Portraits From Photos – Garbage in Garbage Out
Although the title from this entry seems a little harsh, it’s really just to make a point. Unless you were involved with creating custom pop art portraits from photos you would not really know that not all images are created equally- Some are better then others.
At the studio we constanly receive images taken with an old and outdated camera. The camera you purchased 5-10 years ago does not create the ame resuts as the one you bought 1-3 years ago. Without getting technical your camera has a mega pixel marking on it somewhere. Anything less the 7.5 megal pixels will not be able to create the best results. If you have a 5 megal pixel camera you can set it to the highest resolution and take a picture but still results will vary. Most digital cameras manufactured today have at least 10.0 mega Pixels and will create fantasticcustom pop art and portraits from photos results no matter what the setting is. Obviously, a higher setting will have more mega pixels so it best to take photos that you want turned into custom pop art on the highest setting. Anything less the 180 dpi and less then 2000-3000 in dimensions and less then 180 DPI is a challenge to work with.
To find out information about your digital picture right click the image and a box will appear. At the bottom of the box it will show properties. Click properties and ontop click details. You will see both the dimension and DPI.
A custom oil panting portrait can be done in lower Dimension and DPI but like mentioned before creating a digital materpiece will be a challenge.
A little while back a customer sent a 96 dpi pic which was very low resolution. He loved the picture of his family and only wanted to use that particular image- I pleaded with him and explained he would not get a good result. After a lengthy conversation on this matter I gave in and created the image in out Phsychedelica style he wanted. Not terrible as you can see but not our best.
If you need any technical information we always are here to answer your custom pop art questions.