File Dimensions

Not sure it matters as long as you do not go over 25 Meg. I have several I just did that were 5500 x 5000 pixels to make sure they will fit on the duvets. I believe that will print just fine but I have not sold any of them yet. I just did a few in the last month of so if that long.

Thank you Floyd. That is my thought on this also. There is no longer pixels there like a photograph.

You must not enlarge images. Any images.

If you are painting a picture and the photograph or scan of it is larger that's fine, but you must not enlarge that scan or photo or any file and then add for printing

It's not digital art is it?

I think maybe Sandy is talking about printing larger than the original painting, not enlarging the digital file, (scan or photo) of the painting. If that is the case then ya, you are fine to print larger assuming your file is high enough resolution. Even though I usually scan at 300 or 600dpi I won't allow my paintings, sketches or drawings to be printed larger than 200%, I think larger than that the pen, pencil and brush marks would look odd, but I've seen people here offering enlargements of their original art much larger than that.

Now if I'm wrong and she's talking about a digital painting then I'm not sure what 11" X 14" even means. The dimensions of digital painting should be expressed in pixel width and height.

What do you meant you paint at 11x14? What is the process? If you are creating a digital file and your canvas is 11x14 what resolution are you using. To make a bigger file use a bigger canvas or higher resolution for a bigger pixel dimension. Never upsize a finished digital file of any type. At least not for uploading here. All your prints will be degraded.

Yes, it's digital art and is made up of several painted layers. A 16x24 would be 4800 pixels X 7200 pixels at 300 dpi. The way I had it explained to me by one lab is that 4800x7200 @ 300dpi would print at 48x72 inches. Is this correct and does that apply here?

"I understand not to enlarge a photo for printing, but what about a digital painting file?"

I am assuming this is some of digital canvas like in Photoshop or some other program where you can set the size in pixels of inches.

4800x7200

Don't for get that you need 5000x5000 minimum for duvets if that matters to you.

Yes Floyd, it was done in Corel Painter. So could you resize this?

FAA will print down to 100 dpi. An 11" X 14" file at 300 dpi is 3300 X 4800 pixels which means it will print up to 33" X 48" on FAA.

No. Please do not enlarge images. At all.

Don't enlarge the file. You can enlarge the "canvas" in your program and paint it larger, but don't enlarge the resulting file, (the one you'd upload to FAA).

OK, I got it now. Thank you all so much.

You can run it through a painterly program or you can print it out on a high resolution printer and scan it in at a larger size....

Painterly will add brush strokes that are not yours. I have not seen a painterly filter that will do an exact duplicate.

Anyone else?

It was painted in Corel Painter. I used layers and with a wacom tablet laid down each stroke by hand and is no longer a photo.

Resizing IS the enlarging that you cannot/should not do. That kind of resizing/resampling degrades the clarity of your art.

What matters for digital painting, and various kinds of digital art is pixel count. Make sure you start with at least about 5000x5000px for digital paintings when you begin, if you want to support the larger sizes that FAA can print. I have some that are 15000x1000, for wide photo stiched panoramas. Just increase compression to just what is needed to make the final JPG size under 25mb.

You have the answer. But in summary. Create a bigger file by settng your canvas or DPi higher or pixel dimensions higher at the start. DPI and canvas size are an illusion anyway. It really just the pixel dimensions you are setting. Once it is created live with what you have. Don't enlarge. It will print her at approximately 100 DPi so you can use that as a general guide to how big a print you can make.

Sure there are ways to enlarge and pass inspection here. That's a low bar for fine art. And it does show. Remember all your prints no matter what size will be made from the same digital file so make it the best quality.

~Thanks to everyone~