500x700 pixels quality print

Martik wrote:
Here is a link to the image (1st one) http://www3.telus.net/martik/

I believe it was resized from a larger original and will be printed
at a
lab.

It won't look good, but not too bad, as long as you don't look very
close, well not even a little close. Normally I would say to up-sample
and then try to sharpen a bit, even with a great photo this is very
limited, but what you are working with has some pretty large jpg
artifacts with really limits sharpening.

But a 4 x 6 print is cheap so give it a try and see what it looks like.


Scott

Martik wrote:
I only have a 500x700 pixel image to process. How will this look on a 4x6
print?


Not very good. If you have a really good program to resize it, you
might not find it too objectionable, but it will lack detail.


--
Ron Hunter

Martik wrote:
Here is a link to the image (1st one) http://www3.telus.net/martik/

I believe it was resized from a larger original and will be printed at a
lab.



They don't look bad on the screen, so you should be able to get prints
that will serve the intended purpose. I take it you aren't planning to
try to get them published in a car mag...


--
Ron Hunter

It will probably look like crap. First off, there will be some cropping
or some stretching involved because 500 X 700 does not have the same
aspect ration (ratio of length to width) of a 4x6. That aside, you
probably need more pixels for a decent print. Maybe you could print it
out smaller (not enlarged), then scan that with a scanner at a very
high resolution 600-900+ dpi?

It will probably look like crap. First off, there will be some cropping
or some stretching involved because 500 X 700 does not have the same
aspect ration (ratio of length to width) of a 4x6. That aside, you
probably need more pixels for a decent print. Maybe you could print it
out smaller (not enlarged), then scan that with a scanner at a very
high resolution 600-900+ dpi?

It will probably look like crap. First off, there will be some cropping
or some stretching involved because 500 X 700 does not have the same
aspect ration (ratio of length to width) of a 4x6. That aside, you
probably need more pixels for a decent print. Maybe you could print it
out smaller (not enlarged), then scan that with a scanner at a very
high resolution 600-900+ dpi?

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 23:33:40 -0700, Kevin McMurtrie wrote:

Print it on 5x7 paper. The last thing it needs is to be
cropped down to 466x700 to fix 4x6 paper.

I was also about to suggest a size other than 4x6, because you'd
lose less by picking a size with a closer aspect ratio to 5x7. My
suggestion would have been to use 3 1/2x5 paper. 5 x 7 might make
the lack of detail a bit too obvious, and 3 1/2 x 5 (5.0 x 7.14) is
very close to 5 x 7's perfectly matched aspect ratio. Trailing far
behind is 4 x 6 (5.0 x 7.5) so that size paper would waste even more
of its limited detail due to trimming. Martik only asked how 4x6
would look, so either 3 1/2x5 or 5x7 might be acceptable.

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 23:33:40 -0700, Kevin McMurtrie wrote:

Print it on 5x7 paper. The last thing it needs is to be
cropped down to 466x700 to fix 4x6 paper.

I was also about to suggest a size other than 4x6, because you'd
lose less by picking a size with a closer aspect ratio to 5x7. My
suggestion would have been to use 3 1/2x5 paper. 5 x 7 might make
the lack of detail a bit too obvious, and 3 1/2 x 5 (5.0 x 7.14) is
very close to 5 x 7's perfectly matched aspect ratio. Trailing far
behind is 4 x 6 (5.0 x 7.5) so that size paper would waste even more
of its limited detail due to trimming. Martik only asked how 4x6
would look, so either 3 1/2x5 or 5x7 might be acceptable.

"Martik" wrote in message
newsA44e.150753$gJ3.86805@clgrps13...
I only have a 500x700 pixel image to process. How will this look on a 4x6
print?


For starters, the aspect ratio will not permit printing to a 4x6 size.
Next, the pixel per inch count will be quite low. You may be able to see
the pixels. It is possible to help this problem with interpolation.
Jim

"Martik" wrote in message
newsA44e.150753$gJ3.86805@clgrps13...
I only have a 500x700 pixel image to process. How will this look on a 4x6
print?


For starters, the aspect ratio will not permit printing to a 4x6 size.
Next, the pixel per inch count will be quite low. You may be able to see
the pixels. It is possible to help this problem with interpolation.
Jim