What's the maximum printing size my image could be?

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Hi all, someone's interested in a picture of mine. I shot it in Raw, edited/cropped slightly and saved it as a Jpeg (for uploading onto the web).

My camera is a D40 so only has 6 megapixels. The jpeg is currently 3008x1774, and the pixels per inch is 240.

I'm just wondering what the maximum size could be without losing quality. I'm currently exchanging emails with him so i'm unsure as of the size he wants yet.

I still have the raw version, and could edit it again, the changes are only minor. Is there anything else I can do in Photoshop to help?

Edit: I've just edited the raw file again. First thing I did was change the DPI to 300, is this better? Also, what should I save it as?
 
You really need to ask the recipient how he wants the file.

Tiff is my fav. for printing. For big sizes you can use fotosizer (as mentioned in the previous link) or Genuine Fractals or Qimage.

Tiffs can be enormous if you are thinking of Emailing.

Depends what he wants really. :shrug:
 
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Edit: I've just edited the raw file again. First thing I did was change the DPI to 300, is this better? Also, what should I save it as?
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Better? Its meaningless, when you print an image it dosn't say "Oh, this is a 300dpi image, you must print at 300dpi", it simply asks me how big i want to print and ignores that 300dpi tag you set.

Just save it as something lossless, tiff, psd, something like that.

Could do 10x6 feet if you wanted, really depends on the viewing distance.

If its something a person is just going to walk up to and look at closely, then 10x6 inches.

If its something your going to stand back a bit from then i wouldn't worry too much upto 25x15 or so. Bigger than that and i'd put a bit more effort into processing it to look its best and then something like genuine fractals.
 
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