Is 6MP enough to print on a 60x45cm canvas?

[DDA]

Well, everything is said in the title...

Printing a picture on a canvas will induce a loss of resolution. Therefore, I wonder if a 6MP picture will give a good result on a 60x45cm canvas.

Has anyone any thoughts or experience?

Thanks for the help ;-)

[cdifoto]

That's 'only' 24x18 inches. Not really pushing 6MP very much if good uprezzing is used and the image is good to begin with.

[DDA]

Thanks for the quick answer!

What kind of preparation should I do (I'm using PS Elements) aside of basic PP? (I'm sure there is a tutorial somewhere, but it's time to go to bed... I'll look for it tomorrow ;-) )

The picture has been taken wit a P&S and I only have jpeg to play with...

[cdifoto]

I'm not a large print expert. When I had my XT and printed 20x30s, I'd just send the JPEG with basic sharpening to the lab and they did the rest.

[wsmith]

I suggest using noiseless 100 or 200 ISO photos and ressampling to twice the dpi at 24M pixels using bicubic or lanczos.

[droiby]

You know... if you stand far away enough from the canvas, it doesn't matter what resolution your print is :p

[tzalman]

this might be useful:
http://www.outbackphoto.com/workflow/wf_60/essay.html

[DDA]

Thanks for this useful info (and the last link) I'll play with it tonight...

[tim]

60cm is easy, i've done 1 meter photographic prints from a 6MP file. On canvas you'd get away with much more since detail is hidden by the canvas texture anyway.

No special file preparation is needed, just make sure you have a well exposed JPG and email to the lab, tell them to do whatever they think necessary. I don't even sharpen them.