Print size.

[Paul]

I use a bog standard canon A480 for all of my photographs, it's a good little camera and does what i want it to do.
My question is this, it is set to give a image of 3648x2736 i want to reprint some photographs of the kids on the beach, what sizes would you recommend for output sizes for printing etc.
Thanks.

 

[Hoogle]

well always keep your camera settings at the best quality that way when ever you take it somewhere to be printed they scale it down and still perfect quality as to what size you should be printing it out a standard photo is 6 x 4 inches enlargements are 8 x 10 but you and so on so it will fit the image to that size as long as you keep the aspect ration it will always look good in print

 

[Steve]

The recommended image resolution is 300 ppi, so based on that you can print a 12X9.
With that said I have a 11X14 print that was shot with a 4mp camera.

 

[siodre]

take each side and divide by the ppi for the size in inches. if they aren't photos people will be scrutinizing up close then you might be able to get away with 200 ppi. all of my commercial prints are done at 300 ppi.

 

[PhotoshopWarrior]

Once i printed and i kept the resolution around 300 PPI and the print out size was 11*4.. You might try it out..