Stuart, The first came through, the second is being held for Lee to approve as it is larger than what is normally allowed, I simply wanted you to see what the printer was able to do with a very limited file size.
John On Feb 11, 2012, at 6:07 PM, T wrote: > Stuart, > > I have been reading this thread. As a designer of 20 years and working in > Photoshop for 16 years at least once a week someone sends me a 72dpi > photo/image that is 3"x5" and wants to make it bill board size. It has never > worked in all my years. > > My soapbox preach is. . . always shoot (camera), work (illustrator, freehand, > photoshop) in hi-res. You can click a button to "save as" and res it down and > once the pixels are gone there is no magic to bring them back again. > > The way a college professor explained it to our class (many years ago) and > showed us, was he took a photo that was 3" x 5" and shrunk it 1.5" x 2.5" and > then blew it up to 11" x 17". It didn't work. I always remembered that. > > Tanya Hahn > Marketing & Business Development > 502.558.0487 > > "Be open to everything and attached to nothing" > From: stuartungar <[email protected]> > To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers > <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 5:51 PM > Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Photo question > > Very interesting. Thank you! > > Sent from my iPod > > On Feb 11, 2012, at 4:57 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Stewart, > > > > I have learned so much of this depends on your printer. Since I am working > > on my 50 year class reunion I have ask and received many photo's from our > > past from various classmates. Many of them were emailed and they hadn't > > been scanned at a high resolution, or their email didn't send at a large > > size but I have printed out many of them that were a few hundred k to maybe > > a meg or so. I am printing 36 inch by 60 inch prints to hang all over the > > walls, and they are crystal clear, it's amazing. I use an HP Designjet and > > somehow this thing takes these small files and blows them into these huge > > prints with unbelievable clarity. > > > > John > > > > > > On Feb 11, 2012, at 11:17 AM, stuartungar wrote: > > > >> When I went to Hungary, I took a decent camera, but also used my iPod > >> touch to take photos. Now I find some of my favorite shots were from the > >> iPod and are pretty low resolution. I was hoping to enlarge one to nearly > >> poster size, but am thinking it will pixelate and look awful. Are there > >> any tricks to bump up the resolution on photos like these? Or, was this > >> just a lesson learned? : ( > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Stuart > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> MacGroup mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgro > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MacGroup mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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