Looking for software to combine 4 JPG images into one JPG image

I have a few hundred pictures I took on a recent vacation. I want to
put them into an album. Instead of printing individual pictures and
putting them into a photo album I would like to put 4 pictures into
one JPG image to take to a commercial printer to print on one 8 X 10
or larger sheet so that I can bind several sheets into an album.

I can use Adobe Illustrator or other software to combine 4 pictures to
print on one sheet to print on my printer, but if I save the combined
pictures in JPG format the resolution is much less than the originals.

I would like to combine four 2 megapixel pictures into somethilng
close to one 8 megapixel picture.

Anyone know of a reasonably priced program that will do this?

G.M. Durrence
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You can do it with IrfanView - and it is for free.
www.irfanview.com
With IrfanView you also can do it in batch mode.

Or you can probably use Adobe Illustrator. I don't think
that you will lose any resolution. But I don't have
Illustrator - so ...


/Roland

 

This shouldn't be the case - must be something wrong with your DPI
settings.

Anyhow, try Qimage.

 

Hmmm. What I'd do is first convert each picture to a lossless
format. Then I'd combine them. If you need to print from a
JPG, I'd save the result as a JPG as a last step.

If I was doing any manipulation of any of the shots, I'd do
it to the individual pics in lossless format.

---- Paul J. Gans

 

Seems to me that at four photos on one 8x10 page, even edge-to-edge for
the images, you don't need to worry much about resolution. The math
whizzes will be able to work it out for you, but there is a maximum
amount of definition you can get in a 3 1/2 x 5- inch image on photo
paper. Anything you throw at it beyond that is just wasted bandwidth.

Of course when *I* do it, I print from the largest and purest file my
setup will swallow. I mean, what's a few seconds processing, compared to
the knowledge I did the best I could with what I got?