How can I improve the quality of my picture?.....

[nEoTeChMaN]

I've been working with some family pictures with Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and I saved it to a floppy as .bmp image.

When I printed out some pictures using a color printer..it look chopping especially on the edge of the person.

Am I using the wrong image format?

I know that jpg is not the highest quality format and it is .bmp the wrong format?

 

[BCYL]

bmp offers higher quality pictures than jpg or gif... but I am not sure about tiff though, you might wanna give that a try...

However, it can also be due to your printer instead of your file formats...

 

[aUt0eXebat]

i dont think its the image, it could be your printer or printer quality settings

 

[Ladi]

Make sure you're working in no lower than screen resolution (72 dpi) -- which is visually what most printers can print and up to 300dpi ideally (standard print resolution). Also, check that you're printing at 100% of the image size, not stretching it to fit printable area on the page. Finally, if you're printing straight from photoshop, just use the *.psd to print from. Otherwise, tiff is your best bet (lossless format most often used in print).

~Ladi