Hi all. I'd like to create a fairly large image, suitable for printing on A0. I'd like the image to be of relatively good quality, even from fairly close up.
At 300 dpi, it seems I have to create an image 9933 pixels wide by 14043 pixels deep (A0 being 33.11 x 46.81 inches), forgetting the margins for the moment. That's 140 megapixels, or about 3 gigabytes in 24bit colour. I fear my machine would be swapping until Doomsday. Dropping it to 75 dpi works out at about 9 megapixels or about 200 megabytes - much more manageable, but will it look any good? Another issue is the base imagery. Working on Web images (or images for screen display generally), this hasn't been a problem, but I can imagine that if I scale a single megapixel up to 9, or 140, that the original image wil be looking pretty shabby, and fixing it will be a LOT of work. What do other people do for poster-size work? Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) +41-43-2660706 (h) http://www.biplane.com.au/~kauer/ +41- 1-6327531 (w) _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
