Photo Enlargement – The Opportunity to “Do More” by Resizing an Image

In addition to our restoration services we also offer photo enlargement, as shown in this project.

The original image came to us for restoration as a 4×4 black and white.

Close inspection indicated that the original photograph was very good quality, possibly shot with a professional camera.

The print was a chemical print, done by a lab, and easy to scan.

The original image was 4×4, a total of 16 square inches.

By enlarging 4 times (16×16) we now have an amazing 256 square image on the wall
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This is 16 TIMES more picture, and 16 times the impact!

Not all images can be enlarged, however any photo printed before the age of dot matrix printers, typical of old school photos, Brownie cameras with plastic lenses, school photos printed on textured paper, usually do not enlarge well on a printer.

We always inspect your original to determine the quality of the original image “as shot”, then the quality of the printing itself, and confirm suitability for enlargement and reprinting.

The better the original, the better the reproduction. We have been successful with restorations that were enlarged as much as 24 times, when the original was done by a commercial photographer with a good camera, and the development of the print was done chemically.