will heavy shifts from what you were expecting onscreen. Look for an outlet who deals in more than just mass run 6x4 prints and speak to the attendant and you will quickly gauge their level of knowledge in colour management and printing.

JB