I have a friend that is making a 60" x 80" photo blanket for her basketball team. I've provided some of my photo's that are 3 to 4 mb's. The problem is it will show to low of resolution when she puts 4 or 6 pictures on per side. I don't know how much resolution you need for a fleece blanket as it is not a print. Has any one had experience doing blankets?
Not me, but you might try Topaz Megapixel if you need a larger file.
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I didn't even know that such a product existed, but curious I googled and found this suggestion.
It seems that you might try resizing the image (at 150 dots per inch or pixels per inch on a computer screen) to the actual size of the image as it will appear on the blanket.
"I just went through Walmart's online printing service and it looks like you just drag and drop an image on to their template on the website. So if the blanket is 50x60", just make a file with those dimensions. It looks like some of the designs have borders so that may reduce the printable size but it appears that you can resize and reposition the image directly on their template so that shouldn't be that big of an issue.
You also need to figure out the dots per inch (dpi). 150dpi is probably a good compromise between file size and print quality. Printing on fabric is never that detailed so you don't need a crazy high dpi.
But I wouldn't worry about it too much. Just make a 50x60" file at 150dpi. Create your design and then save it is a high quality jpeg and use Walmart's template to position and resize it."
MDI Mainer wrote:
I didn't even know that such a product existed, but curious I googled and found this suggestion.
It seems that you might try resizing the image (at 150 dots per inch or pixels per inch on a computer screen) to the actual size of the image as it will appear on the blanket.
"I just went through Walmart's online printing service and it looks like you just drag and drop an image on to their template on the website. So if the blanket is 50x60", just make a file with those dimensions. It looks like some of the designs have borders so that may reduce the printable size but it appears that you can resize and reposition the image directly on their template so that shouldn't be that big of an issue.
You also need to figure out the dots per inch (dpi). 150dpi is probably a good compromise between file size and print quality. Printing on fabric is never that detailed so you don't need a crazy high dpi.
But I wouldn't worry about it too much. Just make a 50x60" file at 150dpi. Create your design and then save it is a high quality jpeg and use Walmart's template to position and resize it."
I didn't even know that such a product existed, bu... (
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(50 x 150) x (60 x 150) = 67,500,000 bytes* (67.5 mega bytes)
*Assuming 8 bits per pixel
farwest wrote:
I have a friend that is making a 60" x 80" photo blanket for her basketball team. I've provided some of my photo's that are 3 to 4 mb's. The problem is it will show to low of resolution when she puts 4 or 6 pictures on per side. I don't know how much resolution you need for a fleece blanket as it is not a print. Has any one had experience doing blankets?
I've done several blankets through collage.com, and I have to say, I never really paid much attention to that, but then I do not have any images of that tiny size either, I guess mine average around 30mb's on the lower end. I never had any issue and the blankets always came out alright!
JD750 wrote:
(50 x 150) x (60 x 150) = 67,500,000 bytes* (67.5 mega bytes)
*Assuming 8 bits per pixel
I know but that's just the overall image size on the blanket. In this case made up of a group of individual images.
If you take a normal .jpg file from a 20 megapixel camera, and resize it to 50" by 60", that will give you about 75 dpi. This is just my opinion, but anything higher than about 50 pixels per inch might actually be too many.
A blanket with a thread count of 200 usually means they have 50 double-ply threads by 50 double-ply threads. so the "weave" of the blanket is only about 50 pixels per inch. There are a lot of tricks they can do to make the blanket accept a print better, but unless the thread count is over 500 or so, it is not likely that you will be able to detect any print smaller than 50 pixels per inch.
farwest wrote:
I have a friend that is making a 60" x 80" photo blanket for her basketball team. I've provided some of my photo's that are 3 to 4 mb's. The problem is it will show to low of resolution when she puts 4 or 6 pictures on per side. I don't know how much resolution you need for a fleece blanket as it is not a print. Has any one had experience doing blankets?
Research says 150 dpi for a blanket is best....100 dpi is ok.... Nothing lower that that... Resize your image to 150 dpi per side and you will be good....
farwest wrote:
I have a friend that is making a 60" x 80" photo blanket for her basketball team. I've provided some of my photo's that are 3 to 4 mb's. The problem is it will show to low of resolution when she puts 4 or 6 pictures on per side. I don't know how much resolution you need for a fleece blanket as it is not a print. Has any one had experience doing blankets?
I have done a fleece blanket or 2 - but through Fine Art America. The resolution I would expect depends on the printing capabilities of their equipment. The shots I used were from a Canon 5DS (about 50 mp) and the resolution was not really a consideration. Even if its a perfectly shot and tack sharp image, printing on fleece (or any fabric or canvas) will not show sharp detail - its too uneven a surface. Fine Art America prints some very good quality from smaller file sizes - including phone captures. I would expect you will be surprised at the good quality of the result - even with lower resolution of the photos.
farwest wrote:
I have a friend that is making a 60" x 80" photo blanket for her basketball team. I've provided some of my photo's that are 3 to 4 mb's. The problem is it will show to low of resolution when she puts 4 or 6 pictures on per side. I don't know how much resolution you need for a fleece blanket as it is not a print. Has any one had experience doing blankets?
I can't help but point this out. Pictures on a blanket are going to be naturally fuzzy.
Ed Commons wrote:
I can't help but point this out. Pictures on a blanket are going to be naturally fuzzy.
But they can be made even more fuzzy with low resolution printing.
You have to take in consideration the quality of the print as well, the higher printing quality is, the better photo resolution will be required.
Ed Commons wrote:
I can't help but point this out. Pictures on a blanket are going to be naturally fuzzy.
Now that’s funny. And you are right. It’s not like the edges will be sharp!
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