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Offline SnakeEyes

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Enlarging a photo to frame?
« on: August 06, 2014, 10:08:41 PM »
I have a couple photo's I like and was thinking about having them enlarged to frame. Any tips or suggestions? How big can I go? This is from a point and shoot Canon so I am unsure if the quality of the photo is good enough to enlarge. I have attached one of the pictures. Where could I take the photo to have this done?

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Re: Enlarging a photo to frame?
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2014, 10:14:12 PM »
If you have a photo editing software, you can enlarge them in there and then save the files to have them print.  Or just take the file you got and go to Costco and enlarge it there.

I think you might be ok with 11x14.  I don't know how big you want since you didn't specified.

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Re: Enlarging a photo to frame?
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2014, 10:53:01 AM »
Thanks for the suggestions. 11x14 would probably be big enough. I will give Costco a try.
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Re: Enlarging a photo to frame?
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2014, 12:06:11 PM »
Here is a good base to work from.

Digital camera megapixels and actual resolution (note these can differ depending on the camera):

2 megapixels: 1600 x 1200
3 megapixels: 2048 x 1536
4 megapixels: 2274 x 1704
5 megapixels: 2560 x 1920
6 megapixels: 2816 x 2112 - 3032 x 2008
7 megapixels: 3072 x 2304
8 megapixels: 3264 x 2,468

Pixels needed for a 150 DPI image (fair to good image quality)
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8x10: 1,200 X 1,500 pixels - most 2-megapixel cameras

11x14: 1,650 X 2,100 pixels - most 4-megapixel cameras

16x20: 2,400 X 3,000 pixels - most 8-megapixel cameras, maybe some 7-megapixel cameras

Pixels needed for a 200 DPI (good image quality)
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8x10: 1,600 X 2,000 pixels - most 4-megapixel cameras, maybe some 3-megapixel cameras

11x14: 2,200 X 2,800 pixels - 7-megapixel cameras, though most 6-megapixels cameras should be close enough

16x20: 3,200 X 4,000 pixels - although this is only 12.8 megapixels, most cameras won't have the same aspect ratio (width versus height), thus you may need a camera with a greater number of megapixels

Again, these numbers are just provided as the results of mathematical formulas. You can resample the image to some degree to make it larger than normal, play around with the printer dpi, etc., and get acceptable larger prints from smaller photos. Just realize that the image quality may not be optimum, though it may be sufficient for your needs.

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