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asamuel
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I went to printers to make 12 prints for a porfolio.
1) I didn't like the out come, the finish felt to digitised.
I realised I had worked on a Raw file set at
3456 by 2304 (8. MP) instead of 4096 by 2731 (11.2MP). Could this account for the tackiness? Would re-working these images at the second setting make much difference to the image quality printed at approx A3.
2) he made my print 5cm over a3 (which I asked for) and so is willing to print again at half the price (thanks).
So I'm wondering if the above change would make me a stark difference to the outcome and warrant a reprint to images that have otherwise let me down.
thanks Sam.
1) I didn't like the out come, the finish felt to digitised.
I realised I had worked on a Raw file set at
3456 by 2304 (8. MP) instead of 4096 by 2731 (11.2MP). Could this account for the tackiness? Would re-working these images at the second setting make much difference to the image quality printed at approx A3.
2) he made my print 5cm over a3 (which I asked for) and so is willing to print again at half the price (thanks).
So I'm wondering if the above change would make me a stark difference to the outcome and warrant a reprint to images that have otherwise let me down.
thanks Sam.
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x200dpi = 38600
x150dpi = 28950
No, I doubt that the size of image you used is the problem - you've got plenty of pixels even in the smaller version. Are you sure you didn't over-sharpen?
Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this...
The original size of this image was 4734 x 3156 pixels and it prints exactly as it looks here at 20x30 inches from EZ prints here on Smugmug.
No sharpening artifacts and essentially grain free. I can see the individual gains of sand in the light beam in the upper left.
You should have plenty of pixels for an A3.
I have printed A3s from 10D files.
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