painting a picture at 300 dpi at 36x48 is hardcore memory intensive.. Sitting there waiting for each brush stroke to load isn't preferable to just up-ressing the original :) thanks for the frame info!
I quickly took a look. Seems decent. Thanks man :) Does anybody know a quick place to buy really cheap frames? I took a look online, and to get a 36x48 inch frame it's like 300 $...
Hehe yeah, this conversation has nothing to do with what your printer may or may not be capable of printing. B5 is tiny compared to a 36x48. 1200dpi at 36x48 = 43,200x57,600, or 2.5 gigapixels. Maybe if you're taking photos with a gigapan, lol! Also 1000+ to Zac's post on viewing distance, you do NOT need 300 DPI when…
You aren't going to have a good view of a painting from a foot away either way. And as Justin brought up, it also depends on what material you are printing on. If it's canvas, the texture will definitely hide any blurriness and printing at 300 dpi wouldn't look any different than a lower dpi. You should't worry about…
lol thanks for all the help guys, but there's no need for a dick measuring contest :) To be honest, you both seem like you know alot about a subject that I'm completely ignorant of. I'm just going to blow the image up with photo resize to 36x48 inches at 300 pixels per square inch. Maybe having that extra detail doesn't…
If something is bigger people are looking at it further away. When you read a magazine, you are looking at it from a foot or two away, when you look at a 36x48 image, you are 4-8 ft away. Billboards can be as low as 9 dpi for larger ones and still look good. So the bigger something is, the further away the viewer will be,…
-sigh- Blaizer. Printer DPI is not the same as pixels per inch. This image should explain enough: 200PPI is enough for a print and even 100PPI could be okay for a small run thing like a company flyer or school magazine, but it's kinda pushing it. Ideally you want source images 300PPI or higher for prints, but at some point…
This list doesn't make a lot of sense, I think. The 'in-eye' density of the pixels/dots varies wildly if you graph it out: I'd say that generally you wanna strive for a PPI density of at leastDPI = 200/(distance in feet) So 1 feet = 200 PPI (phone in hand) 2 feet = 100 PPI (laptop/desktop) 4 feet = 50 PPI (no idea what…