>I'm not sure I'd go even that big. The original was twice that >resolution and had a lot less JPEG artifacting. > >Actually... you might be going about this all wrong. If you really >want >to use this to produce a very large physical print, I would consider >embracing that the original image is smudgy by upsampling it (maybe to >7200x3600 if not 14400x7200 after cropping it to 2:1) and then >applying >some of gimp's artistic filters to achieve a look that is more >"painting" than "photograph". This will make some of the lack of >quality in the original irrelevant. At least give it a try digitally; >if >you don't like the result, all you've lost is some time. > >Also, make sure you save the result at least as a JPEG with 98% to >100% >quality, if not PNG. Matthew - and all of you really - I am blown away by all of your knowledge and comprehension of this dilemma and possible solutions! I SO WISH I could understand the language and techniques better! I might as well be staring at the GIMP program in Japanese for as much as I am lost! At the river sk of sounding like a complete idiot can any of you recommend how I might go about figuring out these ideas or where I might go for assistance in doing so? Thank you all again for sharing your expertise! Coincidentally we heard a famous graphic artist/photographer at church yesterday. Anyone ever hear of Jeremy Cowart? His story is amazing!
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