Starting with a .jpg taken by a cousin with an iPhone of a painting done by a relative.
Properties of the original .jpg I was sent per Gimp are:
42" x 56"
72 ppi
3.7 mb
RGB
It's a pic in sharp focus of the painting in a frame. The plan is to crop out just the painting, straighten it and bring it down to the original size of 23.5" x 29.25" and have it printed with some border around it for framing.
What do you recommend as the optimal workflow to go from the original to a format to have a print made of it and what method of printing do you recommend? Office Depot does prints that size as posters but they use a variety of inkjet printer and I wonder if there's something better that an actual print shop might use. The goal is to retain as much of the sharpness and detail as possible.
What DPI should I use for best results? I gather most places like .pdf as a file to print from? Is there a particular stock you recommend?
Thanks!
Properties of the original .jpg I was sent per Gimp are:
42" x 56"
72 ppi
3.7 mb
RGB
It's a pic in sharp focus of the painting in a frame. The plan is to crop out just the painting, straighten it and bring it down to the original size of 23.5" x 29.25" and have it printed with some border around it for framing.
What do you recommend as the optimal workflow to go from the original to a format to have a print made of it and what method of printing do you recommend? Office Depot does prints that size as posters but they use a variety of inkjet printer and I wonder if there's something better that an actual print shop might use. The goal is to retain as much of the sharpness and detail as possible.
What DPI should I use for best results? I gather most places like .pdf as a file to print from? Is there a particular stock you recommend?
Thanks!