Blowing up a photo?

Question:i want to blow up some pictures as im redecorating my room
they are quiet small and off the net, if i printed them on photo paper, would the shop be able to print them to like psoter size? or would it be all pixelated?
thanks

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: i want to blow up some pictures as im redecorating my room
they are quiet small and off the net, if i printed them on photo paper, would the shop be able to print them to like psoter size? or would it be all pixelated?
thanks

M80's are quite nice for "blowing up some pictures".

Don't waste your time with the pictures on the net, though.
If you are going to uh, enlarge them, you will not be happy with the results - no matter what you do.
(Low resolution images cannot be added to to make them aesthetically pleasing).

if they're small, they will probably be pixelated. You should try to find pictures that have a higher resolution so they can be expanded. Hope that helps.

If you do not own the images (you shot them yourself), no lab will enlarge them ... they can't. It is in direct violaton of copyright.

That said, in order to make poster size images you will have to shoot with at least a DSLR camera with it set at its highest resolution. Of course they need to be in perfect focus and show no camera movement, at all.

Large format photo printer costs a ton. Get it done at Costco (etc). For example, they do collage posters for $9.99 (20 x 30 inch) which will look like this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3282/2386...

Or you can just have a plain poster, one photo per one print.

I guess it will still cost a lot of money to frame something this large.

hi,
well download a software IrfanView, which is very good, and u can do this stuff.

if you want even i can help you, if you email me the image i have people here who can do that. and guess wht for free!!

hope tht helps

you cannot print high quality prints at poster size (A0) with a 35mm or smaller DSLR. The best DLSR for enlarging is the Canon 1DsMkIII and that will print a high quality print to about 13x19". Any bigger and I'm afraid you have to step up to medium format.

Short answer: they will be hugely pixelated! You are taking 72 dpi image (72 dots per inch) and trying to expand it to something like 20 or 30 times its original size. Say you have an image that's 2 inches by 2 inches at 72 dpi. Now you want to go 2 feet by 2 feet. So those 72 dots per inch have to be expanded to fit that area. You will end up with lots of blurry squares and no readable image.

Also no shop will print these for you, because you do not own the copyright to them. They can get in trouble for printing these images.