Any thought
 

Hello,

We just did a bunch of reno's to our place and I'm thinking a nice reef scene picture in the livingroom would look nice. Does any one know were I could go and get quotes for a blown up picture? My thoughts are for a picture of at least 36X24.Then I'd like to frame it and hang on one of the livingroom walls.

Thanks

Do you want a paining or a photograph. If a photo do you have the negative. If so I would suggest ABC Photo on Broadway & Fir in Vancouver. But most Photo places will be able to send it away to be printed that size

J

Jakets, It'll be a photograph. My camera is 4mp. The largest size ends up being 2272X1704. I'm also curiuos what that would translate into inches on a print with out any enlarging done to it.

costco does large poster sized blowups.

Steve

Jamie you have PM on this topic :biggrin:

Most digital Mini lab printers use Lasers that write between 300 to 310 DPI. That doesn't sound like much but I've simplified it a bit.
So you take 2272 / 300 = 7.57
Then 1704 / 300 = 5
So you can make a 5X7 from that file size.
Now thats only if you don't want the lab to perform any interpolation. But to take that file size and make it 36x24 the results would be very poor. Even with a negative (135) it's hard to get a 36X24 enlargement to look good.

J

yup but for wall art and pics depending on how far away you look at it from you can get away with 250 DPI. you could make a nice looking 8X10 from your camera Jamie. I did a 11 x 14 pic off my camera and I was very impressed with the output. also for poster making there is another process that makes it so when they are that big it looks good from say 10 foot away and even deicent from 5 foot but not from 1 foot away.

Steve

Thanks guys, I'll look into the suggestions.

Jakets, I'm a little confused as I've seen enlargements with camera's less the 4mp that certainly were framing quality larger then a 5X7. The way I understood it, this camera could take poster size pictures with descent/good quality. Am I missing something? It's new too me so forgive my ignorance.

Well this isn't sounding good. Looks like my great idea may not be so great after all :cry:

Oh and Steve, I think you were answering my question before I even typed it. Which is pretty impressive as you even got it posted before me :razz:

Could someone tell me why then when I upload a picture onto my PC which has a screen size of 12.75X 9.5 the full res picture goes off the screen which would make it much larger then the suggested 5X7.

I guess all ideas sound good when you have no clue :lol:

OK just got off the phone with a company Rich suggested,George King. What they told me to do was, go into photoshop and type in 300 dpi in the image size window and that would tell me the size I could go with for a picture with 300dpi. The answer was 17.4X 16.2" which is much closer to what I'm looking for then the 5X7. Am I still missing something?

OK just got off the phone with ABC Photo and they even said one could go as low as 150dpi with good results. I'll have to see some samples and put some more research into it. @ 150dpi the picture would be 31.5X 23.5 much closer to what I'm after. I geuss the tough part would be to get the whole picture bang on as far as in focus goes. The other option may be to have a couple pictures enlarged and frame them both for the one wall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_per_inch

You computer screen has a DPI of about 72. If you set your printer to print your picture using 72DPI then the picture would come out about the same size as what you see on the screen but will be low quality as far as pictures are concerned. If you set the DPI to about 150 then, your picture will be about 50% shorter in length and height. At 300DPI, it when then be half that size again.

So if your original image was 2272X1704, and your screen was 72 DPI it would be about 31"x23.7" and that explains why it wouldn't fit on your screen.

Hi Jamie. Make sure that you have the "Resample Image Size" checkbox unchecked. I believe that you have it checked and the image is resizing itself in order to support the dimensions that you want.

A 2272 X 1704 image should be 7.57"x5.68".

I agree that you should try 150DPI and see how it looks. You can get a 15.15" x 11.36" picture at that DPI.

thats what I am here for :mrgreen:

Steve

Hey Jamie, sent you a PM

OK Sam you are correct. Like I said I'm clueless :redface:
Kris I did get your pm, We'll talk

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Re: Any thought
 

Hey Jamie, I've got a good buddy in Abbotsford who has a colour plotter than can do huge prints. I've seen some of the large posters he's printed from digital photos and they look great.

Contact me via PM and I'll email you his contact info. You can call him directly and see what he'll charge (very little) to have something printed up. And considering he's close to you it's also much more convenient than heading into the city.

Ok I'd like to say thank you to you all for your insight. Also thanks to those that have pm'd with your kind offers. I'll let you all know how and if this turns out.

Jamie, why not just start another reef and put it in the wall.... You must have some frags there...... just a few..

Doug