Problems with photos

[andyapc]

Hi everyone,

I wasn't sure which forum to post this in. I posted a LO in the DSP member gallery in which my photos are very grainy and my carpet appears very swirly and I don't know what I have done wrong. I downloaded my pictures directly from my camera to my computer. When I look at my pictures from my desktop in My Documents>My Pictures, the pictures look good - not grainy, no carpet swirl. When I open them in DIP9, they're grainy and swirly. Carleyberg thought it might be a compression issue and offered to help so I sent her my picture as an attachment in my email - I inserted it from My Documents/My Pictures and it was in jpeg format. However, when she received it on her end, it was grainy & swirly, just like in my LO or in my DIP9. Is there anyway I can fix this? Am I supposed to adjust some sort of setting somewhere? I'm unfamiliar with compression issues - is this what's wrong? I'm including the link to the gallery LO but I wasn't sure how to include a link to my actual photo so that you could see the difference - can I even do that? Thanks so much for any advice.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=5697

Andrea C.

[Chevellegirl]

Could it possibly be the resolution issue when you create your page. I don't know anything about DIP - but when I create a page in PSP it asks what resolution I would like. Then when my pictures are placed they too have that resolution. KWIM? HTH. ;)

[andyapc]

I create all of my layouts at 200 resolution, because my computer was just too slow at 300. I don't know if it's a resolution issue or not :confused: . All I know is, my pictures look awful!

[Emma]

Is this the only photo behaving this way? My first thought is it's a resolution VIEW problem. Software magnifications compress the data, and when the zoom factor is not at the standard settings for the predetermined sizes (the buffer or cache is created for certain zoom factors), sometimes the photo or layout looks weird.

If it's not that, then I'd start researching your camera, the card you have, the uploading system hardware/software you own, learning about compression. Sounds like you have some Googling to do...try calling your camera customer service line and Microsoft (they charge... :mad: ) and see what's up. Would be a shame if the photos are getting ruined permanently, so learn all you can as fast as you can!

Good luck!