Help with Canvas

Rybo89 · 20 Mar 2013 at 14:08

Hello guys,

We are wanting a big canvas for are living room but struggling to find the picture we want in the right size.

Wondering if any of you guys have any programs that might be able to make the resolution larger without ruining the detail?

Pic:

We are wanting the canvas around 65-70" wide. I don't understand picture stuff at all so I am not sure what kind of resolution I should be getting for the size of the canvas.

I have searched Google page by page for a bigger picture and only found 1 but it has the paws cut out and you can tell it has been stretched.

Will be very appreciated if anyone could help me out with this

Also, any recommended canvas shops/sites out there?

Thanks

niko · 20 Mar 2013 at 14:23

hi mate
just got to ask did you take the photo?,if not have you talked to the owner of the picture?

Derek W · 20 Mar 2013 at 14:36

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=...76,d.d2k&fp=34a43a6431fbcac6&biw=1680&bih=898

Rybo89 · 20 Mar 2013 at 14:56

Derek W said:
link

Wow,how you manage that so quickly? I was searching for 2 hours last night going through Google, page by page.

Do you think this kind of resolution will be good enough for a 65" canvas?

Great work! Thanks

niko said:
hi mate
just got to ask did you take the photo?,if not have you talked to the owner of the picture?

O,I wish I had the chance to get so close to a white Siberian tiger. I don't even know how to use my iPhone camera, never mind a proper camera

One of the most stunning photo's I have ever seen. Reason why it is going in my living room.

Just need to find somewhere to make it me now.

Edit: no I don't know the owner, pretty sure he/she will not mind me borrowing it

Derek W · 20 Mar 2013 at 15:03

Rybo89 said:
Wow,how you manage that so quickly? I was searching for 2 hours last night going through Google, page by page.

Do you think this kind of resolution will be good enough for a 65" canvas?

Great work! Thanks

google image reverse search. pasted the saved image address into google searched by image, larger than 4mp and that was the result.

Rybo89 · 20 Mar 2013 at 15:06

Derek W said:
google image reverse search. pasted the saved image address into google searched by image, larger than 4mp and that was the result.

Reading that just hurts my head.

Do you think it will be big enough resolution for 65"?

Just don't want to be paying around £120 and it looking stretched and horrible. Thanks

Derek W · 20 Mar 2013 at 15:11

I think its maybe getting a bit ambitious to go to that size.

http://www.thecanvasprintstudio.co..../38-canvasprints/107-large-canvas-prints.html

that gives you a good guide on what size you'll manage

a1ex2001 · 20 Mar 2013 at 15:21

Rybo89 said:
Edit: no I don't know the owner, pretty sure he/she will not mind me borrowing it

I'm not a fan of copyright rants on the internet but you do at least realise what your doing is a breach of it right?

You could print it at 65" at it will look ok from a distance but close up you will loose detail. For a reasonable viewing distance I wouldn't go bigger than 30-35" with that file.

Rybo89 · 20 Mar 2013 at 15:50

a1ex2001 said:
I'm not a fan of copyright rants on the internet but you do at least realise what your doing is a breach of it right

A lot of people on eBay are selling it after a quick look. Few sites to.

Why would the owner put it on the internet without a watermark if he/she didn't want people using it? Bit silly to put it out there and not expect anyone to use it

Raymond Lin · 20 Mar 2013 at 16:47

Rybo89 said:
A lot of people on eBay are selling it after a quick look. Few sites to.

Why would the owner put it on the internet without a watermark if he/she didn't want people using it? Bit silly to put it out there and not expect anyone to use it

That logic works. :/

mrk doesn't put watermark on his photos, I am sure he wants you to print and sell it and make profit from his work.

iTune music now come without DRM, I am sure we all can distribute it for free.

Just because some thief is ripping off the photographer on eBay it doesn't make it right nor give any justification to what you are doing.

No one here can stop you printing it and putting it on your wall but don't think for a second that it was the legal or moral thing to do.

Rybo89 · 20 Mar 2013 at 16:53

Really...

I am putting a picture on my living room wall and being made out to be a criminal on OcUK? lol typical replies.

I know if I was a photographer, I would be seriously happy that someone wants to use my picture on there living room wall for others to see. I am not charging people to come into my house to look at it, its not a picture gallery.

How do you even find the owner of a photo?

Raymond Lin · 20 Mar 2013 at 16:54

I am not saying we are all saints and never broken copyright law, I am sure all of us have copied a CD from a friend some time in our live or taped something off TV and kept it longer for 30 days or downloaded something off the internet. But at least knowing where the line is and not assume just because the media is out there, we are all free to use and abuse it.

