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puma guy wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:

puma guy wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:I shoot photos on a Canon Rebel XTi and use the highest quality (a/k/a largest) setting. My CHL photos are almost 4 MB each! In the last three weeks, I've had 3 students contact me about DPS rejecting photos, some allegedly are "grainy" and two "pixelated." They aren't. Each received a letter about the photos after DPS had the application for quite some time.

Are any other instructors having this problem?

Chas.

Are these prints that are attached to the application or digital files sent electronically? If I recall the photos are approximately passport size, approx 2" x 2" and are physically attached to the app. That sized print made from a 4mb file should have excellent resolution and any pixelating would be quite obvious. I guess the term grainy could be used but that's really a term for negative based prints.

They are passport photos I take during the class and you're right about file size and pixelating. DPS doesn't take digital photos; the ones L-1 sends to DPS are for identification purposes only.

Chas.

I thought I remembered you supplying the photos when I took your class. If you resubmit the same photo and it passes there's something going on, me thinks. Have you any been resent?

kahrfreak wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:I shoot photos on a Canon Rebel XTi and use the highest quality (a/k/a largest) setting. My CHL photos are almost 4 MB each! In the last three weeks, I've had 3 students contact me about DPS rejecting photos, some allegedly are "grainy" and two "pixelated." They aren't. Each received a letter about the photos after DPS had the application for quite some time.

What format are you sending them in as? If you are using a lossy compression scheme such as JPEG, resampling them to 2" x 2" will result in the artifacts you've described. If you're sending them in a lossless format (such as LZW embedded in a TIF file format), then DPS (or whomever) is resampling them incorrectly.

puma guy wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:I shoot photos on a Canon Rebel XTi and use the highest quality (a/k/a largest) setting. My CHL photos are almost 4 MB each! In the last three weeks, I've had 3 students contact me about DPS rejecting photos, some allegedly are "grainy" and two "pixelated." They aren't. Each received a letter about the photos after DPS had the application for quite some time.

Are any other instructors having this problem?

Chas.

Are these prints that are attached to the application or digital files sent electronically? If I recall the photos are approximately passport size, approx 2" x 2" and are physically attached to the app. That sized print made from a 4mb file should have excellent resolution and any pixelating would be quite obvious. I guess the term grainy could be used but that's really a term for negative based prints.