Need help quick!!!

[Yomny]

Guys/Gals my g/f took some pics with a film camera and took them to develop them but they gave her the pics in a CD, now most pics have a file size of 1.5mb and 1500x1084 dimension. Since i don't know the megapixels i need to know what's the biggest photo that i could print out of these. She tried pritinga regular photo paper 8x11 i think and it came out grainy. Please i need to get some comments as she's going nuts over this. Thanks

[KurtB]

Take the pixel dimemtions and divide by the ppi (pixel per inch) that you will be printing at...

If printed at 300 ppi (sometimes refered to as dpi), the pictures would be 5 x 3.6 inches

If printed at 150 ppi, the pictures would be 10 x 7.2 (and probably show more noise like you already experienced).

If my memory is correct, most labs print around 250 ppi (but that is just a vague memory). Ask you lab if they can tell you the ppi that they normally print at. Based on 250 ppi, your prints would be just about the normal 4 x 6 print that your local "big box" (Target, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, Cosco, etc.) photo lab normally prints.

Hope this helps.

[Yomny]

When i import my pics from my card to the PC i get them all at 72ppi so i could just bump that up to lets say 150 or more and and then devide the dementions on the pic (1584x1086)/150 and that gives me the 10x7. What if i leave the resolution at 72ppi and then print the picture wouldn't i be able to get a good 8x10 or so?

[AlexMonro]

Since it's film, you could always get the negatives rescanned at higher resolution.

[Yomny]

Thank you guys for your help this is very helpful. She got the films to develop and what they gave her are CD's with pictures that don't exceed 1800 demensions so she can't really print images bigger than 6" saying that the ppi's are at 300 to get a good quality.

[KurtB]

If there is a particular shot that you would like printed at 8x10, just have the lab do it from the original negative, or have them rescan them at a higher resolution.

Trying to print anything lower that 150 ppi will give terrible results, and even 150 will not acceptable in most instances.

[Yomny]

The problem is that she did some retouching to most pics and she'll have to print from the digital image, she's going to have them rescanned at a better resolution but she'll have to do all the editing again. Thanks afor everything guys