Beware of Picasa 3 tinting When I use Picasa 3 for any editing of a photo like cropping, the pictures print on my HP 7560 with faces very reddish. When I use my SD card directly from the camera and crop using the printer, the prints are beautiful. It appears if you use Picasa 3 for anything like red eye removal, it adds heavy tinting on its own. I find the only way around this is to use the "effects" (saturation) and move the slider way to the left to take out the heavy tinting. Anyone else having this problem with Picasa 3? Beware of Picasa 3 tinting When I use Picasa 3 for any editing of a photo like cropping, the pictures print on my HP 7560 with faces very reddish. When I use my SD card directly from the camera and... » Read More Beware of Picasa 3 tinting When I use Picasa 3 for any editing of a photo like cropping, the pictures print on my HP 7560 with faces very reddish. When I use my SD card directly from the camera and crop using the printer, the prints are beautiful. It appears if you use Picasa 3 for anything like red eye removal, it adds heavy tinting on its own. I find the only way around this is to use the "effects" (saturation) and move the slider way to the left to take out the heavy tinting. Anyone else having this problem with Picasa 3? « Show Less
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I bought a HP Photosmart Plus and when printing my pics using Picasa they came out with lines on them. Didn't happen with the old HP (an 1210 Xi all in one). Is there a compatibility issue here?
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I'm thinking of buying this printer. I LOVE using Picasa3. If I buy this particular printer and I will be using Picasa3 and IF I find the same problems you are talking about, I'll get back to you. Thanks for the information you've passed along. I've LOVED my HP Photosmart 7550 but it just quit accepting ANY ink cartridges! Can't find it's problem. Printed beauuuuuutifully.
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I find that I can use the brightness setting on the HP 7560 to correct the Picasa 3 tinting by moving the brightness level to maximum brightness. This gives a good picture but not as good as one straight from the camera using my SD card plugged into the HP 7560 printer.
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Its late to reply, but line are usually a head-alignment issue. I don't know about this printer though.After 5 years of buying "photo" printers and being frustrated with them, I just take my photos to costco or print them online and have them mailed to me. No printers work without a huge fuss, and my experience with sunlight shows that within 6 months of any light exposure they turn yellow and curl. Maybe its improved in the last year, but I doubt it.
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Have you bought the printer? I, too, am thinking of buying this printer and I also LOVE using Picassa. I always edit my pictures on Picassa before printing them. Just curious to see how this is working for you.
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I am unable to answer this question because as long as I have been using these cartridges I have had no problems. However, I print all color on the "high" setting which perhaps makes the difference. I print a lot of colorful greeting cards nd the color always comes out perfectly.
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Doc - Try switching to "neutral" or "Standard" if you are in "Vivid" color mode. Both of those settings provide less contrast, saturation, and sharpening than "Vivid." Those 3 things add noise (and blurring) if used to much - particularly in low light. I think the skin tones look better in Neutral or Standard also. You can add those things back individually in post processing in the computer if you want. "Vivid," however is great for bright sun or bright open shade - and, of course, to capture the most "vivid" colors - but at some price. Color modes are found in 3/3 of the capture menu. Doc - Try switching to "neutral" or "Standard" if you are in "Vivid" color mode. Both of those settings provide less contrast, saturation, and sharpening than "Vivid." Those 3 things add noise (and blurring) if used to much - particularly in low light. I think the skin tones look better in Neutral or Standard also. You can add those things back individually in post processing in the computer if you want. "Vivid," however is great for bright sun or bright open shade - and, of course, to capture the most "vivid" colors - but at some... » Read More Doc - Try switching to "neutral" or "Standard" if you are in "Vivid" color mode. Both of those settings provide less contrast, saturation, and sharpening than "Vivid." Those 3 things add noise (and blurring) if used to much - particularly in low light. I think the skin tones look better in Neutral or Standard also. You can add those things back individually in post processing in the computer if you want. "Vivid," however is great for bright sun or bright open shade - and, of course, to capture the most "vivid" colors - but at some price. Color modes are found in 3/3 of the capture menu. « Show Less
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I have to say, a company such as HP disables only black printing hiding behind the fact that they have to use Yellow to give the grayscale tones. Therefore forces you to buy yellow cartridges. I couldn't fix it using the software that came with the HP. Unless I am missing something massively, it is a way for HP to extract money from paying customers such as us who made the mistake of acquiring an HP printer. (in this case a L7580)
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I used regular resolution, not photo of any type. It seems to work better. This is not glossy photo paper, so the ink adheres differently than it would on photo stock. You won't get that sort of ultra fine resolution. To be fair, I only printed text, but I tried higher resolutions and they actually were worse instead of better. Hope this helps!