Raymond Lin · 20 Mar 2013 at 16:59

Rybo89 said:
Really...

I am putting a picture on my living room wall and being made out to be a criminal on OcUK? lol typical replies.

I know if I was a photographer, I would be seriously happy that someone wants to use my picture on there living room wall for others to see. I am not charging people to come into my house to look at it, its not a picture gallery.

How do you even find the owner of a photo?

and it wasn't an "OCUK reply", it is a photographer's reply, an artist's reply. I am being relatively gentle with you here with my posts, try asking the same on a dedicated photography forum and see the reaction you get.

Rybo89 · 20 Mar 2013 at 17:02

Ok, could a mod please delete this thread.

Wouldn't want to insult any photographers.

Rybo89 · 20 Mar 2013 at 17:24

Seems to be made by someone called Gagi from some details on a wallpaper site. Anyone know of this name?

Gagi is not a registered member of our community, but wallpapers have been attributed to him/her. In an effort to give credit where it's due, this page not only informs users of who created the wallpapers, but allows our community to link to places where Gagi has official profiles

Or do you think that be just some randomer who has uploaded the picture?

Ksanti · 20 Mar 2013 at 19:58

Rybo89 said:
I know if I was a photographer, I would be seriously happy that someone wants to use my picture on there living room wall for others to see. I am not charging people to come into my house to look at it, its not a picture gallery.

I wouldn't normally get mad about this but I've had a a week of people on yearbook shoots at my school asking for every single photo that I took of them and being really offended that I said no that this has just tipped me over.

You're not helping the photographer. You're not flattering him. Just because you're not making direct profit off of printing it doesn't mean it's not illegal. You're stealing an image of his that he's very likely to have sold in the past be it in a limited run or general print. Regardless of if he sells the image, it's still his copyright and you have no legal right to print his image without permission from the copyright holder. If he sells the image for £1000 a pop for canvases that large you're stealing a great deal from them, and even if he doesn't and this is just personal work, you're still taking copywritten material.

Rybo89 · 20 Mar 2013 at 20:45

I just really don't know what to say.... Beyond speechless.

Sorry to who ever i offended, somehow.

Mod please delete as i can only see this going in one direction. Thank you.

grahamjenks · 20 Mar 2013 at 21:28

Ksanti said:
I wouldn't normally get mad about this but I've had a a week of people on yearbook shoots at my school asking for every single photo that I took of them and being really offended that I said no that this has just tipped me over.

You're not helping the photographer. You're not flattering him. Just because you're not making direct profit off of printing it doesn't mean it's not illegal. You're stealing an image of his that he's very likely to have sold in the past be it in a limited run or general print. Regardless of if he sells the image, it's still his copyright and you have no legal right to print his image without permission from the copyright holder. If he sells the image for £1000 a pop for canvases that large you're stealing a great deal from them, and even if he doesn't and this is just personal work, you're still taking copywritten material.

Not disagreeing with what you're saying...... but if the photographer was that keen to protect their work why is such a high res non-watermarked version doing on the net? Somewhere along the line he/she must uploaded it surely? Doesn't make it right to take it, but if left my car open with the keys in the ignition I'd not exactly be surprised it was taken. I know its not exactly the same thing, but does illustrate the point that togs need do their bit to protect their own work.

Derek W · 20 Mar 2013 at 21:40

grahamjenks said:
Not disagreeing with what you're saying...... but if the photographer was that keen to protect their work why is such a high res non-watermarked version doing on the net? Somewhere along the line he/she must uploaded it surely? Doesn't make it right to take it, but if left my car open with the keys in the ignition I'd not exactly be surprised it was taken. I know its not exactly the same thing, but does illustrate the point that togs need do their bit to protect their own work.

I was going to post something similar. Normally people 'safeguard' their intellectual property by watermarks or only upload low res images to the internet to prevent them being printed. But yeah if you're going to use someone's image its always best to see if they agree to it first as i did with one of MRK's photos

Ksanti · 20 Mar 2013 at 22:18

grahamjenks said:
Not disagreeing with what you're saying...... but if the photographer was that keen to protect their work why is such a high res non-watermarked version doing on the net? Somewhere along the line he/she must uploaded it surely? Doesn't make it right to take it, but if left my car open with the keys in the ignition I'd not exactly be surprised it was taken. I know its not exactly the same thing, but does illustrate the point that togs need do their bit to protect their own work.

The 2560*whatever image is quite clearly just an upscaled/resized version of the one in OP's post and there is no detail whatsoever in it. I doubt the photographer had a huge resolution file available on the internet and it's very possible that this image is owned by one of the various stock photo sites.