Can pictures transfered in automatical sized the way you wan

The Old Timer · Post by **The Old Timer** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:56 am

If I use the transfer wizard in Windows XP to take camera pictures onto my PC I find that the pictures are all sized as if they were for display on at PC at 96 DPI. I can see the logic behind this but if I then open these images in PhotoImpact they are all too wide to display on the screen or If I wish to print them they haven't enough DPI's to print properly. In an effort to avoid having to resize them all with deleting pixels I was wondering if it's possible to choose the set the setting before the transfer.?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 9:43 pm

Digital images don't have a size as such, they have a certain number of pixels for the width and the height. Any resolution higher than 92 ppi (pixels per inch) are not going to give you a better display.

Your images are not sized during transfer. For viewing on the PC screen, use the Zoom.

You should only size your images for printing, even then it's not really neccessary. All you need to know is the aspect ratio in order to pick the right format paper for the print. 4 x 6 inches is an aspect ratio of 1.5 (one side is 1.5 times the other), 5 x 7 is 1.4 etc. You get the aspect ratio when you divide the long side of your images by the short side.

If you want your images to fill your screen, PC or TV for that matter, you may have to crop the image to get the correct aspect ratio (4:3 or 16:9 etc.)