[dugarner]

Originally Posted by hulseyfam

I'm a little slow...so bear with me!

So with all of this talk, I still don't quite get if I'm OK to take 180dpi and put it onto a 300dpi LO and be fine. And how much bigger can I make them-how much larger can I resize the pics?? THey are showing 180dpi and approx 2x3 in size. So can I go an uncheck resample and put in 300dpi and the correct size I want them to be?

Laura said, "And your situation sounds especially confusing. At 180dpi, your photos are only 2 inches by 3 inches? Those would be pretty small images. Even my cell phone outputs way more pixels than that. If you just look at file info on one of your photos, what are the dimensions in pixels?

I never use resize or resample commands in Photoshop on my photos. I use the photos on a 300 dpi canvas, and everything I drag onto that canvas is then at 300 dpi."

Jaime, Laura is right. The problem is that you are starting with a file that is lower resolution that a normal image would be. I don't understand why your photos are 180 ppi and 2X3. Even a 2 MP camera (which you can't even buy anymore) would put out 4 X 6 images at 300 ppi. That sounds like someone scanned them at a very low resolution. Even a disposable digital camera will take higher resolution pictures than that. What is the source of these pictures? Are they from a digital camera? If so, you may have the resolution set too low. Let me know the model of the camera and I'll do some research if you need me to.

If you uncheck resample, you won't be able to get them up to 300ppi. If you keep resample checked and put in 300 ppi, they go up to 300 ppi but will look quite grainy, even at 4X6. It's like taking a dozen eggs from their carton, which they fit into quite nicely, and spreading that same dozen across the surface of a cookie sheet, where they are spread far apart. The computer will take all that empty space and fill it in with what it "thinks" should go there.

I think to resolve this issue, we need to know the source of your photos. It doesn't make sense to me that they are so low-resolution.

PM me if this isn't making sense.