| 70s photo quality 16:59 - Dec 13 with 940 views | noggin |
I'd like to get an old B&W photo of Sir Bob put on to a large canvas. I've tried uploading it to a couple of online places but apparently the quality isn't good enough. Any ideas to get round this? |  |
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| 70s photo quality on 17:12 - Dec 13 with 904 views | WD19 |
Take a photo of the picture!?
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| 70s photo quality on 18:07 - Dec 13 with 857 views | Illinoisblue |
How big is the canvas? |  |
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| 70s photo quality on 18:19 - Dec 13 with 841 views | noggin |
| 70s photo quality on 18:07 - Dec 13 by Illinoisblue |
How big is the canvas? |
50 x 70 cm | |
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| 70s photo quality on 09:56 - Dec 14 with 751 views | SaleAway |
How did you get the 70s photo onto the computer in the first place? Did you scan it? Ideally, you should scan with a higher resolution, but failing that, you would have to increase the resolution via something like photoshop. However, you can't add detail that isn't there, so you are likely to have a reduction in quality as you upscale it.
Does that make sense?
These online places add automatic DPI ( dots per inch) limits, as they don't want to print something at low resolution and have the customer reject it as poor quality.
YOu might be best off talking to a proper print person, who might be able to advise. |  |
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| 70s photo quality on 10:05 - Dec 14 with 734 views | noggin |
| 70s photo quality on 09:56 - Dec 14 by SaleAway |
How did you get the 70s photo onto the computer in the first place? Did you scan it? Ideally, you should scan with a higher resolution, but failing that, you would have to increase the resolution via something like photoshop. However, you can't add detail that isn't there, so you are likely to have a reduction in quality as you upscale it.
Does that make sense?
These online places add automatic DPI ( dots per inch) limits, as they don't want to print something at low resolution and have the customer reject it as poor quality.
YOu might be best off talking to a proper print person, who might be able to advise. |
Thanks for the advice. The photo is just one I found on Google of SBR holding the UEFA cup. (I know that makes it 80s, not 70s) [Post edited 14 Dec 2020 10:07]
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| 70s photo quality on 10:18 - Dec 14 with 711 views | soupytwist |
| 70s photo quality on 10:05 - Dec 14 by noggin |
Thanks for the advice. The photo is just one I found on Google of SBR holding the UEFA cup. (I know that makes it 80s, not 70s) [Post edited 14 Dec 2020 10:07]
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That is unlikely to be sufficient resolution to reproduce well at the size you've mentioned.
Could you post a link to it here so others, more expert in these things could comment? You used to be able to search Google Images using specific image file sizes so it was quite easy to find a massive original file that someone had uploaded to the web and could be printed off at a reasonable size. Anything from the 80s is going to be a scan of the original and therefore unlikely to work very well.
And then there's the thorny issue of copyright. |  | | |
| 70s photo quality on 10:26 - Dec 14 with 688 views | noggin |
| 70s photo quality on 10:18 - Dec 14 by soupytwist |
That is unlikely to be sufficient resolution to reproduce well at the size you've mentioned.
Could you post a link to it here so others, more expert in these things could comment? You used to be able to search Google Images using specific image file sizes so it was quite easy to find a massive original file that someone had uploaded to the web and could be printed off at a reasonable size. Anything from the 80s is going to be a scan of the original and therefore unlikely to work very well.
And then there's the thorny issue of copyright. |
Yeah, I thought about copyright but the photo is all over the net and would only be going on my wall. I don't know the laws though. Sadly I don't know how to upload a pic here. | |
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| 70s photo quality on 12:10 - Dec 14 with 607 views | noggin |
It was a cropped version of the one you posted here. | |
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