Blowing up prints
Jul 29, 2012 19:00:07 #
Anyone have any suggestions on a good software package to blow up files to make very large prints. Years ago I used Genuine Fractals, but I'm sure many better products have come along. I need to make some large prints for a church group that has scans of 4x5 negatives.
Jul 30, 2012 06:15:00 #
OnOne software "Perfect Resize" does the job well. It is the replacement for "Genuine Fractals"
Jul 30, 2012 07:36:33 #
Jul 30, 2012 10:24:27 #
obeone wrote:
Anyone have any suggestions on a good software package to blow up files to make very large prints. Years ago I used Genuine Fractals, but I'm sure many better products have come along. I need to make some large prints for a church group that has scans of 4x5 negatives.
How large are the final prints going to be. I've scanned 4x5 negatives to rather insane sizes, just to see if I could. The images were quite sharp even at 8x size.
However, if you are limited, Perfect Resize works exceptionally well. It from onOne software.
Jul 30, 2012 11:02:05 #
I have a box of old 4X5 negatives that my wife has of her uncle taken around the 1940's that I would like to have put on my computer or printed. I need to find a place that will do that for me. Any suggestions?
Jul 30, 2012 12:21:04 #
Help my terminology--I thought we "blow-up" bridges and buildings and "enlarge" images?
Jul 30, 2012 12:35:56 #
PhotoZoom Pro. Don't enlarge without it. This is great software for enlarging digital images. I have 24x36 inch prints on my wall, from DSLRs as lowly as 6MP. The file I make from a 6MP digital image is over 230MB when enlarged. At normal viewing distance for a 24x36, with subjects like portraiture, a 6MP original vs. a 16MP original look essentially the same when enlarged via PhotoZoom Pro.
Jul 30, 2012 12:42:43 #
joe_flippin wrote:
I have a box of old 4X5 negatives that my wife has of her uncle taken around the 1940's that I would like to have put on my computer or printed. I need to find a place that will do that for me. Any suggestions?
Well... you might want to consider investing in an Epson V750-M scanner, which is excellent and will easily scan all your negatives and transparencies (aka trannies or slides) up to 8x10 inch size.
People who can scan 4x5 might end up costing the same or more, depending on how many scans you do.
With the Epson, big wall prints and whatever you need for Internet or what not is very doable.
Jul 30, 2012 12:47:03 #
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Help my terminology--I thought we "blow-up" bridges and buildings and "enlarge" images?
Funny how we respond to statements. My first thought was not to recommend a software, but Dynamite is pretty effective for blowing up things. :lol:
Jul 30, 2012 13:03:00 #
chapjohn wrote:
Help my terminology--I thought we "blow-up" bridges and buildings and "enlarge" images?
I have been in photography for 77 years. Even when I was a small boy. the term, "blow-up," was an acceptable alternative for "enlarge." Unfortunately, many terms which once were in use have been discarded, distorted or ridiculed in the age of digital photography.
Jul 30, 2012 13:14:34 #
Jul 30, 2012 14:14:13 #
As another olde time photographer who still has a pair of 4x5 Omega Enlargers, I consider "enlarge" and "blow up" to be the same thing, and "Blow Up" the movie to be a classic.
Jul 30, 2012 16:37:37 #
Thanks, to everyone who responded. I think I'm going to go with `Perfect Resize`. I'm also old school and I still use blow up instead of the more proper term of enlarge, of course I still use cycles instead Hertz when I talk about frequencies, and have been known to call capacitors condensers.
Jul 30, 2012 16:50:19 #
Jul 30, 2012 16:50:28 #
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I still use cycles instead Hertz when I talk about frequencies, and have been known to call capacitors condensers.
I do that all the time, I started calling them that way before the hertz'es came along. Nothing wrong with "blow up", it just caught me in a funny mood. :lol:
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