Good evening. We are going to just give it a few seconds to see who might join us tonight. And our topic is something fun. The title is Does Size Matter? And normally when you think about taking pictures, you do want to have a larger size file. So I want to just show you something real quick before I officially start our program tonight.
You know how you get those little printouts from events where they have photo booths and you love these? These are like souvenirs or memorabilia, and sometimes the photos are really important. Well, I had this taken back in October, and I was experimenting with pictures. I ordered a version of that picture. I thought I had cropped it, and I ordered an 11 by 14 copy of it, and it came out so beautiful. Like, it’s a really good photo.
And I was like, how is that possible? This is a mystery. We are going to explore a little bit together tonight.
So with that being said, I would like to welcome everybody to Live With Mollie. It is Tuesday, February 26th, and I am just going to go into the chat area here. Please feel free to let me know where you are watching from. It would be great to know.
And of course, on every Live With Mollie, which I mean to have on Thursday evenings at 6:30 Central, you can ask questions. Go ahead and throw them in the chat and I’ll get to them towards the end of the program. I would love for people to just say hi, because then that lets me know you can hear me.
I have to say, I’m running a little bit by the seat of my pants tonight because last week we went on our cruise to the Bahamas. It was our great photo journey, and I’m going to just give you a quick glimpse of some of the things that we did.
Let me just share my screen here and get you up to seeing some of the photos that I started. Well, I actually see them every day. On the trip, I uploaded my pictures to Forever.
Here you can see we went on a photo walk, and my friend Krista gave people photo tips. We had a great time. Days three and four, we were at sea, so we had classes. I only have one photo from the third day, but on the fourth day we definitely had more time for some classes on saving photos.
I really can’t say enough about bringing people together who love their photos like we do. And if you’re here on my channel, I’m thinking it’s because you love your memories and you want to enjoy them too. So we had a great time. We are planning to have a 2027 cruise in January. We’re planning the details and hopefully we’ll be able to talk to you about that soon.
Now I am so glad to see Patricia here from Nashville. That’s awesome. And Dolores, good to see you here from Tucson. Thank you so much.
I have to mention that tonight I have not done my pre-check, so I’m so glad that you guys can hear me. I’m using a different microphone, so hopefully it’s okay.
A few pieces of housekeeping for tonight. If you are catching this on Spotify, you definitely want to go over to our YouTube channel and watch us live there. I do share visuals and things that might help you learn from some of the things that I talk about.
I also wanted to let you know that we do have a couple upcoming events. One of them is Thursday, March 12th. That’s two weeks away from today. I’m doing a live Forever question and answer call, so we won’t have Live With Mollie that week. The next program where you can come in and ask questions and learn from some of the topics that I talk about will be March 19th.
We are also missing March 5th because my son will be graduating from boot camp and I’ll be in Cape May.
While you are watching tonight, this is a perfect time to scroll through your phone and delete some photos you know you’ll never need again. We always want to be thinking about deleting some pictures so that your photos are easier to manage after a period of time.
We are coming to the end of February, so that means it’s time to save February’s photos on Sunday. One of the ways that you do that is you go and delete the things you’ll never need again. Photos for information, screenshots, things you’re going to buy and maybe did buy or didn’t buy. Just get rid of the junk. That’s a great start.
Okay, let’s talk about what size photos should be. When I shared my example and ordered an 11 by 14 print, you do want a picture to be fairly large, I thought.
Over the years we have had situations where people think they have the picture the size they want, but when they go to get it printed, it’s pixelated. So we’re going to cover a few different aspects of this dilemma that occur to people. That’s what I really thought I was facing when I ordered this print of my son.
This is the actual photo from the photo booth. You could get the printout, and you can see here it’s 240 kB. This photo here is what I had printed. I tested this around Christmas time. One of our clients wanted to know how something would print, so I thought I cropped this picture and then I ordered the print from Forever. It did take a little bit to get here, but the quality was so outstanding.
I thought, well, does size matter anymore? Because with things getting better and better for our photos, maybe it doesn’t in the same way.
So this is 240 kB. I always like for people to start being familiar with photo sizes. On a grid, 240 kilobytes comes into a small area. It may be possible to make a 4 by 6 print. I was like, what? How is that possible?
