Why is this important
If you go too large with a small photograph the resulting canvas print can be pixelated or blurred and produce a poor print. To avoid this before considering a photo for a canvas print you ideally need to find out how large it is. By how large we mean how many pixels it contains. Once you know how many pixels, which are usually recorded as xxx wide by xxx high you can work out how big a print you can get. Most image editing software contains the information you need. As a rough guide find out the number of pixels and divide by 100 this will tell you roughly how big you can print in inches (a picture 1000 by 1000 pixel can be printed 10 inches by 10 inches). To find this out depends on the image editing software you use. In Adobe Photoshop you go to the menu for image and click on the image size tab from the drop down list. Here you will find the following, the width and height of the picture file in pixels, the overall size in megabytes of the picture file, the resolution of the picture file and the current dimensions of the print it would produce. Quite simply the more pixels the better.

Labels: canvas prints, digital printing, image size, large prints