For several years now I have been designing cover art for CD-ROMs.  What started out as a one here and one there has turned out to be over 250 published covers.  One of the biggest problems I faced when designing covers was poor or adequate art work to start with.  In many cases the art I was given was nothing more than DOS based screen captures or low to medium res photos.
Through trial and error I found out that by fooling my printer I could get more clarity in my prints.  In this tutorial I'll discuss the methods I have used in the past to take an image 179K in size,  jpg stored at 72dpi and create and image that is printable full page 8.5"x11"

The tutorial is shown using several different programs so that you get an idea that this process can be used over a variety of software titles.

The image I am using was download from a newsgroup and has been one of my favorite images for printing on Canvas, Silk and several other fabrics for use as samples at the computer shows we do.

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