Photographs always come into photoshop at 72dpi. how do I increase this so photographs come in at 300dpi?

What is your camera model

Yes, in menu slect image size to small

DPI (dots per inch) is an output specification and is irrelevant to the camera. The camera puts a value into the field simply because it has to put something there. The DPI is set by the printing program when it prints a picture. A picture printed at 4x6 will obviously have more dots per inch than the same picture printed at 8x10.

No. DPI (dots per inch) only has meaning when you output a photo. It can control how large a print you make. A 4x6 print will have more DPI than an 8x10 print made from the same photo, since they both have the same number of dots but different numbers on inches.
You control the DPI when selecting the size of the print, not when you take the photo.

You need a scanner and an imaging software (i.e. photoshop).
- Scan the original photo
- increase the resolution on the software to at least 300dpi
- increase/modify the size of the image to 8.5 x 11
- save new image under a different name

Different software have different detailed instructions, but the general objective is as described above.
Hope it helps

increase in dpi will not increase the resolution. dpi = dots per inch for example you have a res of 1024x768 at 72dpi you get a printed image of 14.2x10.6 inch at 300dpi you get a printed image of 3.4x2.5 inch
only thing possible is to interpolate the image. but thats **** in my opinion.

Try using photoshop/corel/other image editor import. it will launch the scan gear wizard and there you can change the resolution

Use a free image editing software like Picasa from Google. http://picasa.google.com/ . You can perform basic photo editing tasks easily using this including brightness, colour, crop, resize, redeye etc. For Professional editing you will definately need Adobe Photoshop.

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