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Hoddo
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14th May 08 at 20:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
my Fiancée's parents would like one of my photos for their lounge, ive found a site that will do an A1 Canvas print on quality canvas for £ 31.50.

now Im confused about the next bit which is quality.

obviously I can shrink my photo to fit A1 @ 72 pixels/inch, but i've always been taught that for print its best to have images at 300 p/i?

If I enlarge my photo to A1 300 p/i its almost 1Gb. how am I meant to upload that for printing?

anyone else had anything like this?
Hoddo
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14th May 08 at 22:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ttt.
JonnyJ
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14th May 08 at 22:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Hmmm, I would think 200dpi would be enough for a canvas print perhaps? At least that would knock a third off.

E-mailed/asked the company?
Hoddo
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quote:
Originally posted by JonnyJ
Hmmm, I would think 200dpi would be enough for a canvas print perhaps? At least that would knock a third off.

E-mailed/asked the company?


I guess I should mail them, the site has an upload interface. I converted it to a tiff at 300 p/i and its 266mb which is slightly better, but to upload it it would time out before it completes.
JonnyJ
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14th May 08 at 22:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Which photo you getting done?
Hoddo
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this one: http://flickr.com/photos/dhodson/2368854806/



except I've shopped out the bushes in the bottom left.
AdZ9
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Make it a tiff with 300dpi and burn it to a DVD disc and mail it to the company.

Don't scrimp out on quality because of file size. That picture is amazing, don't ruin it with poor dpi
Hoddo
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quote:
Originally posted by AdZ9
Make it a tiff with 300dpi and burn it to a DVD disc and mail it to the company.

Don't scrimp out on quality because of file size. That picture is amazing, don't ruin it with poor dpi


I can get it down to 266mb as a tiff at 300 dpi. sound good?
John
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I've never had it done before but can they not deal with it on their end?

You sending a tiff converted from a jpeg/raw file won't be any better quality than the original 5meg picture

As I said, don't know anything about it so curious.
Hoddo
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quote:
Originally posted by John
I've never had it done before but can they not deal with it on their end?

You sending a tiff converted from a jpeg/raw file won't be any better quality than the original 5meg picture

As I said, don't know anything about it so curious.


no I used the original raw file thats posted as an example, the original file is massive.

[Edited on 15-05-2008 by Hoddo]
John
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How big is the original RAW file, a few meg at the most?
Hoddo
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11mb so it'll be upscaled, but print to textured canvas should look okat, you wont be able to pixel peep. when in photoshop if I view at 'print size' it looks fine.
JamesMG
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15th May 08 at 20:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
last time i did anything near half that size the company gave out a temp ftp account for you to use.. still took ages though
BluKoo
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Thats an awesome pic.

Could you write the image to a CD then post it to them?

I know it would take longer, but it would be worth it.
Hoddo
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thanx for the heads up guys, I'll wait for her rents to decide what they wanna do then approach the company would be ace to see it as a print on their wall!

 
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