I have been printing 8X10s from my Nikon CP900 to a HP PhotoSmart printer using PhotoDelux and MS PictureIt with excellent results. Today I downloaded a trial copy of Thumbs+ and printed an 8X10 similar to another previously printed picture. The shot was of four people sitting around a thanksgiving table. And it came out terrible. The skin tones were blotchy and uneven in low light areas where they should have been a smooth, warm tone. I had cropped the original download and did little else to it in Thumbs. Any ideas why I got such poor quality?

-- Bob Benson (benson@gbasin.com), March 23, 1999

Answers

It sounds like your image is suffering from compression artifacts. Most programs that can save images in lossy formats like JPG will offer some way to select the desired compression. I'm not terribly familiar with Thumbs+, but see if there are options like Compression or Quality available when you save the file, or perhaps in some preferences menu. It may be defaulting to a higher compression than you would like (say display quality vs. print quality)

-- Matt Chroust (matthew.chroust@nellcorpb.com), March 26, 1999.