Make the Best of Your Pictures

When using photos and images in printing projects for your business, you want to make sure they look their best, in turn making you look your best. However, the best photos or images you have may not have been taken by you, or even by a professional photographer, so while the image of your boss playing tennis at the charity event is perfect for the community page in your Annual Report, the resolution is not good enough for you to print the photo as large as you would like.

If you’re unable to get in when the photo is taken and exchange a phone camera for a dedicated digital camera, you may have to make the best of the images you do have. However, this doesn’t mean discarding them and just using them on your website where the resolution has to be low anyway, it just means getting the best out of what you have.

If the tennis photo is small, there is no way you can make it, any bigger after it has been taken. Making a small photo bigger will reduce its resolution, and if it wasn’t there to begin with, you will end up with a photo the right size, but one which looks grainy – or pixelated. Photos taken in high resolution to begin with have a lot of room to play with when you want to enlarge them, because their resolution is higher, and more information was captured from the beginning when the photo was taken.

However, don’t despair, because while you may not be able to blow up your photo to a full page shot, you can still use it to its best effect. This simply means playing around with the photo in your computer’s media program, or getting your designer to do the same. In this way you can see at what point, or size, the photo looks its best, and there is a high enough resolution to get a quality print out.

Therefore, when using a photo with a low resolution in your next printing project, make sure you have it at the right size, and instead of using it as a full page shot, you can use it as part of a series of photos from the event, all of which look their best at individual sizes.

For more information about printing your photos at their optimum resolution, contact Print Compare now.