Up-sizing Images

don't. that's the story.

if it looks blurry up close, loss of detail, noisy, stretched, blurry, they won't print it. you would have to post an example of what you consider ok and enlarged for me to say anything else. there is no policy, other than don't do it. live with the size you uploaded.


---Mike Savad

Do not enlarge images. I have spoken to three people just today who are upset their sales were cancelled. Due to enlarging.

Do not enlarge images

Do it at home of you want but not for here. First thing to realize is that they are already offering prints using a 200 or 100 DPI input. So in essence the Epson printer is already interpolating that to offer larger prints then are available by other methods using the same file.
Next thing to realize is that you are uploading a degraded file for use on all your prints. Most of the prints you sell will be downsized from what you upload. So you are cutting quality on even the smaller prints.

FAA does not care or know what program you use. They don't even care that you upsized. They just reject if the quality is not there for a print. It's not a hard standard to meet. Yet upsizing seems to be the best way to fail. Why would you want to compromise your entire portfolio just to get an insanely big photo out of a small file?

I have corresponded with people that have been selling upsized prints at shows and get rejected here. What you can get away with at shows has no bearing. All that matters here is a nice clean image free of blockiness.

I have heard people pipe in and even brag in the forums about how big they can make their images and that they have sold them here. Well great, you passed a really low standard of "acceptable" Do you really want that as your standard? I can see it in the files and I don't say a thing. But trust me it shows. Maybe its still pretty good but not as good as it could be and it follows right down to the smallest prints.

I have seen more than a few that were upsized this week and were horrible. Rejected them right quick.

Will yours pass? Maybe, maybe not. Here is the gamble though. IF you upsize and sell a 60 or 72 inch print no one is going to tell the buyer they could have bought a 36 or 40 inch pint and it would have worked fine. So, you lose the sale. Personally, 48 inch print sales are rare for me so 60 inch and larger sales would logically be even more rare. Do I wNt to risk that 40 or 48 inch sale in hopes that I might make a few more bucks with a larger sale?

For me the answer is simple. No, no I do not.

Have I used perfect resize to sell custom orders outside of FAA? Yupp, but I will not endanger a large sale here for the possibility of a larger one.

No program can magically create information that wasn't in the image to begin with. Upsizing inserts interpolated "filler" to try and extend the digital information in the image. It can't create "more" image.

If you have a digital painting I see no issues with resizing it but you should never enlarge a photo.

good point about the downsizing for smaller prints.

I only have about a dozen images enlarged and every one of them I compaired at 200x
next to the original file at the same screen size and if I saw no difference in quality I kept it.
but since most sales are smaller prints I guess I'll stop doing it.
Giant print sales would be too few and far between anyway.

Just wondered - some places say that up-sized files somehow conflict with their printing set up.
Just wondered if it was the same way here.
Thanks

thanks to the other replies
I know all about how up-sizing works.
only wanted to know if it matter with how they print here