Correcting red eye in PhotoImpression 4...does it affect pri

[superman1496]

Just bought an A70 a couple of days ago. I actually went out to get a Kodak camera that I thought was a great deal, 5mp $299, but after seeing the A70 at the same price I got it instead.

Well, having not looked at any reviews of the a70 before hand, I bought it blind you might say. I usually research something very well before buying. The Kodak camera I had found very few bad comments about it, so I felt good about buying it.

I like the camera alot but the redeye kind of puts a damper on it. Had I read about this before hand, I might not have bought it. But I hate to take it back because BestBuy, in all their wisdom, has a 15% restock fee. So it would cost me $45 just to return it. How's that for sticking it to the customer?? Dont like it?? Well, you have to pay to return it. (I would have bought it at CircuitCity, no restock fee, but they didnt carry this model)

Anyway....I see the redeye can be touched up in the PhotoImpression software. However, upon doing this the picture size is altered. Its fair to say it loses close to half of its file size simply by touching up the redeye. I am seeing it go from 1400-1750kb to 975kb and less.

How will this, if any, affect print quality of the photo?? Is losing file size losing resolution too??

The main thing I will be doing as far as prints go it taking a cf card with whatever photos I want printed to a photo lab, and using the Kodak machine to make 4x6 prints.

Will the print picture quality suffer from this re-touching??

[stduc]

The only reason I can think of for the change in file size is that the image has been compressed more than it originally was. The amount of jpg compression should be selectable in the program. Remember jpg is a 'lossy' format, so good practise is always to keep a copy of your original image untouched. Work on the image in a non-lossy format, such as tiff and finally save a jpg to save disk space.

[stopbath]

Seems that Photo Impression is saving at a size other than what you loaded (likely a preset size.)

Use the Save As... feature and save as a new file, and also verify saving quality, and image size. For print images, keep as much quality as you can. For web images (uploading and emailing to friends) go for a smaller reasonable image viewing size (800 pixel or 600 pixel maximum in any one direction and lower the quality to about 50 to 75% )

If you plan on re-editing the image, save as lossless format (such as TIFF or PNG). Only use JPEG in the final step.

[superman1496]

ok. Never thought (or knew) that about the tiff and jpeg formats. I tried "save as" tif after retouching. Wow, the file went to 9mb! Then I converted it back to jpeg and the file size was a touch larger than the original.

Kind of a pain to do all the coverting, but if it gives me optimum quality for printing I guess its worth it.