Adjust an images resolution

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do you own the rights to this image? is it free? Consider a few years down the line, your business has taken off, now worth millions, the original owner or your logo comes across your website and decides to sue, awarded £10m in the courts, if only you'd paid a few quid for your own image

with others, you cannot 'up' the resolution without introducing noise either find a better copy of the image, design your own version, or, I suppose, ask the owner for a better copy, and be prepared to pay

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Conor wrote: »

Yep and 20MB is too small. Firstly it needs to be in an uncompressed format so you don't get artifacting when you blow it up as you do with a JPEG and then it needs to be of sufficient resolution as well. For example, a A4 sized image would come in at 33MB

Missus said she sent one proof to a customer for OK'ing for a 3ftx4ft image for a poster and it was 534MB.

Pedantic much?

Jo4

isofa wrote: »

It's likely to be a too low res image - meaning not enough pixels. And it sounds like you are confusing resolution with size/pixel count.

The "not enough resolution" message, is likely to mean, "the image doesn't have enough pixels to print at the quality/size required."

You can't up the resolution and resize, without making it blurry or jaggy, you cannot add detail that isn't there.

You can change the output resolution of a file say from 72dpi to 300dpi, but you'd have to retain the pixel count, e.g. 640 x 480.
If you resize the image, say from 640 x 480 to 2560 x 1920, i.e. increasing the size of the image, you'll just end up with a much larger image, but looking out of focus and blurry! Doing this in Photoshop or any other image program, will result in a poor quality image, regardless. You can still set the output resolution to 72, 150, 300dpi etc.

A printing service won't care of the output resolution set on a file (if you are talking photo printing), just the number of pixels available, as the output resolution is a trivial thing to set.

I am taking the resolution from what they stated in their email, "Can you email us a higher resolution version".

Aiadi

Why not just post the image and the resolution required and let us try and achieve what you require and post it back to you or to the forum??

Jo4

poker_face wrote: »

If you have a program like photoshop you can input exactly what resolution you want.
do you know what the resolution needs to be, and what it currently is?

I don't know what the resolution needs to be.

Jo4

timbim wrote: »

This really raises the question over who the original belongs to. They may not be too happy to have their IP printed on someone elses business card.

I did a search for an image on Google. I thought the images would not be advertised on Google if you were not allowed to use them.

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Jo4 wrote: »

I did a search for an image on Google. I thought the images would not be advertised on Google if you were not allowed to use them.

You are kidding:rolleyes: Anyhow, don't take this a read, but for 'personal use' copyright might not be an issue (over to you Legal folk:D

Jo4

Conor wrote: »

My missus works in sign design. Whenever anyone says they're emailing a graphic file her boss shakes his head and usually mutters some "for the love of god" comment. Basically, any image file that is small enough to be emailed is going to look toss unless it's going to be printed out quite small.

When the image is printed on the business card it will be 2cm square.

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I think Google just index pictures regardless of copyright or not, they're not the ones breaking any laws in doing so. You might find yourself doing so though.

Jo4

tonyhague wrote: »

do you own the rights to this image? is it free? Consider a few years down the line, your business has taken off, now worth millions, the original owner or your logo comes across your website and decides to sue, awarded £10m in the courts, if only you'd paid a few quid for your own image

with others, you cannot 'up' the resolution without introducing noise either find a better copy of the image, design your own version, or, I suppose, ask the owner for a better copy, and be prepared to pay

I don't own the rights to this image. This is not for my business, it is for a friend. It is a black and white image, not a photo, of a cartoon like figure.