Want to get an A3 print of a photo. Any tweaks?

retribution · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:49

I want to order an A3 poster of a photo I took this summer whilst travelling. I'll use photobox, has that BOGOF offer on posters ended by now?

Anyway, the picture is here . I've never blown up anything to this size before, and I guess any flaws in the picture become more noticable. So are there any tweaks to the photo you would make before sending it to print? If anyone could actually do the tweaks, I'd be very grateful (although I have paint shop pro, could do it myself).

It was taken at Benicassim festival, if anyones interested.

Many thanks,

Rob.

AndyBorzi · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:53

When I had a poster sized print, I just resized the picture to the size of the print required (using Photoshop) and just adjusted the levels as required. Made for a huge file (24Mb) but the print quality was excellent. Was taken with a 300D (6MP) camera.

DR_D · 21 Dec 2006 at 17:32

i had a picture printed up to 71cm x 51cm with photobox. you won't need to do anything like resize the photo before hand. seeing as changing the photo dimensions to the print size does nothing to the actual photo.

Just send em the file as is and all will be fine

Wile E. Coyote · 21 Dec 2006 at 17:49

DR_D said:
Just send em the file as is and all will be fine

Yeah it will be fine as it is, I ordered a 14x11 inch print taken from my D50 also 6MP without upsizing the picture.
I think the BOGOF offer ended on the 15th, might be wrong though

eveyuk · 21 Dec 2006 at 23:29

If you are concerned resize it to A3, crop on the focal point and print at 10 by 8 then If it's good go ahead at A3. Another trick is to put a border round it with a title and date which still makes it A3 but makes the photo slightly smaller and can make the quality appear better.

One of the photoshop books (photoshop for photographers?) details a way to make a gallery print like this which doesn't look tacky.

Good luck.

ChroniC · 21 Dec 2006 at 23:59

Having looked at it, it will blow up to a3 as it is mostly dark colour and wont be so noticeable.
However i would run it through a noise reduction process. You may not have a program that does that, and there not free. I can do it for you if you like.

here is your photo blown up to a3

here is the same thing filtered.

its not a major factor but it might help.
Look into a prgram called noiseware professional.