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I use Picasa to crop, rotate, change color, etc. to any picture I want to alter. Then I save the alteration by clicking on Apply in the lower right corner and then click save. Picasa is free software from www.picasa.com for photos. I'm not sure if I'm spelling Picasa correctly or not.
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I never compared the two versions, I used the first edition only because it's more compact, light, less expensive, has built in shade what I really like. I use only on Fuji cameras without worries. I heard the version two also have purple fringing issues with some cameras but visible only on large images, also fringing is easy to fix with the latest softwares like Lightroom. I shoot almost exclusively B&W; so color fringing don't bother me so much. V2 might be more corrected but I can't tell.
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My experience with the Pandigital for color and black and white photographs is absolutely wonderful. I love this machine. For negatives I am using another machine a negative converter to digital. You can find them everywhere, in Bestu Buy, Amazon.com and inclusive in Walmart. They are very inexpensive and work wonders on negatives. Again, I love my Pandigital but I use it only for photographs. I hope I was able to help.excelent
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I don't have Pixelmator YET but am going to purchase it in the short term future. IPhoto does a great job of fixing red-eye. Just open your photo, select edit in the lower left of the screen & a red eye option comes up. You can either let IPhoto auto fix the red eye or you can manually fix it yourself. I think it works great!
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This is a great recommendation. I tried it in many outdoor lighting conditions and found the JPEG quality greatly enhanced. I don't have a problem post-processing a little...I use Picasa2 and the results are good enough to add a tad more sharpness and contrast. I'm still experimenting with low light, no flash conditions and getting moderately mixed results. I'd appreciate any guidance in this area. Other than this, I'm most pleased with the performance of the K10d. I've tried most of the shooting modes and found them to be as advertised. I'm a competent amateur, who desires to shoot quality pictures without having to tweak the settings with every shot. This camera is a quality piece of gear. This is a great recommendation. I tried it in many outdoor lighting conditions and found the JPEG quality greatly enhanced. I don't have a problem post-processing a little...I use Picasa2 and the results are good enough to add a tad more sharpness and contrast. I'm still experimenting with low light, no flash conditions and getting moderately mixed results. I'd appreciate any guidance in this area. Other than this, I'm most pleased with the performance of the K10d. I've tried most of the shooting modes and found them to be as advertised. I'm a competent amateur, who desires to shoot quality... » Read More This is a great recommendation. I tried it in many outdoor lighting conditions and found the JPEG quality greatly enhanced. I don't have a problem post-processing a little...I use Picasa2 and the results are good enough to add a tad more sharpness and contrast. I'm still experimenting with low light, no flash conditions and getting moderately mixed results. I'd appreciate any guidance in this area. Other than this, I'm most pleased with the performance of the K10d. I've tried most of the shooting modes and found them to be as advertised. I'm a competent amateur, who desires to shoot quality pictures without having to tweak the settings with every shot. This camera is a quality piece of gear. « Show Less
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Hi Judy O. I'm not sure I experienced that functioning when taking single shots, but if so, never felt bother by it. I believe the longer processing time is due to the size of each image you have chose to store. More to the point, the factory settings (4896x3672)is for better quality images, in order to produce "fine" print quality pictures. The higher the resolution the more processing. You can change the setting to a smaller image size (you have to consider the end product; size, quality and detail of the prints), by going to MENU-(Still Image Size)-desired size. There you should see options from (4896x3672)largest which subsquently allows less images stored, to (640x480)smallest, which allows more images stored. I hope this is helpful and solve you issue.
