NEVERMIND: FIGURED IT OUT---What Am I Doing Wrong????

[mom2aidan]

Okay, I have a bride who wants a 16x20 bridal print. She chose the photo and all that good stuff. Now I am trying to find someone that isn't TOO expensive but that will also frame it. Funny thing is she wants a stretched FRAMED canvas...hard to find really. The sites I have found that do frame stretch canvas, I have uploaded the photo she wants for the 16x20 but then it says the resolution is too low or when I make the resolution higher, the photo comes out all fuzzy and blurry and such...what am I doing wrong? What size should I make the photo in photoshop to save it to make it print out as a decent 16x20???
And any suggestions on framed stretched canvas print sites would be great...really dont need something that is over $200.

[Tom]

When cropped to 16x20, what is the dpi?

[mom2aidan]

where do i find that in photoshop CS3??? LOL...sorry dont know much about resizing in photoshop as i have never ordered anything bigger than an 8x10. :(

mom2aidan added 0 Minutes and 18 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

sounds dumb i know but i dont do a lot of resizing stuff in photoshop

[S-Man]

If you have CS3, I assume you have Bridge also?
In Bridge you can see by clicking the image and viewing the metadata.
I just noticed that in JPEG files saved once from the original RAW files are 240dpi. whereas JPEG files that I've opened and edited/saved more than once are 72dpi. I wonder if it has to do with saving JPEG over JPEG that keeps decreasing the dpi?

Anywho, print shops usually like a minumum of 240 dpi.
SmugMug offers 16x20 wrapped canvas for $90+shipping. I viewed that from my site, and that's my cost.
There's also a place in Houston called HPI, or Houston Photo Imaging. I'm sure they do that sort of thing. I'm not sure on prices though.
You can check with WHCC too.

[mom2aidan]

my bridge isn't working for some strange reason...oh well. when i go to photoshop cs3 and open image size this one (unsaved version) was 240dpi (before I enlarged it....but it froze and closed on me so i dont remember what i enlarged it to before it crashed...darn it)

[carrbowl]

in CS3 here's a photo of what you can see for the size of you photo...you can see the resolution which is the dpi

[S-Man]

Ah, yes...I overlooked that. I was looking so hard for it that I missed it!

[carrbowl]

that's what happens when you know too much...some of us have to keep life simple!!!

[studiocygnet]

Originally Posted by mom2aidan

my bridge isn't working for some strange reason...oh well. when i go to photoshop cs3 and open image size this one (unsaved version) was 240dpi (before I enlarged it....but it froze and closed on me so i dont remember what i enlarged it to before it crashed...darn it)

If it's 240 before you enlarge it, it's going to be too few pixels per inch for a 16x20. You need 240ppi x 16=3840 on the short side, and 240 x 20=4800 on the long side. So you might look at going back to the original before it was jpeged, and see if the size is big enough to start with. If you've got a raw capture, just work on it without saving to jpeg. Save as a psd (photoshop document) until it's sized correctly and all the work is done. Only then should you save another copy as a jpeg for emailing and web use. If you don't have a raw capture, and your jpeg's too small, you may need to get Genuine Fractals to upsize it.

[mom2aidan]

i have the raw and jpeg version of it but i spoke with a close photographer friend over the phone and figured out what i was doing so it is no biggie now! thanks though!