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

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

this might be useful:
http://www.outbackphot​o.com/workflow/wf_60/e​ssay.html

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

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.