Image enlarging needed for online printing?

gfw123

If I am only going to upload my photos and have them printed by EZ or Bay, is there any need for me to have something like Genuine Fractals?

That is, should I enlarge my photos to the largest size needed, like 20x30, and then upload them or should I just leave them at my camera's native size (12.1 MP).

Do online print shops, like EZ, have high quality enlargers, or do the printers themselves have them?

I know Genuine Fractals can do other stuff too, but I only have Aperture and you need photoshop for most of that 'other' stuff.

--greg.

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Andy

gfw123 wrote:

If I am only going to upload my photos and have them printed by EZ or Bay, is there any need for me to have something like Genuine Fractals?

That is, should I enlarge my photos to the largest size needed, like 20x30, and then upload them or should I just leave them at my camera's native size (12.1 MP).

Do online print shops, like EZ, have high quality enlargers, or do the printers themselves have them?

I know Genuine Fractals can do other stuff too, but I only have Aperture and you need photoshop for most of that 'other' stuff.

--greg.

[EDIT: Maybe this isn't the right forum? Feel free to move if not.]

Hi Greg- our labs handle all this, in a very expert and professional way Just upload all your original pixels, no need to upres.

mercphoto

Andy wrote:

Hi Greg- our labs handle all this, in a very expert and professional way Just upload all your original pixels, no need to upres.

I'll second that from personal experience of images 20x30 with "only" 8MP.