Use PW Pro and res it up to 15.75 x 22. Then crop an 8x10 section out
of it and print that. Do a couple of those with more or less detail.
If what you see makes you happy, go for it. For that matter, crop 4
8-7/8 x 10 sections out of the big one, forget the bottom 2 inches, tape
them together on the back side and stand back and see if you like it.
Chuck Norcutt
Bob Whitmire wrote:
>
> Okay, so it's new printer time. Like another on this list, I'm bouncing
> between Epson's 4800 and 7800. The 7800 is another grand, but it's a lot
> more print space. Now, I have quite a few 6x9cm and 4x5-inch slides around,
> and those will print nice and big. But I'm wondering about my E-1 files,
> which I process from RAW to .TIF, resulting in a file roughly 29.5MB, with a
> native size of roughly 6.5x8.5 inches. With either printer, depending upon
> orientation, the actual image size I'd be shooting for, the way I mount and
> mat, would be in the neighborhood of 15.75 x 22 inches.
>
> Up until this point, I've had no issues with upsizing E-1 prints to the
> largest image size I print, which at the moment is 9.75 x 14, even 10.75 x
> 15, or an Epson 2200. From more than a foot or so away, these babies look
> really good. But the sizes possible with a 4800 or 7800 are considerably
> larger, and I wonder about the stretch.
>
> Questions are these: Is that too much of a stretch for the E-1? Will Picture
> Window Pro, which I use, handle that degree of upsampling? Would Genuine
> Fractals or another upsizing program do better? I have Photoshop Elements
> 3.0, and I think GF is available as a plug-in. Also, I know AG was talking
> recently about going really large with E-1 prints through a pro lab he uses,
> and so there's always the possibility of getting professional printing done
> with the images I want printed at the larger sizes.
>
> Surely some of you old-pros have a way I can actually test with the 2200 by
> upsampling something and printing as though it were 15.75 x 22, only with
> just a portion of the image actually printed? Yeah, I ought to be able to
> figure it out for myself, but at the moment my mind is pretty much out to
> lunch because of other considerations, the most egregious of these being
> advancing years. <g>
>
> Any comments or advice welcome.
>
> Thanx in advance,
>
> --Bob
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