Lots of questions:
I did try The Google, FWIW, but am having difficulty finding answers specific to my situation.
Thanks!
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It’s some time since I used an iPhone. They were certainly JPEGs when I was using one, but I vaguely remember reading that Apple were introducing a new format with better or less destructive compression. Whether or not that replaces JPG by default I don’t know. You’ll kind of answer this one yourself when you try to embed the file, though.
It will depend on your exact requirements and the nature of the image, but I’d expect so. Flagship smartphone pics are surprisingly resilient to zooming and cropping.
If you have an iCloud account and the iCloud client on your computer, you should be able to get the photo from there. If not, the foolproof method would be to email it from the phone to an email address you can access from the computer you want to use Publisher on, and download it like any other attachment.
The iPhone is simply an external hard drive. So…
Plug the phone into the computer using the USB cable used to charge the phone.
Wait a few seconds for the pop up on the phone asking if you would like to share photos with the computer. Click to agree to that.
Go to your File Explorer on the computer and look for the iPhone down the left hand side - click on that.
Drill down to the folder on your phone that contains your photos - you will possibly have multiple folders - you will need to hunt around to find where the phone has put the most recent photo files.
Drag and drop or copy the ones you want to your computer.
It should be JPEG by default. Publisher can support most common formats, so it doesn’t matter here. JPEGs are designed to be small in file size but are a lossy compression method. It looks like screenshots are PNG, which is a superior format and usually barely larger.
You don’t say which iPhone. Current models are 12 megapixels which should be sufficient for blowing up a decent size unless you changed the default size. The forward facing camera is also lower resolution (7 megapixels). What are you using Publisher for, to make a poster? It depends on the size you’re creating, but say 8.5 x 11 size should make a clear printed image even at high quality.
USB to computer, email/cloud storage to yourself and then copy onto computer, a number of different ways.
Thanks, all. Very helpful.
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If the image is 12 megapixels, that is around 4000 x 3000 pixels. Printing at 300 pixels per inch, that means you should be able to get a high quality print of around 13 x 10 inches.
That 300 PPI is to get an image that is sharp at a viewing distance of a couple of feet or less–lower PPIs are okay from greater viewing distances. I once had a photographic print made from a 5 MP photo of mine that is in poster dimensions–something in the range of 36x24 inches. At close inspection it looks like it has “scan lines” but at a normal poster viewing distance of more than a few feet, it looks perfect. At poster distances, a 12 MP image would probably be acceptable at close to 40 x 30 inches.
(All this is to say that 12 MP for printing a small photo is like swatting a fly with a Buick.)
Probably too late now, but:
If you’re using a Mac, you can “airdrop” them to from the iPhone to the Mac (I’m sure you can goggle that).
If you’re on a PC I’d think the easiest option is to just email them to yourself.
also … wordpad is useful if you just wish to place the images in it … in case you become discombobulated with ms’s publisher/word software.
Holy crap, you can put images in Wordpad? Will wonders never cease!
I email iPhone photos, perhaps save them, then open the attachment or the saved file in Microsoft Paint. Then, Select All and Copy. Every Microsoft app that accepts images that I’ve tried has accepted them using this method. Some non-Microsoft apps that are fussy about image imports will also accept them.