How to Create Quality Photo Prints With Free Software

Freeware program Google Picasa can create excellent quality photo prints that’ll only cost you a download.

Here’s a short list of various graphic programs that are good for a bit of light printing.

Let’s take a look at how to print quality photographs in Picasa.

In addition to these features, Picasa is a solid program for printing photographs.

This is the print window, as opposed to the edit window in the previous screenshot.

poke the

to bring up your printer options once you’ve brought up your print window.

Accepting the default prefs, we’ll print this image on standard typing paper with ordinary prefs.

The

button will send your image to your printer with the default controls.

Let’s take a look.

Here’s a color unedited shot of an actual print of this image on regular typing paper.

The colors are slightly more saturated in your web internet tool, but the result is still fairly good.

This driver dialog box has several presets for various kinds of prints, including basic photo prints.

This printer, being an HP machine, has built in presets for HP papers.

Setting it to “Other” photo papers, we can make some other minor adjustments to improve quality.

You’ll have similar options, even though they may not be as obvious.

This is another color unedited photograph of an actual photo print of this sample image, printed from Picasa.

Here’s an color unedited comparison of the two photo prints.

The left is printed on regular typing paper, with the right printed on glossy photo stock.

Image Credit:Jackson’s Chameleon 2in public domain.