photo resolution

[Riaz]

What resolution does OE use to display photos? I used to
be able to size a photo to 5x7 @ 72dpi and have it
display/print at actual size in OE. Now it seems to be
much smaller. Can anyone shed some light on this?

 

[Roady]

Ask in an Outlook Express forum. This is an Microsoft Office Outlook forum.

Outlook Express is family of Internet Explorer and Outlook of the Office
family.

Here is the link for the right forum
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer

Good Luck!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

OE uses the size of the picture on your hard drive unless you resize it
before sending (winxp has a resize before sending option)

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[Gary R.]

Perhaps when you were doing this before, you were using a monitor set to,
for example, 800x600 resolution, so the photo looked rather large. If
you've changed to a newer monitor and/or set the screen to a higher
resolution, the same screen is showing more pixels, therefore they have to
be smaller to fit in the same area.

Outlook Express (and Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.) pay no attention to
the dpi/ppi setting, they simply display the photo on a pixel for pixel
basis, and your monitor is set to display a fixed number of pixels in height
and width.

The printer will print the same thing as it ever did, regardless of what
you're seeing on the monitor. It reads the sizes, and the ppi, and prints
accordingly. Unfortunately, 72 or even 96 ppi isn't really enough for a
good quality print, you need 150 ppi or more. These will appear much larger
on the monitor than they will on the printer, because they contain more
pixels, there's no way around that except to size one file for viewing,
another for printing.