Photoshop Tips: Increasing Image Resolution to Make Large Prints
This story is taken from “50 Fast Photoshop CS Techniques.”
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Thanks to advances in digital camera technology, it’s easier than ever to take great-looking images. And thanks to improvements in Adobe Photoshop CS, it’s easier than ever make those images look good on screen.
But what about making large-size prints from those images? Is that easier, too? Well yes, it is.
For years the conventional wisdom has been to never upsample — increase the resolution of — an image. That conventional wisdom is being challenged by new techniques and better software.
In this excerpt from “50 Fast Photoshop CS Techniques,” you’ll see how to increase the resolution of an image so that it looks good when printed at a large size.
We’ve posted this excerpt as a PDF file. All you do is click the link “Increasing Image Resolution to Make Large Prints” to open the PDF file in your Web browser. You can also download the PDF to your machine for later viewing.
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Excerpted from “50 Fast Photoshop CS Techniques” by Gregory Georges. Copyright © 2004 Wiley Publishing. All rights reserved. Reproduced here by permission of the publisher.
This article was last modified on January 3, 2023
This article was first published on October 15, 2004
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