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To answer your question, I'm afraid I have no idea but it leads me to ask; where would you get this print, erm, printed?
Jester.
As long as you view the 180cm x 80cm print from the appropriate distance i.e. several yards away, it should look pretty much the same as a 6" x 4" print up close.
Open the image in Photoshop
Click on the Image tab & from the drop down select Image Size
When the box opens change the resolution to 300 dpi
300 dpi is the normal resolution for a top quailty print.
Now look in this image sizing box for the size dimension providing you haven't changed this this is the recommend size for printing
Hope this helps
Bill
Quote: 300 dpi is the normal resolution for a top quailty print.
Thats might be true for a Canon printer but the native print resolution for most Epsons is 240 dpi
Thanks.
Bill. The question is how big can it be taken by enlarging the file beyond the "recommended" out of the camera size. I'm just not sure there is enough in the file megapixel size to print a 6ft image without major loss of quality. Naturally I don't want to discover this is the situation after the event.
Rob
There is no single simple answer.
How far away will your client be standing? For example, billboards are incredibly poor resolution, but you do not stand next to them.
If you print over 20 inches, are you still intending for people to stand less than arm's length away? Probably not.
So 300dpi resolution is not necessarily as critical.
There is more to printing than direct pixel per dpi correlation.
Hi Rob
On a 8 million pixel camera I think you may struggle to get a 6 ft image but I honestly don't know.
Last year I went to Focus on Imaging and took a Canon 40D , 10 million pixel camera , I got one of the pinter companies to print it up to A2 size . It came out ok and still very sharp.
why don't you ring them and ask for advice re sizing.
Bill
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