how to print digital pix...

[iguy1]

My digital camera is set at 2048 (3:2).. I don't know what my daughter's is set at (she is abroad) but all the pix she emails to me always print out smaller than 4x6 and no degree of manipulation allows me to size it ... does the way the camera is set (image size... 2048x1536, 2048(3:2), 1600x1200, etc ultimately influence the size that it can be formatted and printed?
what is the best camera setting to print out 4x6 or 5x7?
what is the purpose of the different settings? sharpness?
if the camera settings make no difference wrt printing, is there a way to get those "undersized" prints to 4x6? thanks \
Mike

[VirtualTracy]

Have you tried printing using iPhoto:

[MisterMe]

Originally Posted by iguy1

... what is the best camera setting to print out 4x6 or 5x7? ...

This is not a camera issue, it is an issue with the application that you use to view your pictures. Out-of-the-box, you may use iPhoto or Preview to view and print your pictures. Both will scale and rotate pictures to accommodate your paper and number of pictures per page. Third-party apps like GraphicConverter and Photoshop Elements give the user effectively infinite control over the size of the printed image.

[iguy1]

Ihave been using Iphoto- I cannot get some pix to a full 4x6

thanks
any settings in I photo that I have to manipulate?

Mike

[MisterMe]

Originally Posted by iguy1

Ihave been using Iphoto- I cannot get some pix to a full 4x6

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Get a photo printer that is capable printing on 4x6 paper or 4-up on 8x12.

[iguy1]

I have a photo printer that does only 4x6. With my camera (set as above), no problems at all. Let me ask this- if the photos are emailed to me from a camera with different settings, would that possibly affect my ability to print the proper size? They always come out a little shy of 4x6. Does the email program somehow affect the area of the photo?

Mike

[VirtualTracy]

What kind of camera originally took the pics? I know that my Canon PowerShot A70 is a right royal pain when it comes to printing. What I see in my viewfinder isn't what I see in the finished print ... if I do a close-up of a face, the end result after printing is cropped. It's just the nature of my camera AFAIK and I wouldn't have bought it in hindsight if I knew this.

[MisterMe]

Originally Posted by iguy1

... They always come out a little shy of 4x6. Does the email program somehow affect the area of the photo?

...

The email program will not adversely affect your photographs unless it is also adversely affecting everything else.

The first thing that you need to get out of your head is that someone's camera can control who a photograph is printed at some time in the future. It can't. You don't say which model photoprinter you have, but there may be a mismatch between your printer's aspect ratio and your camera's aspect ratio. You can only print a 4x6 photograph on 4x6 paper if you have a borderless printer. Otherwise, you will have a border of different width left and right than top and bottom.

Originally Posted by VirgilTracy

... It's just the nature of my camera AFAIK and I wouldn't have bought it in hindsight if I knew this.

Unless you are printing directly from your camera, it is not the nature of the camera. It is a combination of the application used to print your photographs and your print driver. Its File > Print dialog box makes available certain sizes of paper and either landscape or portrait orientation. If you choose the proper size paper, then your application/print driver combination will scale your photograph to fit your paper. The worse that should happen is that selecting the wrong orientation results in too much white space on your photograph's short dimension.

The bottomline for both of you is that you need to understand your equipment and you need to understand the technology.