Photo Size Question

No.

But if you are going to res-up the image to 8 X 10, choose Bicubic Smoother for your Image Interpolation if you are using Photoshop 8 (CS). Then use Unsharp Mask to help image look sharper.
It will still look bad though, no way around it.

Printing typically is done at 300 pixels/inch. An 8×10 then would be 2400×3000. You have 640×480. The short answer, no.

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Hi All,

I took some photos at a clients gathering. I thought they were for the website, so I did them in 640×480.

Now, he tells me that he wants to make 8×10 prints from them. Is there anything I can use to increase the size of the photo, without losing so much quality.

I know some will be lost, but there must be a way to do this…… Thanks,

Arthur

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Hi All,

I took some photos at a clients gathering. I thought they were for the website, so I did them in 640×480.

Always shoot at as high resolution as you can. Always.

If you don’t:

Now, he tells me that he wants to make 8×10 prints from them. Is there anything I can use to increase the size of the photo, without losing so much quality.

No.

I know some will be lost, but there must be a way to do this……

No, there isn’t. You can make prints, but they will look like hell.

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Hi All,

I took some photos at a clients gathering. I thought they were for the website, so I did them in 640×480.

Always always always shoot in highest possibkle resolution. Since camera memory is now down to $50-$75 per 1024 MB = 1 GB, there is no excuse. You often can’t retake the picture. And discarding details is possible, whereas getting info that does not exist is impossible.

Look at the suggestions from the others. You will end up with crap, since you started out with crap. But it will be better than just printing 640×480.

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I always ask the client if they would like to run the ‘ad detail’ filter 🙂 At least I can get a laugh at their expense out of it! The other tool I have on my desk (no, really!) is a 30cm plastic magic wand – it is highly recommended for such tasks as 640×480 to 8×10! Mmm 64dpi print…. give them a pen with it, so they can join the dots!

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Actually, you can make a photo as large as possible if you have the Quite Imposing Plug-in for Acrobat. If you don’t, go to Kinko’s. They have it. The plug-in allows for vector based enlargements of any image. That means you won’t lose any resolution. If you don’t believe me, sent me a pic and I will enlarge it for you.

From: http://www.quite.com/imposing/intro.htm
"Quite Imposing does…Imposing. This is all about combining pages onto larger sheets to make books, booklets, or special arrangements… A particularly important feature of the plug-ins is that the combined pages are a new PDF document, giving a way to check each sheet instantly, saving time and money.

Quite Imposing Plus also has options to add numbers to pages, to cover things with "masking tape", or add a page from a PDF file over any other page at any scale."

PDF documents are designed to be read onscreen. Since the IP was asking about rezing up to print size, I doubt this is what he had in mind.

Tom Nelson
Tom Nelson Photography

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Actually, you can make a photo as large as possible if you have the Quite Imposing Plug-in for Acrobat. If you don’t, go to Kinko’s. They have it. The plug-in allows for vector based enlargements of any image. That means you won’t lose any resolution. If you don’t believe me, sent me a pic and I will enlarge it for you.

Yes, Quite Imposing does create a PDF and I does look wonderful on the screen. It also prints at the same quality as you see on the screen. Give it a shot. There is no resolution lost.

Tom Nelson wrote:

From: http://www.quite.com/imposing/intro.htm
"Quite Imposing does…Imposing .."

PDF documents are designed to be read onscreen.

In much the same way as a PSD. My PDF files are designed to be portable and read on any computer, but my intended output is always print. PDF just makes the printing side of
life so much easier…

Since the IP was asking
about rezing up to print size, I doubt this is what he had in mind.

I would have thought any result possibly utilizing PS technologies would be welcomed here. I’m v. curious about this Imposing plug-in and will give it a try when back at work. 640*480 @72dpi to a quality 8×10 sounds impossible though. We’ve printed
1024* at 12×8", and tried resampling, painting
and resizing to the 3008* we want. And it
always looks bad.

Mind you, at your original res, you’re bound to have
had loads of images to show the client 😉

Now, he tells me that he wants to make 8×10 prints from them. Is there anything I can use to increase the size of the photo, without losing so much quality.

No.

I know some will be lost, but there must be a way to do this……

No, there isn’t. You can make prints, but they will look like hell.

yes there is you can dl the free trial of
the Genuine Fractals export plugin and use that
to resize the picture up
i think the site is www.lizardtech.com something like that you get 18 free uses of the plugin before it stops working

rubik{remove}@smartt.com (rubik) wrote in news:41cbb922.364608078 @news.smartt.com:

Now, he tells me that he wants to make 8×10 prints from them. Is there anything I can use to increase the size of the photo, without losing so much quality.

No.

I know some will be lost, but there must be a way to do this……

No, there isn’t. You can make prints, but they will look like hell.

yes there is

No, there isn’t.

The new resampling routines that are built into Photoshop CS are better than GF, but there is nothing that will resize that few pixels to 800% or so without the result looking like hell.

you can dl the free trial of
the Genuine Fractals export plugin and use that
to resize the picture up
i think the site is www.lizardtech.com something like that you get 18 free uses of the plugin before it stops working

yes there is you can dl the free trial of
the Genuine Fractals export plugin and use that
to resize the picture up

*snort*

Genuine Fractals is snake oil, unethically marketed and claimed to do a job that is not even theoretically possible.

Nothing–no technique, no program, nothing–can enlarge a pixel-based image and create detail that does not exist in the original. Not Genuine Fractals, not a PDF creator, not Photoshop, nothing.

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Tacit wrote:

yes there is you can dl the free trial of
the Genuine Fractals export plugin and use that
to resize the picture up

Question about this—- I’m looking at trying that stuff out.. GF… just to see if it DOES do what thet say ~ only way to find out is try it out!
but. has anyone tested it? I’v installed the trial ~ but damned if I can see it in Photoshop!!! not there in the effects folder, and not there in the "import" either!!?? what HAVE i done wrong??? it auto instaled into phooshops plud in folder ok,.. i see the 8bf file in there~ it just aint showing up for me to use!
heeeeellllppppppppppppp~ 🙂

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Tacit wrote:

yes there is you can dl the free trial of
the Genuine Fractals export plugin and use that
to resize the picture up

Question about this—- I’m looking at trying that stuff out.. GF…
just to see if it DOES do what thet say ~ only way to find out is try it out!
but. has anyone tested it?

Yes, and I still don’t like the more posterized look compared to other methods. Also, sharp edges are unrealistically sharp compared to other detail, which looks very unnatural. But if you need to blow something up to an extreme proportion and the result will be looked at from a large distance it might be palatable.

I’v installed the trial ~ but damned if I can see it in Photoshop!!!

You’ll have to save a file in their proprietary format, after which you can resize while opening that file.

Bart