Sometimes when you’re looking at photo sizes, you’ll also see something called pixels. Pixels are more typically associated with people who are wanting to print pictures at a certain size. An 11 by 14 is huge—around 3300 by 4200 pixels.
When I looked more closely, I realized the company that took the photo actually sent us a link. I went back to my text messages from the wedding of my dear friend Christy. When you’re at an event and you want those pictures, you always want to get the digital versions of them.
I still had the text message in my phone. I clicked on it and realized the company let me download the full version of the pictures. Back in October, I downloaded those photos immediately to my phone, and I had the full version of the picture. It was way bigger than the 240 kB that I thought I was working with.
This is the photo I actually ordered the 11 by 14 from, and it came out really nice.
The moral of the story is when you’re at an event and there’s a photo booth, put your email in or text your phone number so that you can get the pictures. Then you can actually get a photo printed that’s really substantial.
This photo means the world to me. My son has been in boot camp since December 16th. He’s going to graduate next Friday. It’s been 13 weeks, and it was a little iffy there for a while. But he’s going to make us proud.
I’ve always been the one positioning people and telling them to smile for pictures. At some point my husband started going along with it and would tell Alex, “Smile for your mother.” He started doing this thumbs-up thing, and it really means a lot to me.
We were able to talk with him this weekend while he had Liberty. I was snapping screenshots while we were on FaceTime. I said, “Could you just smile for me so I can get a nice picture of you?” And there he is—thumbs up.
So yes, size does matter. Watch your photo sizes and then order the size that you want. It’s so rewarding when you can have a picture printed that you like. Printed photos are still very special in this day and age.
Now I’m going to transition to a couple questions that have come across my radar.
One question was about Adobe Bridge. Adobe Bridge is a program that allows you to reorder digital pictures, rename them, and add metadata. It’s a bit of a complicated program, and usually you use just a few features.
Mary was renaming a big batch in an album and must have hit something she shouldn’t have. She realized her desktop didn’t look right and she couldn’t figure out how to reset Adobe Bridge back to its original settings.
Adobe Bridge allows you to customize your screen. This is called the workspace. If areas get mixed up, you can go to Workspace in the menu and click on Essentials to get back to the standard view.
Another question was from Debbie, who has around 150,000 photos in Apple Photos saved in iCloud. That is a massive amount of pictures.
Her question was about using the PhotoMyne app together with Apple Photos. PhotoMyne is an app to scan pictures, slides, and negatives. It’s not a true scan—it’s taking a picture of a picture with special software.
You can scan a photo in PhotoMyne, then use the share icon and save the selected photo to your camera roll. From there it appears in Apple Photos.
However, you’re not going to get as good of quality from PhotoMyne as you would from a flatbed scanner or something like the Epson FastFoto. In a pinch, it’s great. For higher-quality output, a dedicated scanner is better.
We’ve also used PhotoMyne for oversized items that are hard to scan otherwise.
Dolores mentioned uploading negatives and using the Wolverine slide and negative scanner from Amazon. That’s a good option if you want to do negatives yourself without the expense of a flatbed scanner with a light source.
When looking for devices on Amazon, always check reviews. Some models allow you to connect to a TV and save images to a memory card.
We also talked about Forever account managers. You can have more than one account manager. An account manager can manage the account, add descriptions, and tags, but cannot delete pictures.
There are pros and cons to having multiple account managers. You’ll want to talk with your family about who should manage the account versus just being a connection. Connections can still view and download but can’t edit.
All right. We are going to wrap up here.
Remember to save February’s photos. Whether you use Forever, another provider, or just folders on your computer, the best habit is to save your photos monthly. At the end of the year, you’ll have 12 months of folders and can easily make a photo book or calendar.
If you don’t have questions, I hope it’s because you’re working on your pictures and saving them in some way. Questions arise when you start doing the work.
Next week we are off. In two weeks we have our Forever question and answer call. Then on March 19th, I’ll be back here answering more questions with another good topic to share.
Thank you so much for joining tonight. We will see you next time. Take care. Bye-bye.
