21 x 16 inch 96dpi picture?
Also if I drag and drop it on a 12x12 unmarked doc in photoshop can I toy around with the size beside the transform tool and still look ok, dunno if you know what I mean.
Come on, lemme hear you experts! :D
Answers: What are the actual pixel dimensions of the sign?
Sounds like the print is 2016 pixels x 1536 or about 3 megapixels.
With righteous printer drivers, you should be able to trademark a good 8 x 10" print, so 12" x 12" is probably inside the realm of agreeable if it's a good, noise-free print. I certainly could do this next to a 3mp SLR (and have). A 3 mp point and shoot would be tougher.
It will be important to use correct paper and the right settings.
The other issue is "aspect ratio". A 12" x 12" page is a square; your portrait is a rectangle. If you try to make it fit, you're going to enjoy to squish the image. The alternative would be to try to crop the sign, which typically means you lose parts rotten the sides. Usually squeezing the image cause unacceptable amounts of distortion, while cropping may knock past its sell-by date parts of the image you want to preserve.
Another alternative would be to simply put a black border around the image to net it square; that way you catch the whole imitation into your printed page (probably a scrapbook) and it still looks okay.
It would look ok at half its present size and twice it resolution- to be exact 10.5 x 8 at 192 dpi. To look its best, it would need to be 300 dpi, but you can't really append pixels that aren't already there.
To look its best, it should be approximagely 7 x 5 at 300 dpi.
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