Help with photos from conventional cameras

If you have a normal camera and want to get your prints blown up and put on canvas, the information below is for you.

Sending Prints / Negatives / Slides / Transparencies
If you would like us to scan it for you, once you’ve requested a quote, simply send the picture in along with a copy of the quote that we emailed to you.
Put the confirmation along with your photographs in a hard backed envelope.
Please include a note stating your order no, telephone number, a brief description of the image and any cropping instructions you may have. Photographs should be no larger than A4 size. We will return your photograph when the image has been scanned.
It is a good idea to make copies of the pictures before you send them. Whilst we of course take every care of your photos once they are with us, we cannot be held responsible for anything that gets lost or damaged in the post.

Scanning in your prints
If you have an original print and would like to scan it yourself (and then send it on disk, or upload it onto the site), then to check what dpi you image will need to be scanned at to achieve the size of print you want, please note the following simple rule:
For every 300dpi that the scanning resolution rises, the print can be enlarged 4 times.
To illustrate by example if my print is 5cm x 5cm and I scan it in at 300dpi, the maximum size that the resulting scan can be printed out without beginning to pixilate is 5cm x 4 = 20cm x 20cm.
If I was to scan it in at:
600dpi it would be 5cm x 8 = 40cm x40cm
900dpi it would be 5cm x 12 = 60cm x 60cm
1200dpi it would be 5cm x 16 = 80cm x 80cm

There is, however, one big caveat to this. As always when enlarging things, the quality of the original image makes a big difference to how well a picture can be enlarged. The bad bits get enlarged along with the good bits! As the picture is blown up it will naturally begin to ‘soften’ especially when you are close up to the canvas, so the more in focus the original shot, the better it will enlarge.
This guide will only tell you how big your print could be blown up without the actual scan beginning to pixilate. The quality of the enlarged image depends so much on the original image, that a guide cannot really be given.
The only way that you can really check how well the scanned image enlarges, is, having scanned the print, getting it up on your screen and zooming in on it.

Retouching
With most images there is generally a little retouching required to clean up the image. This we will do free of charge, but for bigger jobs such as removing people from the background, we charge on a job to job basis.

Cropping
Within any picture can lurk a much better picture. Before you send the picture in, why not have a play around with it to see if you can find a crop that brings the picture alive?
When you send your photos in, we’ll also take a look at them to see if we can improve upon the picture sent.See how we improve you photos

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