Anyone good with graphics?

[RockiMtn]

if the original image is poor, you'll be hard pressed to try increase the image size up to anything worth printing. as good as some algorithms found in some programs are now a days, any fine details can't be reconstructed from nothing.

Thats exactlly what they can do now. To put it simply they guess whats missing and add the detail, some programs are quite good at it nowadays. You are always going to loose a bit and yes, super fine details will be vague on close inspection but they go along the lines of a bigger pictuere will be viewed further away so trick, if you will, the mind into seeing whats there.

Never going to be photo quality though and not sure on pricing. Going by the last time i had one made it costs alot!! but that was many years ago before digital cameras

yes, there is SOME interpolation and approximation to make it look a little better. but it still depends on how crap the original is and how much you're looking to blow it up. if it's really bad, there's no amount of fixing that will make it better without human intervention, which takes a lot of time and money as basically it's rebuilding the image by drawing/painting it.

 

[FluffyChicken]

This is a 100% capture from the PDF catalogue and the internet pictures are all from this as far as I can tell.

You need it scanned down to the dots, then it can 'make stuff up' much easier and fill in the blanks.

There is a lot of compressing and artifacts going on here to get it into a small pdf file size.

 

[integerspin]

Isn't that picture larger than A3?
Picture doesn't look good enough to make a print from.

 

[FluffyChicken]

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Exactly.

 

[stewlewis]

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Alien Skin Blow Up uses better scaling than Photoshop, expensive though.

Or print it at a3 stand 4 times further away and it'll look as good as a5.

 

[legrandefromage]

I'm not allowed my crayons.