high Res photos from SD card

[Bitter Jeweler]

Explore your card before importing, right click (or whatever you do with one button on a mac) a file and check the properties. How big are your files, pre import?

Have you read the manual for your camera?

 

[danibananie]

ok, i finally got it! thanks everyone. I am so bad with digital stuff!

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

So, what was the magic answer?

 

[chito beach]

So, what was the magic answer?

Inquiring minds need to know

 

[K8-90]

(Can you not just copy and paste from the SD card to your hard drive? I didn't know method of importing affects resolution! I never use the cable or the Canon software!)

 

[danibananie]

i used the canon software to Convert and Save and that allows you to type in the resolution that you want to save your images at. it defaulted to 300 dpi, so i just used that

 

[enzodm]

i used the canon software to Convert and Save and that allows you to type in the resolution that you want to save your images at. it defaulted to 300 dpi, so i just used that

mmm... no one until now told you that 72dpi or 300dpi is the same for what regards pixel resolution? Image is exactly the same, just with a different settting for when you print it.

Although iPhoto is not the best software for a photographer, it does not modify resolution in what it finds on your SD.

 

[KmH]

i used the canon software to Convert and Save and that allows you to type in the resolution that you want to save your images at. it defaulted to 300 dpi, so i just used that

mmm... no one until now told you that 72dpi or 300dpi is the same for what regards pixel resolution? Image is exactly the same, just with a different settting for when you print it.

Although iPhoto is not the best software for a photographer, it does not modify resolution in what it finds on your SD.

Yep. enzodm has it almost right.

For Digital images, there is no DPI....It is only PPI, Pixels-Per-Inch.

But for electronic display the only numbers that matter are the pixel dimensions (resolution) of the image. PPI is meaningless, until a photo will be printed.

Now, back to dpi, which means dots-per-inch, and is a term that only applies to printers that do not produce continuous tone prints, like inkjet and pre press half-tone printing.

Dots are round, pixels are square. It takes multiple dots to render a single pixel.