Help with photoshopping a pic for my boyfriends 21st birthday?
Hi guys! Its my boyfriends 21st birthday coming up next week, and what I want to give him is a big professional looking poster of his car with a nice frame to put up in his room, because his car really is his pride & joy. BUT, I have a problem. I only have 1 appropriate looking picture of his car, and I cant take a new 1 because his cars paint job isn’t looking very nice at the moment. So I have to use the older picture. The thing is I want to change the background to black, and then make a reflection of the car like this picture has: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47195975@N03/4326823209/in/photostream/
so it looks like a professional poster you know?
I also need to get rid of the reflection on the bonnet & get rid of the tiny part of me that is showing through the window, and also maybe make the window look closed. The problem is that I don’t have a computer, Im using 1 of the university’s computers right now, and even if I did have a computer with photoshop on it, I wouldn’t know how to do it myself… So im hoping that somebody will help me out with this, im really desperate! I also need somebody to be able to tell me if I take this to a photo shop, will they be able to print it to A1 or A2 (poster size?) or if the pictures quality is too bad. If it is I’ve heard of interpolating the picture on photoshop or something, to improve the quality? Is this possible and if you can do that or something else that will make the picture be able to enlarge without looking horrible? Thank you so much everybody, I will give best answer to the person who does this for me, I can even post it multiple times & if you answer again I will best answer you again and again so that you can get lots of points! Hoping somebody can help me! oh, here is the pic of my boyfriends car that needs editing: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47195975@N03/4327555652/in/photostream/
Thanx for the feedback Selina. I guess I have no choice but to take a new picture then, even though the paint is peeling a bit. I have a Fujifilm A170, it has 10.2mega pixels. Will that be sufficient to take a good enough quality picture? Are there any tips I could use when taking a picture that I plan on enlarging, or any settings that I could change on the camera? And then, what size (in mb or kb) should the picture be afterwards when I check it on the computer so that I know it is big enough? Thanx so much for your help! Oh, and if my camera is not good enough to make an A1 or A2 picture, what size picture can I make with it?
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2 comments
selina_555 on March 11, 2010 at 9:48 pm
The link to the example isn’t working – it says it is private.
The link to the photo of the car does work, and shows a pic that is particularly small – 604 x 453 pixels only !!!!! That is only a fraction of your average P&S camera’s image.
To have decent quality prints you need 300 dpi, or at the very least 240 dpi.
At 240 dpi, the biggest you can get out of it will be 2.52″ x 1.89″, nowhere near the enormous A2 let alone A1 that you’re hoping for.
Yes, you can force an image to become bigger, but it will look terrible.
Upsizing is always an act of desperation. Even with the best of programs it isn’t an ideal solution.
Photoshop will let you do it to an extent, in small increments.
Genuine Fractals ($160) will do a better job but still has limits.
None of them can perform miracles, computers aren’t very good at inventing pixels that weren’t there in the first place.
You should ALWAYS have your camera set to the highest resolution (most pixels) and best quality (least compression). I’m afraid unless you have a MUCH bigger file for that photo, you won’t even be able to print it A4 size.
Nate on March 11, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Selina is right. In addition to what she already said, the picture you have is too small, it would take a serious professional a long time to get the effects you wanted on it, so maybe you should consider a slightly different option for his birthday?