Todays digital cameras can produce very large, high quality image files. These files can in turn produce very large, high quality prints.

The most important thing to remember when submitting a photo for enlargement printing is: send the best you've got.

A very common mistake is to use photo sharing software, which downsizes your file to speed transmission over the internet. The larger full size files may be cumbersome to send to freinds in an email, but they are essential for getting a high quality print.

The very first accessory a digital camera buyer should be looking for is additional camera memory.

In an attempt to balance picture quality with storage capacity many photographers are not getting the best image files their digital camera can produce. With the cost of digital storage solutions at an all time low, it simply doesn't make sense to shoot photos with a 5-8MP camera and save 1-2MP, overly compressed files in the interest of saving storage space.

Photos should be shot at the maximum quality, largest file size your camera is capable of. It is far better to shrink or crop a photo file for sharing later than it is to try to enlarge a highly compressed and or very small image for printing. Surprisingly this is often not the default setting in many digital cameras. Read your camera's manual, and check your storage settings.
If your camera can save .tif files, use this option . Although .tif files can be very large, you'll have the very best quality image file available from your camera for future use.

Always retain the original camera file by saving any alterations you may make under a new file name. This way you'll always have the original high quality image to work from. Repeatedly altering and re-saving a .jpg file re-compresses the file each time it is saved which can rapidly degrade the file quality.

A lot can be done today to enhance and enlarge digital images, but nothing beats having a high quality, full size digital file to start with. The larger the print you desire the more this becomes true.

Cropping images had never really been an issue until we could view the full frame on a monitor. Cropping or masking was always done in the past to acheive our film prints.

Whether or not your image will require cropping depends on the aspect your camera shoots and the print size you desire. Digitals don't perfectly match most standard frame aspects, especially the ones we are most familiar with from our days of film photography.
We do all of our cropping manually here and never leave it up to software. If we find the print aspect you have chosen just won't work, we'll offer alternatives.
If you are cropping your own images before sending them for print, it is very important that you crop to the print aspect. Nothing causes more printing surprises than using the crop tool in freehand (normal) mode to zoom in close to a subject.
We have some more information on cropping images here.

You can see some of the photo enlargement print sizes we offer in our automated shopping cart here.

Not sure if your photo file will produce the print you desire?

We're happy to give you a free and honest assessment without any obligation.

Just upload your file anytime. Please include at least your first name and email address on the form that's provided upon successful upload.

We also accept e-mail attachments under 10MB at photofiles@postersize-it.com

If you have any questions at all, feel free to contact us anytime