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flapjack

Printing photos

Hope this is the right place to ask for this sort of advice.
The Students Union are interested in displaying my jellyfish pictures. (the deal with the Art Gallery is that I can sell my work elsewhere so no panic there). Before I invest in getting them foambacked I have a sort of technical query. (Yes I know my flickr and learning to upload should show you how dumb I can be!)
The framed ones are A3 and the foambacks are A4 in the art gallery and they turned out okay. The photos are on my hard drive and the properties are 2560 pixels x 1920 pixels Res: 28 pixels/cm.
What the SU want ideally are photos A3 or even larger say A2 or A1.
Do you think these will be okay to make up to larger than A3 without them becoming fuzzy?
Venom

What megapixel is your camera is it 5? I used to own a Nikon coolpix 5700 (5mp) and had no trouble getting a A3 print from it. The size you quoted (2560 pixels x 1920) sounds about the same as the 5700 used to turn out so I can't see a problem.

Failing that you could always resize / Interpolate them, have a look Here
hil26

Seems Ok to me, I blew 1.3Mp camera images to A4 with no issues.

What is best to remember is the viewing distance, A3 at 3m away will look an awful lot better than A3 at 300mm away
flapjack

megapixels

Venom wrote:
What megapixel is your camera is it 5? I used to own a Nikon coolpix 5700 (5mp) and had no trouble getting a A3 print from it. The size you quoted (2560 pixels x 1920) sounds about the same as the 5700 used to turn out so I can't see a problem.

Failing that you could always resize / Interpolate them, have a look Here


Yes it was my old Fuji with 5 megapixels. I'll have a look at this interpolate link - thanks for your help q43
flapjack

viewing distance

hil26 wrote:
Seems Ok to me, I blew 1.3Mp camera images to A4 with no issues.

What is best to remember is the viewing distance, A3 at 3m away will look an awful lot better than A3 at 300mm away


sorry to be thick but do you mean viewing distance when I took the pictures or what they will look like on the walls?
hil26

Re: viewing distance

[quote="flapjack"]
hil26 wrote:


sorry to be thick but do you mean viewing distance when I took the pictures or what they will look like on the walls?


when on the walls -

think about those huge posters you see on bridges and buildings - look very good, but get close up, awful...

Not saying that A3 will look awful, at the normal viewing distance of an image on the wall they will look fine, but if held to the face like a book, then the flaws may show up, depends on whose viewing and the quality of their eyesight.
flapjack

Re: viewing distance

[quote="hil26"]
flapjack wrote:
hil26 wrote:


sorry to be thick but do you mean viewing distance when I took the pictures or what they will look like on the walls?


when on the walls -

think about those huge posters you see on bridges and buildings - look very good, but get close up, awful...

Not saying that A3 will look awful, at the normal viewing distance of an image on the wall they will look fine, but if held to the face like a book, then the flaws may show up, depends on whose viewing and the quality of their eyesight.


oh yes I see what you mean now - thanks for all your help Smile

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