"Cassie" wrote in message
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Thanks Roy, I had a look at the link you posted, there is a lot of reading
but looks as though it may help I hope.
Many thanks,
Cassie.
"Roy G" wrote in message
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"Cassie" wrote in message


Have a look at www.scantips.com Pixels and things are well explained
there, or try reading the Help Files in one of your Photo Programs.

This is easy, but writing a quick set of instructions for a photo program
I am not familiar with, would be rather difficult.

Roy G




Hi again.

I should add that I have just found a Canon provided program on my machine,
called Arc Soft Photo Studio 5.5. and also Irfanview. Irfanview is more of
a picture viewer than an editing program.

I have looked at both of those and there is no way of resizing without
adding or removing pixels. That is a bad thing to do, because it will cause
damage to the picture which will almost certainly have had its pixels
changed already.

What you need to do is change how closely packed the pixels are. If you
want the picture to print smaller then you want to pack the pixels closer
together, but you do not want to add or remove pixels.

This is done by changing the Pixel per Inch (PPI) figures. That can be done
very easily in real Digital Photo Editing Programs like Photoshop Elements,
but I don't know about Photo Shop De Lux or whatever your program is.

There is a Free Editing Program called Picassa which can be downloaded, but
again I have no experience of it..

It is possible that the Printer will have a setting somewhere to "Scale" the
image, or to set the Final Print Size, and the printer driver will do this
alteration for you without inventing or losing pixels.

By the way your image is actually a 2.2 Mb picture (1188 x 1848 = 2,195424).
It is only 576 Kb because of compression being applied when it is closed to
its saved size. It should still print well at 6 inches x 4 inches.

On these groups a 2.2Mb image is considered small, if not very small. A 2
Mega Pixel Camera will produce a 6Mb image, a10 Mp Camera will produce a 30
Mb Image.

Best of luck,

Roy G