You need a higher resolution scan for an 8×10. Optimum for the Fuji Frontier that Wal-Mart uses is 300 pixels per inch at 2400×3000 pixels. You might get a decent print at 72 pixels per inch but still don’t have enough actual pixels for an 8×10. But for the $2.00 Wal-Mart charges, give it a try anyway.
Larry Berman
I had a series of 35mm negatives scanned by a service (@ Walmart) to jpg files and placed on a CD. One of the files is 1818 x 1228 pixels (18.94 x 12.79 inches), and displays at 96 pixels/inch on the screen. How do I crop this to be a 8 x 10 when it is printed. (Note: I attempted to crop and print and the image printed out with poor quality.)
Unless you change the resolution to something other than 96ppi, you will get a poor image. Your printer expects a 300ppi image.
Unless you up-sample, your file is going be at best 182ppi after the crop so don’t expect a great picture. 300ppi is generally considered what’s needed for an excellent shot; 240ppi for very good; 200ppi for good; 160ppi for OK.
To print it on your home inkjet, simply click on the Crop tool and set the width and length values to 8 and 10. Set the Resolution to 300 pixels per inch and do the crop. Click on Image | Resize Image to confirm that you got the correct settings.
Upsampling won’t improve the image. All it does is provide the pixels your printer expects through interpolation.
You have not said which version of Photoshop you have but in version 7 go to help and click on resize image and it will guide you through the process.
You said the image was poor quality but did not say what was wrong with it. The more information you give the better the answer you will receive.
Ken
ps. The above post is a more complete answer than mine but was posted while I was typing this response.
