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How to Determine a Digital Photo's Enlarged Sizes or Format
For this example we will use a Canon 6 megapixel digital photo and process the original photo file for a target size of 16x20.
 
Sample Digital Photo

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Step 01:
Open the digital photo file in your image editing application such as Adobe Photoshop. Any version of the program will work. Other image editing application will work.
Step 02:
Go to the "image size" window. For Photoshop applications click:
Image > Image Size
or
Image > Resize > Image Size

With other image editing applications the procedure should be similar.
Step 03:
Make sure "Constrain Proportions" is checked. This function will maintain the photo's width to height ratio.
 
Step 04:
Since our target enlargement size is 16x20, first try entering 20 in the Document Size Width space in the Image Size window.



You can see that is will not work for a 16x20 target size, as the photo's height will only be 13.333 inches.
Step 05:
Next try entering 16 in the Document Size Height space of the Image Size window.



You can see that this will work for producing a 16x20 enlargement, although you can also see that the enlarged photo will need to be cropped 4" from the photo's width to create a 16x20 print.

The 16x24 size would be the photo's uncropped, full image size. This also tells you the digital photo is a "Wide Format Digital Camera" photo, when checking the full image size in the Print Size/Price chart on our Website.
Important Note:
After checking your digital photo's sizes in the Image Size window, be sure to click "CANCEL" when closing the Image Size window. Otherwise you may
re-size or resample the original photo file, which could alter the photos original image quality.
You could enter any dimensions in the width or height spaces of the Document Size section just to see what different sizes your digital photo could create. If your digital image file has been cropped, this sizing method will also tell you exactly what sizes could be produced from the cropped image.

Be sure to "CANCEL" the Image size window when closing, and if you are sending us your digital image for enlarging and printing, the finest quality print results will always come from the original resolution digital file. No need to try and boost resolution by resampling or re-sizing the file, as our advanced software systems will do this with absolute original image quality results.
 
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