orginal photographs
Mar 29, 2012 17:13:01 #
waterbug49307
Loc: All over, currently Big Rapids Michigan
Recently I had cause to retrieve a photograph from my backup harddrive, and my flash drives both and to my horror I have discovered that all my photographs are now about a third of the original size. Is there any way to fix this problem or is all of my work ruined?
Mar 30, 2012 07:04:26 #
Do you mean that the metadata indicates that the file is about one-third the size in mega-pixels than the file you saved or that the image is being displayed on your monitor at 1/3 the size that you had seen previously?
Mar 30, 2012 22:13:42 #
waterbug49307
Loc: All over, currently Big Rapids Michigan
The originals are about the third of the pixel size on the backup and the flash drives.
Mar 30, 2012 22:20:00 #
Mar 30, 2012 23:16:43 #
Mar 30, 2012 23:34:37 #
Well, I tried using Picasa once and I discovered something that made me pause and rethink things through. I don't know if this happened to you but it did to me and luckily I had backups to undo the damage.
If you upload photos to Picasa and then edit the ones you uploaded, such as downsizing which I did, it will update the photos on your hard drive if you have the sync option enabled. I quit using Picasa now so it may have changed. There may be something going on when you upload, in particular resizing. If it is down sizing during upload and you have sync enabled it will change the copies on your hard drive.
Not sure if this is your problem but something I discovered with almost disastrous results.
If you upload photos to Picasa and then edit the ones you uploaded, such as downsizing which I did, it will update the photos on your hard drive if you have the sync option enabled. I quit using Picasa now so it may have changed. There may be something going on when you upload, in particular resizing. If it is down sizing during upload and you have sync enabled it will change the copies on your hard drive.
Not sure if this is your problem but something I discovered with almost disastrous results.
Mar 30, 2012 23:59:57 #
Try opening the files in PSE (I think you can get a 30 day trial version) and resizing at 1200 ppi.
If that doesn't work, get a software program with Genuine Fractals or another fractals component.
Sorry I can't come up with a cheaper solution.
If that doesn't work, get a software program with Genuine Fractals or another fractals component.
Sorry I can't come up with a cheaper solution.
Mar 31, 2012 00:18:33 #
gmcase wrote:
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That has got to be one of the dumbest bits of software in the universe. You modify one and it changes the original? I guess you get what you pay for.
Mar 31, 2012 01:17:02 #
It only does this if you have the sync option enabled but there shoud be very clear warnings alerting you it will sync te later changes made to either the one you uploaded or th one on your source drive. It ay not be that way now but it was that way sat May when I almost lost a weeks worth of pics in Hawaii.
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