printing

[spoolinspyder]

how big of a picture could i possibly print with the xti... like i know the mega pixel thing has a lot to do with it.. how big do u think i could print before it starts to look shitty.. anything would help or any place i can look

[spoolinspyder]

never mind i found it...this might be of some intrest to people Printing quality photos (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/bestquality.mspx)

[.:Chris:.]

That list is numerically correct, but practically speaking: useless.

What you have to consider is the viewing distance. If you print a picture at 4x6" you would likely view at less than arms length. If you print at 8x10, you might view at arms length, but again probably a little closer. Once you move to 11x14, you're going to view at arms length or greater. Take it to 16x20 and you will have a hard time holding it, so you'll be farther away.

Starting to see a pattern here? Bigger prints are viewed from farther away. You can print quite large without real visible degredation. With that being said, 20x30 is probably as big as you'll want to go with a 6mp camera. 8 and 10 will increase the size you can print, but not a whole lot.

[spoolinspyder]

yeah well mine is only 10.1 so i guess i wouldnt go much more the then 20x30 so if i wanted to print a bigger picture id do better to get a farther away shot correct... its early in the morning forgive me late night lol

[.:Chris:.]

I didn't say anything about a 'farther away shot' - it's all about viewing distance (how far you will stand from a 20x30" picture that's mounted on the wall).

[Mama Got Boost??]

Give you a little example.

A billboard. If you were less then 10ft away from it, you wouldn't be able to see what was on it. The pixels are so far apart. Now from 50, 60, 100ft away, it looks perfect because you are viewing it from further away.

Make sense?

[Mars_302]

poster size is a good size. I know ppl were doing smaller poster sizes out of the older SLRs, like 6 megapixels. There is a new program out now from alienskin called blow up and they say you can make pictures 3600% bigger with no loss.

[.:Chris:.]

Have you ever tried it Mars? Both printers I use warn about upsizing. They always say to just let their machine resample. Just curious, I didn't even know such a program existed until I read their warnings.

[btuner]

BlowUp (http://www.alienskin.com/blowup/index.html)

[Mars_302]

Have you ever tried it Mars? Both printers I use warn about upsizing. They always say to just let their machine resample. Just curious, I didn't even know such a program existed until I read their warnings.


I believe banksy had tried and said it works. I would sure hope so for the price

[Mama Got Boost??]

$199 isn't that bad if you're going to get your money out of it.

[CanTheWhales]

$199 isn't that bad if you're going to get your money out of it.

it's not even a program, just a plug-in for photoshop....