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Resizing stock images
downloaded image that was 13 x 9 and 300 dpi. I need to enlarge it to 53x36 and have it be 300 dpi.
There is only one size to download? Can I enlarge this and keep it at 300 dpi?
AbamboCorrect answer
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Dec 14, 2018 9:22 PM UTC
Without knowing about the picture, nobody can give you a definitive and correct answer. So this should only be a general guideline for you:
- Images normally can be scaled up around 1.5 times the size with programs like Photoshop, without too much problems.
- very often a density of 250 dpi is good enough for printing.
What you would like to do is to enlarge 4 times the picture. That can be done only on very specific pictures. So if the picture is not available at higher resolutions, I would say (as I said out of the blue) no, it's not possible.
I have doubled the size of some pictures. I have also tripled the size. But artefacts get very visible in those cases and I would not do that with stock images.
ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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