terrorized by a toad

[Lemon law]

Or actually a tree frog that I think is a grey tree frog but oh well.

But the long and short of the story is that said tree frog has climbed up our outside dining room window every night for the past week. Its not that my wife and I want to hurt the cute little frog in any way, we just want to print a photo and enlarge it to viewable size.

So last night I took my Canon XSI, went outside, with only its kit lens, tried to auto focus on the frog , and took a photo with its Canon Kit flash. Downloaded it to my photos and took a look at it.

Of course a 1.5 inch of so frog only occupied a itsy bitsie part of the frame, but in various PDF photo viewers I am able to blow up the frog until its occupies the whole frame on my computer screen because I took the picture in raw format without losing much resolution
as I enlarge it.

Then I save the enlarged image and try to print it on an inkjet printer, and instead I get the original image not enlarged a bit. What additional software do I need to print the enlarged image.

 

[fralexandr]

did any software come with your canon xsi?
all you have to do is crop the image, and save it right?
is there a way to select part of the image in the pdf photo viewer and either copy it and paste the result in paint? or crop it with the photo viewer?

 

[Fayd]

Or actually a tree frog that I think is a grey tree frog but oh well.

But the long and short of the story is that said tree frog has climbed up our outside dining room window every night for the past week. Its not that my wife and I want to hurt the cute little frog in any way, we just want to print a photo and enlarge it to viewable size.

So last night I took my Canon XSI, went outside, with only its kit lens, tried to auto focus on the frog , and took a photo with its Canon Kit flash. Downloaded it to my photos and took a look at it.

Of course a 1.5 inch of so frog only occupied a itsy bitsie part of the frame, but in various PDF photo viewers I am able to blow up the frog until its occupies the whole frame on my computer screen because I took the picture in raw format without losing much resolution
as I enlarge it.

Then I save the enlarged image and try to print it on an inkjet printer, and instead I get the original image not enlarged a bit. What additional software do I need to print the enlarged image.

why not just crop?

 

[Lemon law]

The point is that is that I cropped the photo in pdf viewers, saved the cropped image, and when I went to print, and all I got in printed form was the original uncropped photo which is exactly what I did not need. I need to print my saved cropped image which is quite sufficient in detail.

I need better than that when I send the picture to a printer, maybe I am ignorant of properly using the existing software or I need better software that will do what I need it to do.

 

[sixone]

Or actually a tree frog that I think is a grey tree frog but oh well.

But the long and short of the story is that said tree frog has climbed up our outside dining room window every night for the past week. Its not that my wife and I want to hurt the cute little frog in any way, we just want to print a photo and enlarge it to viewable size.

So last night I took my Canon XSI, went outside, with only its kit lens, tried to auto focus on the frog , and took a photo with its Canon Kit flash. Downloaded it to my photos and took a look at it.

Of course a 1.5 inch of so frog only occupied a itsy bitsie part of the frame, but in various PDF photo viewers I am able to blow up the frog until its occupies the whole frame on my computer screen because I took the picture in raw format without losing much resolution
as I enlarge it.

Then I save the enlarged image and try to print it on an inkjet printer, and instead I get the original image not enlarged a bit. What additional software do I need to print the enlarged image.

You aren't saving an "enlarged image". You're saving a view of the image. As you've discovered, you're printing the original image. Viewers only view, they can't crop.

You need a photo editor to edit the original image, to crop out the portions you don't want to print. Start with the software that came with your cam.

 

[CurseTheSky]

You need a photo editor. Depending on the file format the camera saves to, Paint.NET will probably be able to help you. It's a free photo program with a decent feature set, a user interface similar to (though far less complex than) Photoshop, and it's fairly user friendly. http://www.getpaint.net/.

Open up the photo in Paint.NET. Use the rectangular select tool (top left of the toolbox) to select exactly what you'd like to print. Press Ctrl+X (or go to Edit -> Cut) to cut your selection. Press Ctrl+N (or File -> New) to create a new file; the height and width of the New File dialog should automatically match your cropped image; hit Ok. Press Ctrl+V (or Edit -> Paste) to paste in the section of the image that your previously selected / cut. From there, you can save it and / or print it. Be sure NOT to save the original image that you cut the section from if you want to keep it as it was; if you click the exit the program when you're done, it'll ask you if you'd like to save changes to the other image.

 

[Lemon law]

Ureka, CurseTheSky, finally some advice I can use.

 

[Mopetar]

If you don't want to buy any photo editing software, just blow up the picture and hit your print screen key. Paste the result into a MS Paint image and save it. The result won't be as nice as using Photoshop or something like it, but it's quick and dirty.

 

[Griffinhart]

Did your friend look anything like this guy?

I used my 18 to 105mm zoom at 105mm to capture that image.

 

[Lemon law]

Griffenhart asks, " did my friend look anything like this guy "

Sadly in a word no, your guy is way too green and my guy has only three toes.

But still its a excellent pic of your guy. I hope you are properly terrorized.