Photos are fuzzy

my photos look good on the ipad but low resolution when printed or shared. how can i change the setting to take more high resolution pictures?

AFAIK..
What size/resolution are the photos?
I have (as of now) 6100 pics on my iPad. They are great and sharp except for some taken by cheap..er...less expensive camera's. Matter of fact, most of mine were taken on a Canon 5D and it took HOURS for iTunes to optimize them for the iPad because they were VERY LARGE files (lot's of RAW files). A 2 megapixel phone grab or a low-resolution camera pic will 'look' good on an iPod Touch. When you blow that pic up 4x for the iPad screen size you can get artifacts (jaggies and fuzz). Easy way to tell is to pull up the picture on your computer and check it. So far, of the 4 amateur photogs who got iPads with me, we have been blown away by the IPS screen. Sharp and color saturation is UNBELIEVABLE in a portable device. If you really feel somethings wrong, burn the 'full size' .jpeg file to a CD and head to the Apple store (might want to make an appointment..they're busy). They will pull it up on a desktop and see what's up.
Also, the .jpeg format does have some drawbacks...depending on your compression you can actually be generating artifacts into a perfectly good picture.

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I've just switched from an iPod Touch to a new iPad and want to sync some of the photos that I have in iPhoto. These photos looked OK on the Touch, but now it looks as though iTunes is not sizing them to the proper resolution when transferring them to the iPad.
I thought that iPhoto and iTunes worked together to "fix" the images for downloading to the iPad, but it doesn't seem to be working for these photos. What do I need to do? Delete the albums? Re-import the photos into iPhoto?
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I guess you mean iPhone 3GS when you say "3S".
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When I switch from "normal" mode to "preview" mode, the pictures loose a bit of their sharpness and could be considered to be fuzzy. They return to normal when I exit out of preview mode. Is this normal?
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PICTURES ARE FUZZY WHEN IMPORTED TO DVD DISC

I'm new to creating dvds. Pictures are fuzzy when imported to dvd disc ( memorex DVD-R). What am i doing wrong?

Hi
Hard to say as You don't suply any info on
• What photo file format, size You use
• How You go from photo to iDVD
And ! - Please do not Yell ! - Capitalized letters = Yelling in most forums and here a low and polite conversation most often will get better and more rapid results.
Some thoughts about DVD Quality
• DVD can only be SD-Video what ever tool used to encode it. And that is much less than what Your Mac screen can show.
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iMovie'08 to 11 - discard every second line = less resolution
iMovie HD6 and FinalCut - full interlaced video over to iDVD (as good as it can be)
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DVD quality
1. iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1)
iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality (movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST
• Best Performances (movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6) (movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
About double on DL DVDs.
2. Video from
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• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
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HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
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_ BD-Player or PlayStation3 - to be able to playback
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• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
• Audio is most often more critical than picture. Bad audio and with dropouts usually results in a non-viewed movie.
• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
iMovie 1 to HD6 and FinalCut any version delivers same quality as Camera record in = 100% to iDVD
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other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
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strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
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(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are play-backed by a Mac - then You need not to care
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• How You encode and burn it. Two settings prior iDVD’08 or 09
Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
Yours Bengt W

Imported iphotos are fuzzy???

i just got my wife a new macbook pro. I copied all her i photos to an external hard drive and then loaded them onto the new Macbook pro. Seemed everything worked like a charm until we went to view some older photos. The resolution on the photos i imported is very poor but were crystal clear on her previous laptop. Seems that when i imported the photos it resized everything to a much smaller photo so when i go to view them at a normal size the photos are very fuzzy. Any idea how t fix this??

i just got my wife a new macbook pro. I copied all her i photos to an external hard drive and then loaded them onto the new Macbook pro. Seemed everything worked like a charm until we went to view some older photos. The resolution on the photos i imported is very poor but were crystal clear on her previous laptop. Seems that when i imported the photos it resized everything to a much smaller photo so when i go to view them at a normal size the photos are very fuzzy. Any idea how t fix this??
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