[Walker]

I purchased a SanDisk 1 gb Cruzer Mini flash drive for the sole purpose of saving digital pictures on it and taking it to my photo developing store for processing. Usually I burn CD's but thought it would be easier with the flash drive.

My process is I simply export the digital photos from iPhoto into a saved folder. Then I drag this folder onto my flash drive. I take the flash drive to the store, and they load it onto their pc's.

My first batch of photos came great back except for a few heavily pixelated ones (about 10 out of 150). These photos looked like someone used a 640X480 digital and made a 16 X 20 photo print out of it.

So I tried the whole process again except this time with only 5 photos. Sure enough, a couple of them came out all pixelated. This time I they let me look at the contents of the flash drive on their computer. For some reason their computer showed different files than I had when viewed the same flash drive on my computer. The files that turned out pixelated were listed with a different name than what I had on my computer.

I brought the flash drive back home and the contents were back to normal.

The only thing that I can think is going on is that I used photoshop to digitally enhance some of these photos and maybe the PC isn't reading them correctly (it's almost like the pc is creating a separate file for the "thumbnail" image). But the original files are saved in the .jpg format and most of them are printing out just fine. Why some of them are becoming pixalated I have no idea. The format of the drive is Macintosh PC exchange (MS-DOS).

Anyone know what is going on?

lw

[rozwado1]

Give us a 'step-by step' walkthrough from the camera to the printer. Do you do a 'drag and drop' from iPhoto to your Flash drive? If you're only using PS and iPhoto, maybe iPhoto is accidentally putting thumbs where the images should be on your Flash. Which pics are distorted - the PS'd ones, or is it just random?

edit: make this your sig.

[Walker]

Sorry. Don't know the exact procedure. I'll try it again next week and will remember exactly what I'm doing.

lw

ps...great sig...but make it a "south dakota" ranger

[Walker]

Finally got around to it.

It's quite simple. I export a picture from iPhoto to the desktop. I drag that photo picture from the desktop to the sandisk flash drive. While it is on my computer, it shows that the flash drive contains one picture. I take it to the photo developer store and plug it into their PC, the flash drive now shows 2 files. The one that I dragged, and also a very low resolution copy of the one that I drive (almost like a thumbnail).

This gets to be a problem when I want to be able to simply drop off my flash drive at the store and get everything on it developed. Can't do it because those damn low resolution files make terribly pixelated prints.

lw