Expert: Neal Ziring - 4/30/2007

Question
Hi. I've been working on some photos recently and I've come across an anomaly. As I'm after a good quality pic for print material, I take photos at high resolution. However, while the resolution is displayed in Photoshop as 300 dpi, it only shows up as 72 dpi in Corel PhotoPaint. Is there a particular reason for this?

Answer
Mick,

 This is basically a bug in Photopaint.  Many versions
of Photopaint prior to version 13 (X3) would not correctly
read the resolution information from certain image types.
For example, Photopaint 12 would get the resolution
correctly from TIFF files, but not from the EXIF information
on JPEG files.  Photoshop is a bit better about this, it
seems to pick up the resolution information from most
file formats pretty well (as does Photopaint X3).  

 Fortunately, this is pretty easy to fix.  Just hop into
the image resample dialog (Image->Resample..), then check
the box labeled "Maintain original size", then enter a
new resolution value, then click on OK.  Somehow,
Photopaint even maintains this across saves, even though
it hoses the EXIF information.  Go figure!

 Hope this helps...

...nz