blow it up

JustCharlie

when at my grandmas theother day i came across an old picture of my grandad working on the undeground

i'd really like to blow it up in to a big poster. a metre wide or so.

its in black and white and theres a little damage where the corner has been left folded over for about 35 years! its only just bigger than an average photograph at th moment


any ideas on where i can get it blown up into a poster?

possibly put on canvas?

and can the crease be restored?


and of cors how much!!


thanks in advance

imho

I have Paint shop pro and i know that program gets out creases

Look here to see if the answer to you poster size picture

http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=blow+up+picture+into+a+poster&meta=&btnG=Google+Search

Blacksheep1979

It's not going to look so good blowing up a small picture to 1m or so - even if you had the original negative. Even A4 it'll probably start looking a little shaky.

bookduck

you have to start with a good hi-def scan. If the source photo is good, the the result should be quite good too.

If there are anomalies, the scanner will probably pick it up too - photoshop/paintshop to the rescue.

After this I would print out a colour A3 laser page, and closely examine that as it is an indication of how the print may look, before attempting making it into a quality poster and is much cheaper

ormus

agreed. unless the old photo is high quality, trying to enlarge it to anything larger than say a3, a4, will be a bit pathetic.
if you had the negative, it would be much better.

there are companies on ebay/internet that will make it into a canvas picture for you. aint very cheap though. prob about 50/150 quid.

bookduck

ormus wrote: »

if you had the negative, it would be much better.

Ormus, I thought this initially, but then had second thoughts. Why would an old negative be better? Are negative more scratch resistant and colour/print fast than paper?

My reasoning is that a photo has a larger surface to scan and greater uniformity, while the old negative could probably be cellulose and silver salts and small and inaccuracies greater.

Having no experience with old film or black and white, so really have no idea where to edge my bets?

JustCharlie

for what its worth...

the pictures a bit bigger than i original thought about 220x170mm

it was take by London Transpot during the construction of aldwich station so although its an old photograph the quality of camera used was good for the time. the picture quality is still outstanding now except for the obvious crease i mentioned earlier.

JustCharlie

thanks for all the help so far.

the picture is stamped on the back with COLIN TAIT STUDIOS

has anyone ever heard of them?

i tried googling it but to no avail. theres an address to so for what its worth i might write to them to find out about getting the negative.

i dont mind to much about cost implications. my grandads a bit of hero of mine n i would like to picture to be like a centre piece in my house.

ive looked at some of the places that blow up pics onto canvas but they all want a jpeg image. as i dont have a good scanner its not a great stating point quality wise.

wish i could find a place where u could just post them the photo....

chilli_dog

Try calling around some copy shops, Think your photo will cause some pixelating as the other posts have discussed, I think your best bet would be to get the photo scanned in then enlarged and printed on something like a HP design jet

Red_Rose_Exile

You could always try the rasterbator

bookduck

No negative, what a pitty. would love to know what would actually gives a better picture.

I'd start asking your friends, failing that start asking the shops how many dpi and colours their scanner can scan,

I see 6400 dpi x 9600 dpi is available over from ebuyer. A bribe to the salesman or evaluation scan at PCWorld etc. might be your answer.