Shane & Kim wrote:
I neet to print a 11×14 photo from a 2mp camera.
What is the best way to optimize this in PS7?
Is it even worth my time?
Sure. I print 3mp images at 13×19 all the time, so you’re in the ballpark. Don’t expect razor sharp but it should look good from a normal viewing distance.
Start by converting to Lab and sharpening just the L channel. It will be important as well to get the highlight and shadow nice and snappy, and color saturation looking good.
OTOH – if you have not taken the images yet, and the subject matter is relatively static, you can assemble four or more images into a mosaic and get excellent quality with a little work. You can put the images together manually in Photoshop – which is harder than it looks, or use a variety of tools to do this for you.
PTGUI, which is a front end for Panotools does a great job. It has, last I checked a 30 day free eval, after which you need to pay 39 Euros or about $55 US
http://www.ptgui.com/ If there are other things you might spend the $55 you can get the same result with the panotools engine, a script based program that is available free here:
http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~dersch/ —
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net