i would like to print my own photo on to a canvas...

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for our wall. how easy / difficult it is to do. i have the software Picasa on here that someone recommended. any tips appreciated. thanks

mymatebob

Getting a printer that can print successfully on canvas will be the main issue.

Picasa is pretty basic but may well be enough for what you need.

The printer is the big issue really

I have emailed files away to a place to get them done and they post the finished article back to you

missile

Not worth trying to DIY, go to Boots Asda or another online companies.

nmcnelis

Does anyone know what resolution photos have to be in order to get them put on a large canvas?

I was hoping to get a couple of pictures blown up to about 100cm x 75 cm but both Tesco and Asda say they can't do it. I have a 6 megapixel camera so i thought the resolution would be sufficient but apparently not. The biggest prints i can get are 60cm x 40cm.

Any suggestions???

Idiophreak

nmcnelis wrote: »

Does anyone know what resolution photos have to be in order to get them put on a large canvas?

I was hoping to get a couple of pictures blown up to about 100cm x 75 cm but both Tesco and Asda say they can't do it. I have a 6 megapixel camera so i thought the resolution would be sufficient but apparently not. The biggest prints i can get are 60cm x 40cm.

Any suggestions???

By the seems of it, even their estimation seems to be on the high size...

with a 6mp camera, at 300dpi (roughly what people normally call "photo quality") you're looking around a 10"x7" print size (3000px x 2100 = 6.3mp), which is what? 25 x 17.5cm.

You can probably get away with less than that if you're going to be viewing these things from some distance, but even half that resolution would only be 50x35cm.

I guess it depends, then, on how important the close-up quality of the picture is to you, and how big you *need* them to be...

tinkerbell84

I've ordered from Next before - bizarrely they base it on file size rather than number of pixels.

OH was sceptical, but they're fabulous! Service was superb.

Give them a try.