Saving Work in PSPX2 Ultimate for Professonal use.

[DarkAngel]

Hi I'm new to this site,and already i find lots of great people who are willing to help quickly.
I've been using PSP for along time now,used 8,9 and now X2Ultimate
But only now I've been wanting to do some professionaly.My problem is that I open the original pic and work on it,but when i save it ,by using SAVE AS...
it saves it smaller.The dimension stays the same put the 1.19MB changes to 554KB depending on the work i do.
Well this won't be good for those who want a CD of the pictures to print or myself who wants to print 8x10 or larger.
How do i go about saving my work and still keep the size as the original 1.19MB

I've also tried the Save for Office and there it will keep the size or even bigger if I play with Width and Height,but the tec support at the Corel says NOT to use that for Pofessional use then why is it called Professional Printing?

I would like to keep the LARGEST size and Dpi for customers to print and not lose quality.Also if they order CD that they can open it on their Computer without having to have PSP

Thank You in Advance!

[Soquili]

Hi DarkAngel,

Welcome to Talkgraphics.

When you Save As, what file format do you specify?

If you are working with photos from a digital camera using jpeg (.jpg) files then save from PSPX2 the quality setting defaults to about 80%. Change the quality to 100% and the file size should remain the same as the source photo.

Check the Options or Settings when you have the Save As dialog open.

[DarkAngel]

Thanks Soquili,I save them as a JPG JPEG and I have the Canon PowesrshotSX10 IS
when i go to options on the pop up Save As it gives me another pop up called Saved Options where i see
Encoding(set at Standard encoding)
Compression(set at 22)
Chroma
ICC PROFILE
so i then play with the compression and the higher i go,the worst the picture looks.
I don't see anything on quality that i can play with.
The only place that i see anything to do with Quality was in the Save for office,also there i can change the Dpi

Not sure what I'm missing or doing wrong

[Soquili]

DarkAngle I was not sure of the dialogs in X2 Ultimate. I have PSP 7 and PSP 8. I downloaded X2 Ultimate trial a few minutes ago.

In the Save As dialog before clicking the Save button click the Options Button. Then on the Options dialog change compression to 0 (zero) then click the OK button.

[DarkAngel]

THANK YOU!!!! your a life saver! now the size is 2.33MB and Orignal 1.19MB now i should be able to have a size bigger then 8x10 to print.
Oh but noticed the Dpi is 180 is that still good to print large?

[Soquili]

That should still give a good print.

Did you resize the image in PSP X2?

Changing the compression should not change the dpi of an image.

[steve.ledger]

For best printing, save your dcam pics as TIF (uncompressed RGB) after editing them.
Of course, you must shoot and save at the best quality in your SX10 IS, so set it to shoot and save at LARGE (3,648 x 2,736 pixels) and SF settings.

Every generation of JPG you save is loosing quality no matter how you set the compression/IQ slider. You cannot 'add' any more quality that already exists in your source file..

You cannot change print dpi, only the printer can do this.
You can change resolution scalling (ppi) which helps the printer when he chooses the best print DPI for the size of the output.

[coningham]

TIF files can become quite large in file size. Go for PNG instead of JPG since it is another lossless format (JPG will always compress, no matter how low you set the compression rate) and keeps a decent file size.

[DarkAngel]

Great Thanks!!
I'll try those other settings.

[steve.ledger]

Professional printers prefer .tif as it is the perferred bitmap graphics format for high-resolution postscript printing. They aren't concerned about data sizes.
PNG is for network exchange.