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Resizing stock images

New Here ,
Dec 13, 2018 Dec 13, 2018

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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?

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Community Expert , Dec 14, 2018 Dec 14, 2018

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

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Dec 14, 2018 Dec 14, 2018

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Hi Lucia,

Thanks for reaching out to the Adobe Stock community.

Could you please share the file ID which you are referring to so that we can further assist you?

Regards,

Twarita

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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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