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June 13, 2008, 04:08:35 PM

Back in my days of film....I captured a cool porch scene at a Louisiana Plantation.
I want to now print it and frame it and put it on my wall. (I finally have a house it would look nice in)
BUT! I cant for the life of me locate the negative! I have a feeling that many moves ago, I put it in a "safe place" so that I could do what I now want to do. And its such a safe place, I cant find it.
I have a few 4x6 prints of it.
Do you think I have any chance of any quality reproduction from the print I have? Even only up to about an 8x10? I'd ideally like a 16x20, but Im thinking no.

ARGH.

Thoughts??

Corey

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Reply #1 - June 13, 2008, 04:13:21 PM

I've never had much luck blowing things up like that even from a negative....so my only thought would be to get a hold of a really expensive scanner where you can scan at like 1500 dpi. Big Grin

I was taking a Photoshop class in college a while ago, and we took old pictures and were correcting them, I had a 4x6 (I think...it may have been slightly bigger than that) and made it into an 8x10 and it looked decent. And it was only printed at 150 dpi, after I finished correcting it, I reduced it. So I think it should be possible...

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Reply #2 - June 13, 2008, 04:38:15 PM

I have gotten a decent 8x10 from a 4x6, take it somewhere to be scanned if you don't have a nice scanner, shouldn't cost much.

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Reply #3 - June 13, 2008, 04:55:45 PM

The best thing to do is to take it to a lab and ask if they can scan it and if it will reproduce the detail you want at 16X20 and if they can make a scan that will allow you to print that big. I have done a restoration off of a 4X6 that was scanned, it will print 16X20 beautifully, but I really think it's going to depend on the image and what you want out of it.

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Reply #4 - June 13, 2008, 11:33:09 PM

Alright.
Thanks guys.
I'll take my little photo print in and beg for help.
Sad

Wish me luck.
Big Grin

Corey

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Reply #5 - June 16, 2008, 02:42:30 PM

Sorry this is so late. Take the image and have it scanned on a drum scanner it will create a 50+ meg file from a 4x6. You'll then need to take the digital image and do noise reduction and boost the curves a bit.

That photo will print 16x20 or even 20x30 if you want.

The down side is drum scanning is not cheap.

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Reply #6 - June 17, 2008, 10:05:52 AM

ok I'll look into that. Thanks

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