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I'm afraid that I agree with Ben. If we start cropping and manipulating, we'll find some loss of info owing to the more lossy compression. It probably isn't noticeable under many conditions, Mario, but I don't get the point at all. Less loss gives the photographer more room to crop, do noise reduction, adjust colors, etc. I thought that Canon photos were a bit too smooth to begin with, losing some detail, and this only makes the problem worse. I don't mind not being able to shoot in raw, I guess but losing super fine is going in exactly the wrong direction. Unless Canon are trying to steer us to the G10. And that's an entirely different discussion. I'm afraid that I agree with Ben. If we start cropping and manipulating, we'll find some loss of info owing to the more lossy compression. It probably isn't noticeable under many conditions, Mario, but I don't get the point at all. Less loss gives the photographer more room to crop, do noise reduction, adjust colors, etc. I thought that Canon photos were a bit too smooth to begin with, losing some detail, and this only makes the problem worse. I don't mind not being able to shoot in raw, I guess but losing super fine is going in exactly the wrong direction. Unless Canon are trying to steer... » Read More I'm afraid that I agree with Ben. If we start cropping and manipulating, we'll find some loss of info owing to the more lossy compression. It probably isn't noticeable under many conditions, Mario, but I don't get the point at all. Less loss gives the photographer more room to crop, do noise reduction, adjust colors, etc. I thought that Canon photos were a bit too smooth to begin with, losing some detail, and this only makes the problem worse. I don't mind not being able to shoot in raw, I guess but losing super fine is going in exactly the wrong direction. Unless Canon are trying to steer us to the G10. And that's an entirely different discussion. « Show Less
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I experienced the same problem and cannot print quality pictures, as a result. I am still trying to figure the problem out. I would suggest contacting the makers of the item for assistance. If you find out before I do please let me know. Thank you!
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In the "black" slot, you can either use a black cartridge or a photogray cartridge (#100). Either one will do excellent documents and black-and-white printing, but the photogray cartridge will give you MUCH better photographic reproduction. I tried the two on a sample photo of a pond with ripples on the water. With the black cartridge, the picture was still clear, but the ripples disappeared. In other words, the black cartridge leaves out the nuances in photographs. After that, I never bought another black cartridge.
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I have a Canon elph 750 and a elph 790 new. They are both producing orbs on my pics. My old Fuji finepix 700 does not. They are saying it's because the lens in located too close to the flash and is lighting up dust or mist in the air. My Fuji is long and the lense is far from the flash. They just got carried away with the "small" camera and someone needs to fix it. I'm returning both of these cameras and waiting till they do. It's too common of a problem for them not to address it. No one wants spots on their pictures. They show up on faces too. If anyone knows of a new camera that has fixed this problem please let us know.
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I did not purchase this exact item because I think this is an updated version of the one I originally purchased. I returned it. It was extremely difficult to work with in scanning slides, very slow and the color resolution was awful. I eventually purchased a Canon CanoScan 8800F flatbed scanner from Amazon (probably five years ago) and love it! I scanned almost 15,000 slides and it is still going strong. Easy to work with, great for scanning slides, negatives, photos or documents. I have Windows XP and it is compatible. Remember, I purchased it years ago so I am sure there is an updated version of the one I have. I cannot say enough good about it. Not to mention customer service for Canon products is located in the U.S. I have contacted them twice and always received knowledgeable, understandable and quick resolution to my questions. I think I paid right at $200 for the Canon, but it would be worth it at twice the price. I would strongly encourage you to NOT purchase the Pacific Image unit.
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I get yellow stripes in my photos. I do not know if I am using it incorrectly but I have yet to get a clear picture. I have used it for a while now and if I had to buy it again I probably would not.