06-18-2005, 07:43 AM | #1 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Arnold, MD
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Printing to increase size without loosing quality?!
Could I print a digital picture at some insane DPI and then scan it back in with an even higher DPI to increase size and keep the same quality of a picture… What are my limits? I have a few smaller pictures that I want to make them into larger poster at least 5x their original size any ideas on how to do this.
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06-18-2005, 08:49 AM | #2 (permalink) |
Junkie
Location: Go A's!!!!
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not possible
you get whatever dpi you start with and that is it, you take (just as an example) 10 dpi and make it 20dpi it is going to be so badly pixelated you probably wont even be able to tell what it is, and you keep increasing it will only get worse. example below from a Reds game I went to Thursday night 640x480 make it 1280x960 and see how it looks, this is only one size up. http://www.boomspeed.com/montanaxvi/DSC00004.JPG is 640 http://www.boomspeed.com/montanaxvi/DSC00004big.jpg is 1280 i resized from the first one you can still make out what everything is and it still looks somewhat ok, but with each scan then upsizing will make it break up more and more each time. might wanna move this to the photo board, some of them guys might be able to help you out more or show a better example.
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06-18-2005, 10:35 AM | #5 (permalink) |
Mjollnir Incarnate
Location: Lost in thought
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Unless you can get a larger source, your best option is to intentionally distort the picture with something like the Rasterbator.
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06-19-2005, 11:38 AM | #8 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: North America
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It's a rule of science, what you get out can't be more than you put in...scan in a low res pic you, no matter how hard you try, are going to get a high res pic out. Want better resolution get a higher res camera and take the pic again (no not a picture of the pic but the actual scene).
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06-19-2005, 03:28 PM | #9 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: Vermont
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Mildly on topic, this is why I love cops shows like CSI and Law and Order.
"We have a security tape of the crime" "Great! I can't see the guys face, but there's his uniform. Can you blow up the symbol that's 30 yds away and at a bad angle?" "No problem. The laws of physics and computer science mean nothing to me." And yet I still watch them anyway. |
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