Poster size photo enlargements

[Rita]

The photo you attached is 10" x 14" at 72 dpi. I think Minnie is right, your best bet might be to go to a kinko's and "test" one and see how large you can push it. I can make it any size you want, but since I'm not working from the original and it has been saved more than once, I wouldn't trust sending it away to do a large size print.

It is a very cute poster though ;-)

Kinko's is close. Do you think we can likely get an 18 x 24 from it? That would be big enough for sitting an easel I think.

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[ktschris]

Well the image will scale to 24" x 17.834 (urgh, more math) and that brings it down to about 42 dpi. It will work, I don't know what kind of output device photobucket uses, but a lot of the ink jet and laser printers out there are very forgiving of low dpi. It will help that the photo is suppose to be viewed from a distance, that will make it look better.

I also know people will think its wonderful no matter what. They will be looking at the subject matter and not the resolution of your image. I would go for it.

 

[Rita]

Well the image will scale to 24" x 17.834 (urgh, more math) and that brings it down to about 42 dpi. It will work, I don't know what kind of output device photobucket uses, but a lot of the ink jet and laser printers out there are very forgiving of low dpi. It will help that the photo is suppose to be viewed from a distance, that will make it look better.

It will just go from my desktop onto a thumb drive so will be like the original pic (except the original was color instead of B&W).

I also know people will think its wonderful no matter what. They will be looking at the subject matter and not the resolution of your image. I would go for it.

Right you are! We have a couple other ones we want to do also. I'll let you know how they turn out.


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[Smiling JOe]

Key point is as KTChris states, it depends on the distance from which the poster will be viewed as to the clarity. At close range, within a couple of feet, a 72dpi pic will look a little fuzzy, but step back to view from five feet, and it is likely that your eyes will detect only a clear image.

I learned from BR and Kurt a while back, that when reducing size of photos, due to the screwy algorithms, you can sharpen the image to get a crisp photo, and bypass all of the stepping down bit by bit. Before that, I never understood why my reduced pics were so fuzzy. Thanks, BR and Kurt!

 

[Rita]

Well the image will scale to 24" x 17.834 (urgh, more math) and that brings it down to about 42 dpi. It will work, I don't know what kind of output device photobucket uses, but a lot of the ink jet and laser printers out there are very forgiving of low dpi. It will help that the photo is suppose to be viewed from a distance, that will make it look better.

I also know people will think its wonderful no matter what. They will be looking at the subject matter and not the resolution of your image. I would go for it.

ktschris,

One is done and it turned out nice! We'll get the other 2 done soon. Used FedexKinko's for this one but were quoted one price and it ended up $13 more. Difference between regular paper and photo paper. They were good about giving us the quoted price on that one. But we're planning to get the other 2 done at Staples. (Gotta stay within that Band Booster budget you know!)

Here's the pic. Jackie did it in B&W and photoshopped the tinting.

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