Re: need advice on getting photos printed large/canvas

"Troy Piggins" <usenet-0805@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>* Paul Furman wrote:
>>
>> Troy Piggins wrote:
>>> My brother has taken a photo (timer and tripod) while on his
>>> honeymoon recently.  He really likes it and is intending to get
>>> it enlarged and printed on canvas or something.  I really like it
>>> too, it's pretty bloody good.
>>>
>>> I've had a bit of an edit of it.  It's 3504x2336px full size, the
>>> crops are smaller obviously.
>>>
>>> I understand that photo quality prints are around 300ppi, or you
>>> can increase the size of prints a little and may not lose too
>>> much quality.
>>>
>>> But I think he really wants this thing blown up, like 1 metre
>>> wide or something.  I'm concerned it may come out pixelated or
>>> something.
>>>
>>> Will it?
>>>
>>> If so, can I scale the image up and do something so that it
>>> doesn't print pixelated?  Maybe blur it slightly to take out
>>> pixelation?
>>>
>>> What max size would you recommend?  I think he just intends
>>> hanging it on his wall, not an art gallery :)
>>>
>>> Any other recommendations?
>>
>> Did you have a link?
>> :-)
>
> To the photo?  Thought about that after I sent the other one.  I
> won't post the full sized ones, but here's some reduced for web
> ones.
>
> Here's the original he sent me:
> http://piggo.com/~troy/images/ausphoto/IMG_9434.JPG
>
> My edit:
> http://piggo.com/~troy/images/ausphoto/IMG_9434-full.jpg
>
> Some crops I tried:
> http://piggo.com/~troy/images/ausphoto/IMG_9434-pano.jpg
> http://piggo.com/~troy/images/ausphoto/IMG_9434-crop1.jpg
> http://piggo.com/~troy/images/ausphoto/IMG_9434-crop2.jpg
>
> What do you think of the edit?  Ok?  Change anything?
>
> -- 
> Troy Piggins
> I always appreciate critique.

I suppose you could try enlarging a small cropped part of the image and 
printing it out yourself to see what effect it may have.

I'm no expert , but I might be inclined to do something with the sky, not 
sure what though, maybe increase the contrast slightly and give it a
slight 
blue cast.

Great pic and should look good on a canvas :)


-- 
Robert