Scanning And Cropping Art.

mb has nothing to do with the printability It is just the file size on your computer.

The sizes depend on your pixels. Unlike other sites we never crop or skew images to fit standard sizes, instead allowing the artist free scope to just upload what they have

The only limits we have are that one of your dimensions is going to be forced to fit the following list:

8"
10"
12"
14"
16"
20"
24"
32"
36"
48"

The other dimension will be scaled proportionally to maintain the aspect ratio of your image.

We print at 100dpi and up so that makes the math easy. 4800 pixels is 48"

Never enlarge your images as that degrades the print quality and we will refuse to print

Hope that helps

those won't print. there are blocks. don't save it at a very low compression or it will block up. the size should be much larger in megs. beyond that listen to what she said above. you can make larger sizes by scanning it in at a higher dpi. but save it at the highest jpg level you can.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Thanks Lady I and Mike Savad.

So should I scan at 300 or 600 dpi or higher?

i would scan at 1200dpi, and shrink it if you have to. the bigger the better. however watch the compression when you save it. it shouldn't have blocks up close.

every 300 dpi equals 1 times. 600 is twice the size and so on.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Be careful on your crop settings that you don't resample and increase the file size. It is usually not a god idea to increase the pixel size so scan at the highest resolution.

I re-scanned it. It is the only work of art that I have listed. I deleted the others. Does it have blocks now? The scan has a slight line at the bottom. Does this matter? I did not crop it because I do not know how to prevent the Windows Photo Cropping program from re-sampling and increasing the file size.

it looks a little pale up close (might adjust the contrast), but otherwise that looks much better. it will print and print at larger sizes now. though you do want to clean that line at the bottom, clone it out, crop it out. the crop in a program shouldn't have the DPI filled in. it should be blank. however in a scanner, (mine at least), i can scan in a pre-cropped area. so you can just window in an area and scan that.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Thanks Mike! I will set my scanner to 8x10 pre-crop and see if that works.

Thanks to everyone for your help!