How to Make Photos Biger with Little Loss of Quality

I’m a graphic artist and the biggest problem is size. You can always go down but not up. If you take a photo into gimp or photo shop and re-size it you can generally do 1/3rd the size with out using a blur. Two times size you want to use a blur. I prefer a Gaussian circular blur of 1/100th of the over all pixels. You do this because of the pix-elated photo and a the blur takes away the edge of the pixels. If you don’t care on quality, you can always do a sharpen. This is bad though. 90% of what you do in any photo editing programs is considered a destructive edit. You have to take away, move or even add pixels to make what ever it is happen. Sharpen is the worst. Sharpen takes the pixels and merges it with one to the side. Blur does the opposite, it doubles the pixels and the smears them. Blur is the best non destructive tool ever. That is a fact. Don’t do that! Only use the prior to fix photo size if quality doesn’t matter.

The best way to enlarge a photo its to take a photo of it. Strange, I know. The best way to do this is to set up a good dim light that will point strait down and a camera right next to it. Have the photo printed on a non glossy photo paper. The reason is light will glare. We already have to dim the light to try and stop that. The next reason is most all non glossy paper will absorb ink and do a natural blue. News paper is the best way to show see this natural blur. You cant see the printed pixels due to the blur. No photo program can remake this natural blur. Take the photo strait down at the photo at the size you want. There are close to 8 different types of blur that are all natural. Six of them are light blurs one is digital blur and natural ink spread, this make the effect close to the real photo.

Another way is to scan it in to the computer. Problems happen always and are expected. Say you print at 100 pixels per inch and you scan in at 400 pixels per inch. The printed pixels come with the scan and are seen at that size.. print on a natural blur paper. Non glossy is best due to natural blur or if the photo is a photography then scan at max size. Always scan at two time the pixel per pinch. If its 100 scan 200 reprint and scan again at 400.

Size in quality matters. Standard press will print at 600 pixels per inch. So if scanning for press go with 1200 or more. You can take a photo that is 2000 pixels per inch that is 4 x 4 inches down to 1000 pixels per inch at 8 x 8 inches. Always half and multiply. The best way to do this is to have the link functions active. Most image programs will have this. If the proper rules are not fallowed distortion will happen. Its best to let the computer do the math.

Understanding megapixels. I take photos at high quality. 10 megapixels is nice and my standard. A megapixels is the amount of pixels in comparison to a 4:3 inch photo. One mega pixel is close to 400 pixels per inch. Multiply that by the mega pixel so a 10 mega pixel image will be close to 4000 pixels per inch. That’s a big photo and can be taken down in pixels and enlarged in size and no loss of quality will happen. Keep this in mined when taking photos. You never know if it will go to press so always take the photo as if it were intended for press.

Is Design School Worth It

Trying to figure out whether or not design school is worth it? Me too. Read this article where I compare the pros and cons of going to design school.

The point of this article is more so to figure out my own interpretation of whether or not I feel it’s truly worth going to design school to pursue a career in design of any sorts based on statistics and fact.  In our generation, we have to face the cold facts that our economy isn’t in the shape we might have hoped it would be in when we reached the age of pursuing a college education.

                Let‘s get down to the facts.  When it comes to education, there isn’t a better way to increase your income, right?  Not necessarily.  Although a student with a Bachelor’s degree is statistically shown to make more than a student who has earned only an Associate’s degree, it isn’t a substantially larger amount.  On the other hand, you’re bettering yourself by getting an education, something that will remain with you throughout life and a useful set of skills that no one can take away from you.  Unless you don’t utilize them after college and forget, right?  Regardless of how skilled, the degree you’ve earned sticks with you.  So yes, it probably is worth the $40,000-$100,000+ student loans you will incur plus interest.  Or is it?

                You are not guaranteed a job after college by any means.  If you graduate from a technical college or state college they may offer certain help to point you in the right direction after graduation or may even offer you a couple of reasonable jobs.  But unless you’ve graduated from a health care position, most other opportunities are a lot more difficult to come by than just the referral of an office worker at your college.  So without the determination, you could just end up back at McDonald’s flipping hamburgers- nah, that’s a bit extreme.  How about back at the Gap selling clothes?

                The last thing you want is to end up back at square one (not that I work at the Gap or anything), and have incurred student loan bills and interest in the mean time.  So back to our main question, is design school worth it? Well, what are we referring to?  I’m specifically referring to graphic design, interior design, and fashion design and marketing.


