Photo Resizing for Printing 1313 Responses

Last post: 1 year ago | Thread started: Apr 26, 12, 9:49 p.m.

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• mg33

  I'm starting to work on some photo prints for our house and luckily have RAW images to work from to enlarge. Looking to print at 11.5 x 11.5 inches for square frames.

  What I'm hoping to do is recreate some imagery I've done on my iPhone using PicFX and Instagram, I'd really like to print the Instagram photos because the sequence of steps are very few to get the exact result I want. With PS, I've got a lot more options and might not correctly duplicate it.

  So that makes me think: What's the best way I can enlarge the square instagram image (612 pixels square) to print at 11.5 x 11.5 inches with no loss in quality? Is there software that can handle image enlargement with no quality loss?

  This is the type of thing I'm looking to print. Yeah, I know I could do the same thing in PS, but might not get the exact same color blend.
  

  

  Planning on doing several on fine art paper for a nice screen printed feel to them.

  Apr 26, 12, 9:49 p.m. – Permalink

• albums

  http://dbox.tumblr.com/post/5426…

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 12, 9:51 p.m. – Permalink

• monNom

  no, not really.

  this might be a bit better than photoshop, but don't expect miracles
  http://www.ononesoftware.com/pro…

  • Funny enough, what got me thinking about this was an old Genuine Fractals review on is050 >– mg331/2

    http://blog.iso50.co…– mg332/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 12, 9:52 p.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  here are some links buddy, unless you've already searched:
  http://www.geeksugar.com/How-Pri…

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 12, 9:54 p.m. – Permalink

• albums

  612 / 150 = 4.08 inches
  612 / 240 = 2.55 inches

  I wouldn't do it with the Instagram photos. the close enough recreations will print so much better than enlarged previously compressed JPGs.

  The quality you'll get from the Instagrams will be upsetting to look at over time, you'll appreciate the extra effort/time you took once you see it as an aesthetic investment

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 12, 9:56 p.m. – Permalink

• deathboy

  cs6 demo has some presets in adjustment layer to get some of those effects. Cant recall what its called but look for the new one.

  • or play with nik color efex on originals– deathboy

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 12, 9:59 p.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  albums,

  That's about what I was thinking. I think with some work I can get the color overlay layer to look pretty close to what I want, give or take. The big thing is consistency since I'm going to do a series of about 6 images.

  That image above was made by changing an image to Black and White in PicFX with blue streak style setting on iPhone, then using the new-ish Sierra filter in Instagram. Equally nice is the combination of black and white in PicFX, then Sierra in Instragram, to get results like this:

  

  • awesome fucking shot!– jaylarson1/4

    Thanks Jay. That's from a bus from Breckenridge to Denver last year.– mg332/4

    I'm sure you mean a tripod and hours of waiting for the light to be just right...– albums3/4

    hahaha– jaylarson4/4

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 12, 10:01 p.m. – Permalink

• albums

  ah, I see, multiple effects from multiple sources, i too have done that. it's fun for email and online sure. The predicament of course increases, but i still feel confident that you'll kick yourself if you print enlargements

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 12, 10:06 p.m. – Permalink

• albums

  regarding consistency. Ever notice how different effects look dramatically different on different images? This problem even exists in Lightroom when pasting the effects from one image to another. this is of course due to the different histograms each individual image begins at. So I'm sure even if you were able to run all your images through the filter of your choice, not all images will come out with the appeal created from the first experiment that yielded the the first color range. As long as you understand that as you begin working you'll be more conscious of the originating image, the resulting images should stay consistent.

  • Totally understand that. Should be interesting to see what kind of workflow I need to figure out.– mg33

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 12, 10:12 p.m. – Permalink

• pango

  please keep us posted when you figure this out. :)

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 12, 11:01 p.m. – Permalink

• sinjun

  Try this. I use it sometimes with varying results. (not tried with instagram)

  http://www.alienskin.com/blowup/…

  • Thanks. Would love to find a printer that had this and just let them do it.– mg33

  

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  Dog-earApr 27, 12, 1:41 a.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  Also on the subject of printing, have any of you gotten photo prints on fine art paper so they sort of look like a screen print? With these prints as some other ones I'm hoping to do, I want them to have a matte finish and not look glossy.

  

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  Dog-earApr 27, 12, 5:56 a.m. – Permalink

• bjladams

  i have most of my art prints done on acid free watercolor vellum - 300 g/m. the paper holds the ink well, and the texture is pretty deep. i like it.

  • Any pics as examples?– mg33

  

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  Dog-earApr 27, 12, 6:18 a.m. – Permalink

• bjladams

  these are illustrations, not photos, but you can see the texture in them still...

  

  

  

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  Dog-earApr 27, 12, 6:28 a.m. – Permalink