Editing photos

Phyzelda

I need to edit two photos so that I can have them printed as Christmas presents. They are my own photos before anyone worries.


A kind person has managed one of them, but unfortunately the file returned is too small to be good enough to print. The original file was around 6mb, the returned just 720kb


Anyone got any recommendations?

Rubidium

Phyzelda wrote: »

I need to edit two photos so that I can have them printed as Christmas presents. They are my own photos before anyone worries.


A kind person has managed one of them, but unfortunately the file returned is too small to be good enough to print. The original file was around 6mb, the returned just 720kb


Anyone got any recommendations?

Unfortunately the person trying to help you doesn't know what they are doing.

It sounds like the edited image has been saved at a low dpi suitable for website use and not for printing.

If you download Irfanview from https://www.irfanview.com you can probably edit the picture yourself - read the built-in HELP.

You will be able to view the edited image properties simply by viewing using Irfanview - Click on the I icon.

The image needs to be saved at 300 dpi for printing.

Le_Kirk

It depends upon how much editing you want to do. There are limited facilities available sometimes with printer software and with some Widows O/S's. For professional editing you will need Photoshop or Elements or Lightroom or CC or ....... but they all cost

Phyzelda

Thank you! I will give it a go!

Phyzelda

One picture I need to take the instructor out the background

Second picture I just need to see if I can tidy the background up

Phyzelda

clearly not as clever as I thought I was! haha

AndyPix

You could use GIMP, from https://www.gimp.org/

or

PAINT.NET from here http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

Both are free and every bit as feature rich as their super expensive cousins ..

Phyzelda

AndyPix wrote: »

You could use GIMP, from https://www.gimp.org/

or

PAINT.NET from here http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

Both are free and every bit as feature rich as their super expensive cousins ..

And according to my PC one contains a virus


But thanks

AndyPix

Wow, that's surprising - they are both reputable open source projects !!

Which one said that it contained a virus ??

AndyPix

Ahhh, I think I know whats happening ...

I bet you clicked on one of these fake download buttons on the adverts on the page ..



Instead - you need to click the actual download link - it looks like this -

Phyzelda

The second one unfortunately