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How Big Can I Print My Digital Photo?

Tom Long — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:33:10 +0000

There is a tribe of us who usually enjoy our pictures online. But occasionally we succumb to the urge to fell trees and emit VOCs by having hard copies of our art printed. We then find ourselves asking how big can the print be given the resolution of my picture. In an attempt to address this for my three cameras (I’m counting my iPhone), I came up with the following chart.

		My Printer		Commercial Printers
Image size	Mpixel	300 ppi	200ppi	Kodak	Wal-Mart	Camera
540×360					4×6
546×390					Wallet
546×390					5×7
640×480	0.3	2.1×1.6	3.2×2.4	4×6
960×768					8×10
1024×768	0.8	3.4×2.5	5.1×3.8	5×7
1260×990					11×14
1400×1050	1.5	4.7×3.5	4.7×5.25
1536×1024	1.6	5.1×3.4	7.7×5.1	8×10
1600×1200	1.9	5.3×4	8×6	16×20
1600×1200	1.9	5.3×4	8×6	20×30		iPhone
1620×1080		5.4×3.6	8.1×5.4		12×18
1632×1224	2.0	5.4×4.1	8.2 x 6.1
1800×1440	2.6	6×4.8	9×7.2		16×20
2590×1920	5.0	8.6×6.4	13.0 x 9.6
2700×1800	4.9	9×6	13.5×9		20×30
3621×2519	9.1	12.1×8.4	18.1×12.6			Nikon Coolpix 8700
3648×2736	10.0	12.2×9.2	18.2×13.7			Pentax Optio W60
1050×1500	1.6	3.5×5
1200×1800	2.2	4×6
1500×2100	3.2	5×7
1800×2400	4.3	6×8
1800×2550	4.6	6×8.5
2400×3000	7.2	8×10
2400×3600	8.6	8×12
3300×4200	13.9	11×14

For me, this means that I can print my iPhone pictures at 3.5×5 at home, 11×14 at Wal-Mart, or 20×30 at Kodak EasyShare. With my Nikon pictures, I can print up to 8×12 at home or 20×30 at Wal-Mart or Kodak. My Pentax can also do an 8×12 at home or 20×30 at a professional printer, but provides a slightly higher source resolution than the Nikon.

To Print at Home or an Online Service

Tom Long — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:09:03 +0000

Not everyone has a photo quality printer at home. Even those of us that do, don’t always have a printer that can handle larger sizes of photos. I haven’t ordered prints from any of these services and so can’t recommend any one of them. But I thought I probably wasn’t the only one interested in what the best deal would be if I were to want to get a picture printed. If you have experience with any of these services, please share that with us in the comments.

Check the numbers for yourself, but here is what I found when comparison shopping from whom to order photo prints online:

	Kodak	Wal-Mart	Snapfish	Shutterfly	RitzPix
Wallets	$1.69	$0.54
4×6	$0.15	$0.09	$0.09	$0.15
5×7	$0.89	$0.58	$0.79	$0.99	$0.99
8×10	$2.99	$2.84	$2.99	$3.99	$4.99
8×12					$3.99
11×14		$5.86	$6.99	$7.99	$10.99
12×18		$8.86	$9.99
16×20	$14.99	$12.86	$14.99	$17.99	$19.95
20×30	$18.99	$16.86	$19.99	$22.99	$29.95
24×36					$39.95
shipping	$1.50	$0.00				<$4.99 order
shipping			$0.99			Print
shipping			$1.99			small poster
shipping			$2.99			large poster

Don’t forget other fun services like Zazzle for art prints or Big Huge Labs for fun activities with your digital photos.

Use a Gallery2 Photo to Lead Your Blog

Tom Long — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:29:26 +0000

As mentioned yesterday, my primary layout is a 180px wide photo on the left which may or may not have a link to an album. This is an example of that layout. Use the ‘add an image’ button, then ‘from URL’, to be able to add a hyperlink. In this case the hyperlink is back to the image.
By changing to the HTML (not Visual/WYSIWYG) mode, one should see code similar to what is shown here:

Unfortunately this will result in the hyperlink opening in the same tab or window. Modify the code by adding target=”_blank” to have the album open in a new tab. Also, the text would butt right up against the image, unless you add hspace=”15″. The resulting code is illustrated below.

Use ‘add an image’ button, then ‘from URL’, to be able to add a hyperlink. In this case the hyperlink is back to the Gallery2 page.

Hopefully, this will be helpful to some other bloggers seeking to make their posts visually attractive and easy for their readers to navigate. For those of you with questions or who have a better (or just different idea), let us hear them in the comments. Thanks.