IPhoto low quality message

Building a book and when holding mouse over an image, I get the "This photo may print at too low a quality" message but the yield icon is not appearing. Can I ignore the warning?
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Yes you can -- at your own risk - apple will not stand behind the print quality of a photo that has the low resolution warning - it comes on if the photo will be below 180 dpi
So depending on the exact situation you can ignore the warning, select a different photo, reduce the cropping or select a smaller photo frame.
See this page for additional hints -- http://www.apple.com/support/photoservices/preparation_tips/
LN

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Iphoto low quality pictures

I'm making a photobook and it says a few of my pictures may print at a lower quality. I'm just wondering what lower quality means: its a little pixelated or completely blurry. Any suggestions?

You can create a PDF of the book according to this Apple Document and check it to see if the image will meed your expectations: iPhoto, Aperture: Previewing an order in iPhoto or Aperture
Not actually a good test as a 72 DPI image looks perfect on a display screen but prints terrible - best to go by actual printed DPI rather than screen display since a screen is a totally different anminal and both colors and resolution work completely differently for screens
Apple's suggested minimum pixel dimensions for disserent size prints are in the link I provided
doing the calulation I recommended is the best idea
the basic rule is that photo smust be 150 DPI or more for good prints - so you divide the pixels in each dimension by the inches being printed in that difection - if the answer is 149 then things should be fine - it is is 25 then things will be very bad
LN

IPhoto book low quality warning?

I've created an iPhoto book. I'm ready to buy it but I get a warning that some of the photos are too low quality for the type of book I've chosen. Yet all photos were imported at 300dpi and there's no warning on any one photo that the quality is low. How do I determine which photo(s) are the low quality ones?

I've created an iPhoto book. I'm ready to buy it but I get a warning that some of the photos are too low quality for the type of book I've chosen. Yet all photos were imported at 300dpi and there's no warning on any one photo that the quality is low. How do I determine which photo(s) are the low quality ones?
digital photos do not have a "DPI" until you select a size to print them - See The Myth of DPI for additional information.
someplace in the book you have places a photo which will not be at least 180 dpi when printed at the size frame you placed it in - if you have carefully gone through the book and do not see and low res warnings it is possible that there is a full page photo behind another full page photo - this can make it difficult to find
Before ordering your book preview it using this method - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1040 - and save the resulting PDF for reference - the delivered book will match it.
LN
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After import from Iphoto some pictures are of very low quality. The original file in Iphoto is very good.

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I imported several pictures by using Iphoto. Some of them, not all, are of very low quality even if the original file is of a very good quality.

It sounds as though you may have imported the thumbnails but I can't imagine how.
It all depends on what you mean by very low quality.
Your iPhoto pictures will be around 4,000x3,000 pixels but when they are imported into a standard def timeline they will be around 720x540 which is a tremendous reduction.
They should still look OK but not as good as the brilliant hi-res originals.
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When using Lightroom Book module for Blurb book making, why do I keep getting a low image quality message if it's supposedly accessing my large raw files in my library?

When using Lightroom Book module for Blurb book making, why do I keep getting a low image quality message if it's supposedly accessing my large raw files in my library?

I think I've solved my problem with a Google Search. I came across a free slide show generator
(contributions requested) that shows much higher quality slide shows than either iPhoto or Aperture 3.
You click on a folder of jpegs and it almost immediately generates thumbnails and within a few seconds
I can be viewing a full screen, tack sharp, slideshow of all of the files in the folder. Much sharper than
I'm used to seeing.
I think I'll keep the Aperture 3 and use if for the purpose it's intended for in the future. I'll also redo the
image preview files to the small size it started with and then I'll copy all of the files I'm interested in from
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on but I won't try to use it as an iPhoto replacement. I don't think I'll be using iPhoto much as an image
viewer in the future either after I finish moving my favorite pictures to the Phoenix Slides folder.
The name of the free program is Phoenix Slides. It's free to download and try, free to keep (though I
think you'd want to pay the small amount requested) and fast. My pictures have never looked so good
before.
http://blyt.net/phxslides/
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HT1044 Will an iphoto order print with low quality warnings on it?

Will an iphoto order print with low quality warnings on it?

I think so but if you're orderikng large photos they may be a bit fuzzy depending on the pixel dimensions. What are the pixel dimensions of the image giving the warning and what size print are you ordering?
Here are the results of a print test that I ran. The pixel dimensions are the minimum that won't give a warning for the sizes shown:
OT

Just upgraded, low quality warning on all photos?

Hi All,
Hoping someone can assist me here. Just upgraded to iPhoto 6 and was experimenting with the greeting card function. Apparently, all of my photos (unretouched & uncropped) which are 1704 x 2272 at 180 dpi are too low quality to print reliably. I'm trying to print the images at 5x7 or smaller, and as far as I understand 1704 x 2272 should be adequate, but I get the low quality warning on every picture in my library. I use a Canon Digital Elph S400 at maximum resolution/quality, am I going to need a higher megapixel camera to produce images of sufficient quality for the online printing services? Any advice appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Jennifer

Jennifer:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Sound like somethings broken in iPhoto. First run Disk Utility and repair disk permissions. Then, if needed, go to your User/Library/Caches folder and delete the iPhoto folder there.
Next, log into another account on your Mac and see if you can create a card and not get the warnings. If so then your primary account has some incompatibility with iPhoto. If you get the warning then it's probably iPhoto and you'll need to reinstall iPhoto. If you do have to reinstall iPhoto you'll have to delete the current application and all files with "iPhoto" in the file name that reside in the HD/Library/Receipts folder. Be sure to repair disk permissions after the installation and updates.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.

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I have a calendar made in iphoto 9. When trying to save to PDF or previewing a low quality warning, which I can only partially read, appears and the rest of page is blank. I have checked the photos on the page and replaced them. I don't understand why this is happening. I have saved this same calendar before as a PDF with no problems. I recently made a few changes, but not on the page that the warning is appearing on. There is a red alert icon on one of the calendar pages and oddly it has moved. It was on one month and now it's on another month. I don't want to redo the entire calendar. Please help. Thanks.

Have you previewed this way -
Before ordering your book preview it using this method - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1040 - and save the resulting PDF for reference - the delivered book will match it.
what is the physical size and what are the pixel dimensions of the photo with the low quality warning?
LN

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I'm sorry no one has jumped on this in two days. I think you have us stumped. I've tried changing some video settings on several of our G4 Macs but that either affects all image apps or doesn't simulate the problem.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121950&tstart=0
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I don’t know if it's just a problem with my (new) Aperture Trial library or if it's a Aperture 3 bug:
The preview images Aperture 3 (trial) creates from raw files (in my case NEFs) are different from the JPEGs exported using the same JPEG settings.
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Hi,
I have spent several hours working on an iPhoto book. Several of my pictures are pictures I scanned into iPhoto from a traditional photo. Anytime I use these pictures, a yellow trianlge with an exclamation mark comes up. It says the quality of these pictures is low. Will it look okay if i print the book anyway?
Removing all the pictures isn't really an option since they make up more than 50% of my book.
Thanks for any and all responses!!!!

Looking OK is a personal opinion - no one other that you can make that judgement
What we can say is that if you have the low quality warning the photo quality will not be as good as if you had a higher resolution photo that did not get the warning
In cases where I wanted a photo and had no ability to get a higher resolution photo I have used them
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LN

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