Printing - Beginning Notes

I've struggled with recording new videos for two weeks. Last night it hit me - do a hard reset on iPad to see if that clears out the gremlins. Yep. Too late for today's class. A good lesson when apps are not behaving as you expect (different from not getting the result you want), a "hard reset" is to power off the device and power it up again. Most of the time I put devices into sleep and rarely power off. 

My preferred printing operation is Costco. Convenient and very reasonable in cost. Phillippe Callioux, a member of the Palo Alto Camera Club, wrote a blog post in 2009: Getting Good Prints at Costco that is a good link to read now and re-read often. Even if you are printing at home or through another service bureau.

In reading the comments to this post this gem screams out to me:

BrandonBarrett says:
September 28, 2015 at 12:03 am
"I would highly recommend saving any photo you want to print out as a PNG file, preferably from a RAW file that was edited in photoshop. When you save to JPEG, you lose a lot of detail. If you save as a PNG you keep the full resolution. I was able to upload my PNG image at Costco and have a 20×30 printed out. The file size was 51Mb. I gotta say, the print looks amazing! Very detailed with no noise."

So much to learn ...

Updated added 8/31/2018
Printing chart for 8 MP and 12 MP iPhone Cameras (MP = megapixel). This chart was posted in our Shared Album for Spring 2018, but that reference will soon be closed. Jill Emmer article https://iphonephotographyschool.com/print-iphone-photos/ > How big can you make a print.