PR photo struggles

[Marabelle]

Hi, my wife has received her portal invitation and is trying to upload a digital photo that meets their specifications, but it is so, so hard. Even paying for an online service resulted in a photo with insufficient pixels. No local photographer seems willing to give us a digital print. How on earth does anyone manage this?

 

[scylla]

Hi, my wife has received her portal invitation and is trying to upload a digital photo that meets their specifications, but it is so, so hard. Even paying for an online service resulted in a photo with insufficient pixels. No local photographer seems willing to give us a digital print. How on earth does anyone manage this?

Where is your wife located?

 

[Marabelle]

Nova Scotia

 

[koolord]

It's easy, if you have Photoshop, please set the resolution of the photos to be uploaded to 600 DPI and the size of the photos to 50mm X 70mm.

 

[Marabelle]

Well, the photo fits that description, but she gets a warning message about too few pixels when she tries to submit it. Maybe I wasn't close enough when I took it? Or too close?

 

[Marabelle]

Thank you very much for trying to help me. It's very kind.

 

[koolord]

If everything is OK, you can completely ignore this prompt and submit.

 

[Marabelle]

Okay, thanks so much!

 

[Eli51]

Go to Staples

 

[DimT44]

Well, the photo fits that description, but she gets a warning message about too few pixels when she tries to submit it. Maybe I wasn't close enough when I took it? Or too close?

You shouldn't be taking the photo. Unless you're a professional photographer.

 

[expatgoingback]

Well, the photo fits that description, but she gets a warning message about too few pixels when she tries to submit it. Maybe I wasn't close enough when I took it? Or too close?

My guess would be you were too close.

 

[davidoqc2]

You shouldn't be taking the photo. Unless you're a professional photographer.

This isn't true. I have my PR card now and took the photo myself with a smartphone camera, cropped it with a free app and had it approved with no kickbacks. This part of the process doesn't need to cost you any money if your phone has a good enough camera.

 

[Marabelle]

We would have loved to just get Staples to do it, but they don't do digital copies, and scanning their professional photos resulted in the wrong dimensions. I was in tears of frustration trying to get the last set of digital pictures done. I no longer remember how we succeeded, if we did. We submitted a photo yesterday, so fingers crossed for happy news soon.

 

[Rag911]

maybe edit the size with photoshop? u can fix the pixel size