gigi1951 Loc: Mississippi

When I try to order a canvas or a poster from a photo on my computer, the site will say "low resolution", and to choose another photo. Is there a way to make my photo choice into high resolution.

JimH Loc: Western South Jersey, USA

Photo resolution is limited by the original source res. If your photo is not large enough, density-wise now, it will not be possible to successfully make it 'higher resolution'.

It's generally good practice to save your images at the camera's highest possible resolution/size. It's always possible to get smaller, but not always to get bigger.

gigi1951 Loc: Mississippi

Thank You. So I need to reset my camera to high resolution?

JimH Loc: Western South Jersey, USA

Yes.

bobmielke Loc: Portland, OR

Perfect Resize from OnOne Software.

http://www.ononesoftware.com/products/suite/perfect-resize/?ind

JimH Loc: Western South Jersey, USA

Hey, looks like P/R as Bob suggested might do the trick for you. Good luck.

aaron Loc: brooklyn ny

yes,there is a way. go to the menu on your camera settings and look for res. there might also be an icon showing a finer image and a less fine image. set your camera to the highest. my 12mp canon did a nice 16x20 from the hi res setting. Down side: your card hold fewer images on the hi res setting.

Hiskid.58 Loc: Erie, PA

Another thing you can do, but it's somewhat tedious, is to enlarge in Photoshop. What I do for extra large prints, is this: Image> image size> set your resolution to 300, go to where the pixels are and change the pixels to percent and then increase by no more than 115%. Keep redoing that until your Document Size is the inches you want. I Have done that to 16X24's when sending them to be printed. I read that you should never enlarge a photo more than 10-15% if you don't have a program like Perfect Size. Of course if you have the extra money and you do a lot of large prints, spend it, I'm sure it's worth it. I don't do very many large prints. So I do it in Photoshop.

Jschneir Loc: Santa Monica, CA

I think some of the comments are confusing. There is a difference between resolution and compression. ALWAYS take your pictures at the highest resolution, i.e., the most pixels, your camera offers. Most cameras allow you to set resolution at lower values,i.e., a 12MP camera may also offer you 8MP, 5MP and maybe even 2MP. Compression refers to the amount the image file is compressed, made smaller. Ideally you always want to set your camera to produce the LEAST number of images on a memory card.

You can always RESIZE your image in Photoshop or in most image editing programs. FastStone is a free image viewing and editing program that I highly recommend to my students. It has a very good resizing tool. That allows you to take an image that is 1200x1800 pixels (2.16MP) and make it and 8.6 MP image which you can now print 11x14 with not much loss in detail.

Jerry

georgeedwards Loc: Essex, Md.

I once had a customer who wanted a 24x36 sofa sized print from one my photos taken with a 5 megapixel camera. I put it into Genuine Fractures enlarging software and made a 350 megapixel file out of it and took it to a laser printer. The finished product was immaculate, no granulation, no pixelation.
I was amazed.

Jschneir Loc: Santa Monica, CA

What don't I understand about your resizing an image up to 350MP from a 5 MP just to print a 24x36 picture? 77MP (7200x 10800 pixels) would have been plenty , way more than enough, what did you get from the 5x more pixels than necessary.

Fractals do a fantastic job resizing an image.