[ILUG] Good photo printing

[John P. Looney]

 I've a nice fancy Epson 900 of some sort, that does excellent job of
printing photos. I've seen printouts from it, and they rock. I've a
problem though. I'm going to get seriously slagged by the girlfriend if I
buy a digital camera (to replace an analog one) that'll produce nice
photo's that can't be put in a paper photo album.

 I've tryed (with the gimp) to print out photos. But they look crap. I've
also tryed with gimp in windows, using the standard microsoft printing
mechanism. I select "glossy photo paper" the whole works. But I can't get
anything to do something like "print to an a6 size page, really high
quality". To test it, I was using reasonably high quality jpeg's from
photo.net.

 If someone could give advice on how to print - and possibly as
importantly - where to get good example hi-res photo images, I'd be dead
chuffed.

 Also, how hard is it to make a photo album type thing that could be
played on a consumer DVD player ? I think most DVD player's play video
CDs...

John

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