A little advice about a large image

[ppcass]

I have a family shoot in the morning and I know going in that they will be ordering a 20x30 (landscape). Is this best shot in raw and converted to a tiff (Millers will accept tiff files) or does anybody have any advice on how to handle this? First time shooting and ordering one this big.

[PeteQ]

I would always shoot anything important in RAW. Heck, I shoot everything in RAW anyway... Once I do any adjustments and whatever, I usually upload in JPG and have not had any issues. I have used Mpix and Millers and have been pleased with the results. I do not have them do any color correction as I do all that in my processing. I did an 8x10 in JPG and TIFF upload versions and could not tell the difference with their print results. Neither could my informal panel of expert friends and family. Maybe on a large image the TIFF might be better, but I just did a 16x20 and used JPG to upload and was very pleased....

[bluman95]

I have had MPIX print off a 16x24 that looked awesome and a 20x30 that was just a hair fuzzy if you were closer than about a foot. Both JPG and I did all the color correction myself.

[CaptainTom]

I haven't tried sending a TIFF for printing. I have had great results with ElCO in New Jersey.

My advice would be to contact the Miller rep. and ask them what they prefer. They know what their equipment will do.

Or, send it both TIFF and JPG.

[johnastovall]

Shot in raw but before converting to tiff you may want to look at upsampling it to the larger image size. Are you using CS2 for post processing?

[ppcass]

Yes I use CS2. Not familiar with the steps to upsample.

[LoungeLizard]

From what I've read - and been told - you should let the labs upsample using THEIR dedicated software. As someone explained, they're running $15K software for upsampling and that's all it does. You're running $700 PSCS - which among all it does is upsample.