Scaling Images

rem05749 · Wed Nov 05, 2008 1:33 am

Adorama is having a sale on them for $4.95 ea. I am thinking of ordering some but to me that just seems like it would be way to big for your average photo. So how big is to big for prints?

Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:17 am

I have a bunch of frames for 11x17- so I stick to that size... I can't imagine buying bigger frames.

skiboarder72 · Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:58 am

16x20's are awesome, I'm going to get a few!

rem05749 · Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:15 am

I have some 16x20 frames that came with matting for like 10x16. I was just playing around with orders and realized that most of the pictures I have do not have the resolution needed to print that size with Adorama. Might be fun just to see a couple really big prints. I am hoping they have a 4x6 or 5x7 sale soon.

skiboarder72 · Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:37 am

rem05749 wrote:I have some 16x20 frames that came with matting for like 10x16. I was just playing around with orders and realized that most of the pictures I have do not have the resolution needed to print that size with Adorama. Might be fun just to see a couple really big prints. I am hoping they have a 4x6 or 5x7 sale soon.

I've made some beautiful prints from my 6.1mp D50 at that size, don't let it scare you off! If you have a sharp image, with good contrast it will look awesome! These images aren't meant to be viewed from 6 inches away like a 4x6" print anyways

rem05749 · Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:08 am

skiboarder72 wrote:
rem05749 wrote:I have some 16x20 frames that came with matting for like 10x16. I was just playing around with orders and realized that most of the pictures I have do not have the resolution needed to print that size with Adorama. Might be fun just to see a couple really big prints. I am hoping they have a 4x6 or 5x7 sale soon.
I've made some beautiful prints from my 6.1mp D50 at that size, don't let it scare you off! If you have a sharp image, with good contrast it will look awesome! These images aren't meant to be viewed from 6 inches away like a 4x6" print anyways

I made some 12x16 prints from my D40 just fine. When I was playing with my photos that I had on Adorama it was not even letting me select the option for the 16x20. Oh well guess I will just use some of my newer photos.

Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:19 pm

you will need to up-sample the photos on your PC first before uploading to Adorama,- then the option will show up.
On the topic of upscaling, there's some amazing software out there that can increase the resolution of an image with superb results. I use [amazon= B000QXD2TC]Genuine Fractals[/amazon] here at work. If you wan to upscale an image to see how it does, just e-mail it to me, I'll be happy to do it.

rem05749 · Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:17 am

I had looked at that program as a part of their Plug-In Suite 4 but I would end up spending more on that than I did for photoshop. I will have to check through my pictures again and see what ones I may want to do. Thanks for the offer. Do you use that program often? I have noticed on most of my pictures on Adorama rate in the mid-level region and there are some pictures where I have noticed pixelation at larger sizes.