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Question:OK i have a bit of an ordeal......
There are these posters that are not printed anymore and they are printed for a k-1 event in japan....
I think it is practically impossible to get them anymore unless in japan :(:(:(:(
there are pictures on the internet...and i want to be able to make them into my own poster
BUT
thing is i have heard about resolution and stufff....and that it would probably come out blurry...i want the posters too be about 20x30 (around that size)
how do i make the pictures from the internet a good resolution so i can blow them up???
pleassssse help this would be the only way i could get them ive looked ALL over the internet for the original posters and no go. unless somebody can supply me with a better way

please help, will pick best answer
all posts are extremely appreciated!!!


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: OK i have a bit of an ordeal......
There are these posters that are not printed anymore and they are printed for a k-1 event in japan....
I think it is practically impossible to get them anymore unless in japan :(:(:(:(
there are pictures on the internet...and i want to be able to make them into my own poster
BUT
thing is i have heard about resolution and stufff....and that it would probably come out blurry...i want the posters too be about 20x30 (around that size)
how do i make the pictures from the internet a good resolution so i can blow them up???
pleassssse help this would be the only way i could get them ive looked ALL over the internet for the original posters and no go. unless somebody can supply me with a better way

please help, will pick best answer
all posts are extremely appreciated!!!

k-1 event japan, ~combat sport
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-1

http://hiphotos.baidu.com/sunyang65/pic/...
http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=115572305
http://www.muaythai-fighting.com/buakaw-...

http://www.strikezonedortmund.de/images/...
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/6976/...
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/7325/...
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2929/...
http://www.fighttalk.nl/upload_public/Im...
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/7025/...
blog info
http://krumuaythai.blogspot.com/2007_08_...
http://www.freefightingillustrated.com/K...
http://www.strikezonedortmund.de/5395679...

nothing specific found, you could use a set of four to make larger poster, increase resolution to 300+ , use poster tools to maker large set of one,

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/posteraz...

fd's Flickr Toys
http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/
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I really hate to tell you this, but...

Every picture is made up of little dots. That's what they're talking about when they tell you something has a high resolution or a low resolution--how many of these dots there are in a certain area. On the web, pictures are displayed at 72 dots per inch (dpi). Print quality is considered to be 300 dpi. That means that for every inch of a picture on the internet, you need about four times the number of dots to print the same size at any kind of quality. Sometimes you can go down to about 200dpi and still get a good print on photo paper. That would mean that the image would need to be 4000 x 6000 in order to be printed 20" x 30"--bare minimum.

There isn't really any way to make the resolution better, especially at a jump this huge. Once the dots have been taken away, they're gone. You can change the number per inch in a program like Photoshop, but all it's doing is interpreting the data that's there--you'll just get bigger blurry dots.

Good luck with your search, though. Sorry. :(