ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)

My daughter and her boyfriend and and my son and a bunch of others are all millennials and they post everything on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and so on. That generation is complete satisfied with using cell phones. They could not be less interested in dicussing image quality. They usually share photos by texting them to each other. This is all well and good from small screen to small screen. Occasionally they will actually take an image that is quite special and that they want printed. By the time they text it to me to print it for them it is reduced to a couple hundred kb which is simply not going to be suitable for an 8x10 or larger. Then I have to explain to them how to attach a cable from the phone to a laptop or pc and send me the original image from the phone's storage which will usually yield a file of 3 to 4 MB which is pretty workable.

Am I missing something? When an image is texted, it is highly compressed so it doesn't take forever to send. Is there a better way to get to the original file so it will be suitable for printing? When a millennial is explained what the process is to get an original file, they are like, all "Ughh!" "What?" "Literally?"

Brokenland

I can't help that while on the road I see an image and my old camera dies. I then turn to a smart phone for this image. Later it turns out grainy etc. yet while viewing on a computer monitor the image is somewhat respectable. However, several times my wife has wanted images from the smart phone printed and I keep telling her these are not clear enough for printing.. Now that I have a new camera, I'm hoping to take better images for her and her friends. But till then, The best way to print any or most images from a cell phone is have these printed on canvas as the raised grain of the canvas tends to hide the grainy image. I've experienced this several times as I said with my wife wanting images from my smart phone. In fact we're just weeks away from another doomed image she wants. so I'm hoping aaronbrother's are able to make correction or at least attempt to do so on their own.

The image should be stored within the smart phone. connect the smart phone to the computer via micro/mini USB cable locate the smart device within your files and then scan for the image file location within the smart phone.. Click, drag the image over to you computer or say "send to" etc.

twowindsbear

Don't text the image, instead email the file. Easy-peasy

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Exactly. Many cell phone images have more than enough in them for good printing. But, you have to have the original file.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

If they're using an iPhone and have an iCloud account they can have the pics automatically saved to the cloud. Then you can access it directly from the cloud to print. If you're using someplace like Walgreen's to print you can order the print from your computer and pick it up at your local store in about 30 minutes

berchman Loc: South Central PA

Email the image as an attachment. They will be given a choice of sizes. Tell them to pick the largest size.

ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)

Yep, pretty much what I'm telling them to do.

ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)

That is easy and will work. Comcast limits attachments to 1MB, other ISP's have limits also. Gmail allows up to 25MB so that would work. Yeah, email would do it as long as the phone doesn't compress it to send first.

ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)

Yep, what I am saying.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Tell them to simply email it from the original phone to you. As long as the file is smaller than 10MB you should get the full sized image. Then you can print it.

If it's larger than that, they may have to upload it to DropBox and let you access it that way.

ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)

Yeah, but I wonder what condition the file is in when it lands in the cloud, full size or compressed?

ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)

Yeah, one of the selections is "original size", I always figured that was the best one to choose. I do like the email method as long as the sender's ISP does not impose drastic limits on email attachments like the Comcast 1MB

ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)

Yeah, I think this is the right answer; email. Thanks Hoggers!

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Kids? What are you going to do?

You could get a free Dropbox account, set up shared folders and have them load the App (it's an App, easy). That way you get the full size renders as JPEG files.

BebuLamar

They can simply email you the images directly from their phones and keep it full size. Typical images from phones today ranging from 8 to 12MP which is good enough for most printing.