Photopass download quality?

SarahFarra

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There are just a few photos I want from our recent trip on our Photopass account. I had first thought I would just buy prints but does anyone have experience with the download option? It says "high res" but how great is the quality? Also, what does the "limited license document" allow me to do? Can I print these just as I normally would my own photos? Any feedback on this option is appreciated! Thank you! :)
 
I bought the plus so I had lots of downloads. I think the smallest was about 600k or 2016 × 1344. They got bigger from there.
 
The quality will vary depending on the photo and the crop. For instance, on our recent DLR trip, the images provided by California Screamin', ToT, and Space Mountain all were 3840x2560 in the original format. However, if you edit the picture by cropping it, the size will obviously go down. I believe the older Photopass cameras had a 6MB sensor, so those source photos would have been similar in size. Can't recall what they are shooting with now. Hig h Res basically means that they won't down sample the image any. So you can get prints with it, where a "Low Res" image is one that might be suitable just to post to Facebook.

The limited license document is just their legalese that says you can basically make prints of the image for non commercial use. You can't sell it, or use it commercially in any fashion. So as long as you were just getting the download so that you can make your own prints to hang on the wall, stick in a digital picture frame, use for the holiday cards etc you will be fine. Some photo processing places will refuse to print pictures that they think may have come from a professional photographer unless you have a release to prove that you can make prints. This keeps people from buying one copy of a wedding photo, scanning it, and then making prints to give to all their friends instead of buying them from the photographer.
 

An update on this...the download option is totally worth it and way better than buying prints for the same price! The quality is great and you can obviously print as many copies as your little heart desires or use them for online purposes!
 
Yes. It's the same exact digital files, but instead of burning them to a CD, they just stick em in a zip file and have you download them.


You still have the option of getting the CD rther than a zip file downlodis that correct ?
As far as the legalise just thought I'd mention Wal~Mart & Walgreens I've printed at n past with no problems
 
As far as the legalise just thought I'd mention Wal~Mart & Walgreens I've printed at n past with no problems

Did you have to show WalMart a copy of the limited license. At our local WalMart (and Sam's Club; also owned by WalMart), they will not print out any pictures that appear to be professionally taken without a release.
 
Did you have to show WalMart a copy of the limited license. At our local WalMart (and Sam's Club; also owned by WalMart), they will not print out any pictures that appear to be professionally taken without a release.

they never questioned and I even had a book printed at Wal~Mart from the WDW CD that was mailed to me after the Wild Africa Trek tour I did (not cheapbut so worth ever dollar)

Anyway the legalise is clearly included on the CD giving the permission to print when you load the CD at the store or your own PC you can find it in a thumbnail right before your pictures if they still won't tell a mgr ridiculous & what I did at Lakeland FL store US Hwy 98 they did an amazing job by the way !
 
thanks I was hoping to get an answer I like having the CD in hand for many reasons especially for what I posted above thanks again :-)
 
Question... We recently did the photopass + for the first time. We got our CD photo expecting to be able to blow up our photos, bigger that 4 x6 WITHOUT losing resolution, but DH said it's not an option??? Basically we will just be stretching the photo, and will lose clarity. Is that what everyone else has found????? Very disappointed, I guess I thought I would be able to print my photos larger and still look good..
 
Question... We recently did the photopass + for the first time. We got our CD photo expecting to be able to blow up our photos, bigger that 4 x6 WITHOUT losing resolution, but DH said it's not an option??? Basically we will just be stretching the photo, and will lose clarity. Is that what everyone else has found????? Very disappointed, I guess I thought I would be able to print my photos larger and still look good..

Hope someone has an answer for all of us I've been buying photopass since first offered...best thing since sliced bread IMHO, and never tried or even thought about it quite honestly
Now that you said it I can think of some pictures that would be awesome as 8 x 10
 
I just got our photopass download a couple of weeks ago. They come as zip files and then when you open them the pics save as to your computer as normal jpg files. It was a very easy process. I uploaded a bunch to shutterfly to order prints. I ordered one in an 8x10 some 5x7s and lots of 4x6s. The quality of all of them was great. Just checked my shutterfly account and even when I choose the largest choice (20x30) I don't get the low res/ low quality warning. I checked both for some of the original ones and also ones that I cropped/edited. So I have been very very pleased with the quality.

I was glad they now have the download option. If I would have gotten the CD I would have just immediately saved them to my computer anyway. It is easy enough to save them onto a CD if you are concerned about back-up or want another copy. The only negative for me about the download was it took 3 days before it was available. I would have thought it would have been more immediate. Not sure if that is normal though.
 
According to DH, downloads will always be better quality. We either didn't know about the downloads option, or maybe that is new since we got back from our last trip, Halloween. All of our pics were sent on the cd in a 4 x 6 size, so when we went to make them bigger, we started losing quality.
 




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