Dungeon Crafter: printing output

[MarauderX]

I have been fooling around with the free version of Dungeon Crafter and it has some good looking output that I can use as a DM to quickly get a dungeon going. The output is in bitmap (*.bmp) format and I was considering importing the map into Paint or Photoshop, scaling it up (1"=5'), and printing it to lay down for the game. The only drawback to doing so is that the color corridors and details get grainy when enlarged (by about x4.5). Is there another way to do this and print out my own good-looking dungeons? Another program, a way to enhance the output, whatever will work is good for me, I just don't want to invest a lot of $$.

Thanks so much -

~ MX

 

[Hand of Evil]

Should be able to do this with an image editor and Photoshop should be able to, check options on resizing an image make sure you are not resampling the image only resizing it, you also should check other options, possibly saving image to jpeg then resizing.

 

[MarauderX]

... you also should check other options, possibly saving image to jpeg then resizing.

Yeah, I can't save it as a jpeg, only as a bmp. That was my first option, and I looked smoothing and sharpening in photoshop, but it just isn't coming out well enough to my discriminating eye. And I know photoshop could eventually do it, call me lazy but I don't want to have to take 53 steps to get good output for each lair I create as it would take too much time.

I am in the midst of checking out Dungeon Art too; any good news on that program?