photo issue

lrichmond86

I'm trying to order some mounted wall art from shutterfly... one of our wedding, one of our pup, and one of baby gary.  They're 16 x 20 prints.  Our wedding photo and dog look great, but they're telling me the resolution on baby Gary's picture is too low.  I scanned it in using the highest resolution my scanner offers (1200) but it still isn't liking it.  Any suggestions??  I would be heartbroken if I had to leave my beautiful boy off of our family photo wall!

Petunia844

What size is the original photo you're trying to scan?  If the original photo is smaller than the 16x20 size you want you won't be able to print it that large.  If it is bigger than that you may need to take it somewhere with a commercial scanner to get the quality you need.  Hope you get it figured out!

lrichmond86

Boo!  It's just a 4x6   Maybe I'll do a photo collage instead...  not really what I was going for though.

Mrs Nice

I don't have any advice, but I hope it works out for you!

asglover514

You can try scanning into a photo editing website first to resize it and make it as best as possible then try uploading it to Shutterfly. I just ordered a photobook from them for Aaron and it was shipped today, should be here next week!

Petunia844

lrichmond86:

Boo!  It's just a 4x6   Maybe I'll do a photo collage instead...  not really what I was going for though.

Yea... I mean you could technically print it larger, but the quality just won't be there unfortunately.  I like the idea of a collage, or maybe just print all 3 slightly different sizes, then it will look intentional... ? Kind of like this (just a warning this is a collage of family photos, it was the best example I could find): 

https://www.derksenphotographyblog.com/displaying-images/

 

lrichmond86

Thanks for your suggestions, ladies!  I'll have to look into this more before I decide...  It just seems that our family photo wall wouldn't been complete without him up there with us.  I'll figure something out.