What's the best way to get a quality image printed?

David J Taylor wrote:
Square Peg wrote:
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I took a look. They seem very professional. Unfortunately, they only
accept JPEG and TIFF formats. I have an image in PNG format that was
created by a graphic artist.

It looks like MPIX caters to more knowledgeable people and they sorta
assume that their customers have Photoshop (or similar) to change the
format of the image to match their specs. I don't.

I would be surprised if the three IrfanView program could not convert
PNG to TIFF completely without loss (it does so the other way round).
You may need to watch the pixels per inch value in the TIFF file, as
the print shop may use that to set the size of the image. Otherwise,
be sure to tell them how big you want the print.

David

Typing not so hot first thing! "Free" IrfanView, not "three"! Here's the
URL:

http://www.irfanview.com/

David

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:51:00 -0800, Square Peg wrote:

I have a png image that was created by a graphic artist. I would like
to get a high-quality print made.

The image is a collage of digital photos.

I thought someone here might be able to suggest what I should do,
since you must do this fairly often.

In its native form, the image is about 15 x 10 (inches). The size is
12.7 MB.

Thanks

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The yellowpages.com search turned up aerial photographers, commercial
photographers, portrait photographers, and photogrtaphy & videography.
Except for the aerial photography section, the other sections had most
of the same people listed. I called a few and they all suggested
Kinko's. ;-)

I live in the SF Bay Area (peninsula).

I haven't seen any really winning responses, but a quick google
check can get you some (probably) good local printers. I used the
search term: giclee printing services +"san francisco" They may
cost more, but that should get you higher quality prints that last
much longer. In Fine Print (Berkeley) and Photoworks (Market &
Church, SF) look promising. If they also suggest Kinko's . . .

Here's the website of a Hawaiian printer that shows some of the
care that goes into the process and what you can expect :

http://www.kauaisprintmaker.com/


And here's one of the links google found that has some useful (or
interesting) information :


http://bigpicture.net/index.php3?cha...s&openchan=yes

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:13:50 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote in
:

Square Peg wrote:
[]
I took a look. They seem very professional. Unfortunately, they only
accept JPEG and TIFF formats. I have an image in PNG format that was
created by a graphic artist.

It looks like MPIX caters to more knowledgeable people and they sorta
assume that their customers have Photoshop (or similar) to change the
format of the image to match their specs. I don't.

I would be surprised if the three IrfanView program could not convert PNG
to TIFF completely without loss (it does so the other way round). You may
need to watch the pixels per inch value in the TIFF file, as the print
shop may use that to set the size of the image. Otherwise, be sure to
tell them how big you want the print.

Any conversion from PNG to TIFF should be lossless.

--
Best regards,
John
Panasonic DMC-FZ8, DMC-FZ20, and several others

John Navas wrote:
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:13:50 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote in
:

Square Peg wrote:
[]
I took a look. They seem very professional. Unfortunately, they only
accept JPEG and TIFF formats. I have an image in PNG format that was
created by a graphic artist.

It looks like MPIX caters to more knowledgeable people and they
sorta assume that their customers have Photoshop (or similar) to
change the format of the image to match their specs. I don't.

I would be surprised if the three IrfanView program could not
convert PNG to TIFF completely without loss (it does so the other
way round). You may need to watch the pixels per inch value in the
TIFF file, as the print shop may use that to set the size of the
image. Otherwise, be sure to tell them how big you want the print.

Any conversion from PNG to TIFF should be lossless.

Obviously!

David

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:17:45 -0500, ASAAR wrote:

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:51:00 -0800, Square Peg wrote:

I have a png image that was created by a graphic artist. I would like
to get a high-quality print made.

The image is a collage of digital photos.

I thought someone here might be able to suggest what I should do,
since you must do this fairly often.

In its native form, the image is about 15 x 10 (inches). The size is
12.7 MB.

Thanks

========

The yellowpages.com search turned up aerial photographers, commercial
photographers, portrait photographers, and photogrtaphy & videography.
Except for the aerial photography section, the other sections had most
of the same people listed. I called a few and they all suggested
Kinko's. ;-)

I live in the SF Bay Area (peninsula).

I haven't seen any really winning responses, but a quick google
check can get you some (probably) good local printers. I used the
search term: giclee printing services +"san francisco" They may
cost more, but that should get you higher quality prints that last
much longer. In Fine Print (Berkeley) and Photoworks (Market &
Church, SF) look promising. If they also suggest Kinko's . . .

Here's the website of a Hawaiian printer that shows some of the
care that goes into the process and what you can expect :

http://www.kauaisprintmaker.com/


And here's one of the links google found that has some useful (or
interesting) information :


http://bigpicture.net/index.php3?cha...s&openchan=yes

Thanks for the pointers. I wasn't aware of the term "giclee". It
really helps to know what you are talking about (or, more accurately,
to know how to describe what you want). ;-) Just including that term
turned up a lot more useful results. Thanks.