Saul,
If you're not going to use an image manipulation program to resize your
image (like Photo Paint, Photo Shop, or dozens of others), then 640x480
pixels with the finest quality setting is the best way to go for use on the
internet and for auction pictures. With decent lighting on the poster, you can
get a pretty good picture that will be large, but not so large that most
computers and websites will choke on it. That's basically the resolution of a
standard television picture.
That's not the truly best way to go, however. The best way is to shoot
at higher resolution (still using fine quality mode), take the picture from
the camera into your computer, open it in an image manipulation
program and then resize the image down to something more manageable for auctions
and web pages. The higher resolution of the original will be translated
into the smaller image, resulting in much greater detail than you would get just
going with a standard 640x480 right out of the camera. You can also use the
image manipulation program to adjust the brightness and contrast before
shrinking the original down to help compensate for any lighting of
the poster which may not have been ideal. But doing this requires an
additional couple of steps that many people don't want to go through, and so
640x480 is the best option for them.
-- JR
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- Re: [MOPO] Take your Best Shot ... JR
- Re: [MOPO] Take your Best Shot ... Saul H. Chapman, Ph.D