Graphic design is one of those things that you can stay current with.  You can incorporate your own personal touch and make it modern while utilizing your skills to advertise products to your peers or people with similar interests.  Statistically, the numbers are in their favor if the skills are top notch.  A newly graduated graphic designer is statistically shown to make $2,000-$4,000 a week if they work in a studio (without overhead costs, you save a lot of money).  If you’re more of a free lancer, you will be looking at around $400-$800 a week depending on the volume of customers you acquire (remember you will be responsible for any advertising and might have overhead costs if you have an office).  The average yearly salary of a graphic designer would be somewhere between $40,000-$45,000 dollars.

                An interior designer on the other hand, could charge at an hourly rate for consultation and then charge an additional rate for floor plans, and execution.  Roughly, a skilled interior designer can make anywhere from $65-$80+ an hour and charge somewhere between $1000-$2000+ for floor plans and execution.  A yearly salary for a skilled interior designer would be around $70,000-$80,000 dollars.  This is quite a step up from the graphic designer’s income- no offense.

                A fashion designer has all the elements of the other two with similarities to creating and advertising but they also have to learn at least the basics for marketing as well.  They may own their own shop one day or work under a well known designer.  There are some perks however, to living in the Internet age.  Our brilliant technology erases the need for overhead of a store, when you can sell directly online reaching customers of indeterminable masses.  The lack of a store also erases the need for you to pay someone to stay in the store for potential customers that might mosey in and look at a few items but not buy.  A fashion designer has so many options as far as working for themselves or someone else.  But what is the income of a fashion designer if they are freelance?  The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the average salary of a fashion designer in 2008 was $61,160 dollars.  High end designers of course, statistically make millions.  But why just talk money?  To most artistic types that pursue these careers, it’s not about the money.  It’s about setting out to create a beautiful piece of work that can be admired by others.  To some it’s about getting their vision out there.  Or putting their name on something they can be proud of.

In the end it’s always up to you to pursue any career.  But in my opinion if you’re just sitting at home like me, an education in anything would pay off.   Everyone has some type of passion in life.  It’s about finding that passion, exploring its potential, and going for it!   

Learn About Brush Techniques in Adobe Photoshop

Based on the virtual reality information and also concentrate on viewers, you need to use almost any brushes and also design everything distinct.

Stay away from Clip art, Work with Images and also Pictures Brushes- If you wish to use bestial images or perhaps typical graphics with your style you need to use graphics and also photographs brushes. Usually when you use this pictures and also graphics brushes adequately, that they squeeze in a unique contact for a style. Even so, these kind of brushes are significant and also you must have for being an expert artist to work with them successfully.

Work with Handwriting Brushes to get a Traditional Seem- Manufacturers prefer to looking glass an outstanding and also stylish seem to be of their world-wide-web kinds, and also there’s nothing a lot more useful in comparison with handwriting brushes to complete the item adequately. Popular patterns leaves a protracted sustained affect this viewers brain and also applying handwriting brushes you can make the style some unforgettable.


Work with Paint and also Printer ink Get Splatter Brushes to improve The Style- If you wish to offer a stained manage to your internet site, you need to use colour and also printer ink drop splatter brushes.
Work with Grunge Brushes to get a Unclean Search- That you do not continuously need to style the cool and also clear structure to fascinate the goal viewers. At times a small tattered appear can help you remain out of the class. You possibly can provide the site the grunge appear by making use of this grunge brushes.
Produce The Style Interesting Using Area and also Developing Surroundings Brushes- Should you be setting up a web site to get a true house organization, you can certainly use pictures associated with substantial-increase structures plus a city with your web page reputation. Even so, rather associated with pics, you need to use city and also constructing surroundings brushes to mention the theory a great deal more effectively.
Watercolor Brushes Give you a Imaginative Appear- A high level designer and also arranging your own personal profile web page, after that watercolor brushes can be your fantastic alternative. Usually when you use proper coloration mixture with these kind of brushes, you possibly can make an impression on the goal crowd together with your creativity.

Work with Shining Collection Brushes- The particular shiny brushes assist you to to increase radiance with your design. These kind of brushes are ideal intended for featuring your Internet site a stylish seem to be.
Work with Halftone Brushes to get a Retro Seem- Halftone brushes provide your blog a basic and also sober appear. You need to use them with your whole style or perhaps using some aspects of your blog. They provide your internet site the vintage seem to be and also capture this viewers curiosity.

Photo shop brushes enhance the elegance of the web site design and also establish the credibility to be a artist. Work with these kind of brushes thoroughly with your kinds and also men and women can ribbon as a result of the innovative enigma. mother.

Brushes are the major component of a lot of methods within the resource, and also self-assured clean managing is critical for your effective application of such. You might want to figure out brushes since this will give you various solutions with used and also alter brushes can equip you with a completely number of functionality, and allow you access to some substantial choice of effective and also imaginative time-saving techniques.

The particular Brush Preset picker can you to locate the precise clean fast consequently make the most of the item