Effective Cropping in Aperture for large size prints

hi all,
any advice (in simple terms as I am new to digital slr photography - just assume I know very little) on the most effective way to crop photographs for large size prints. I just bought a Nikon D80 dslr - I have a photo of my daughter I really like and would to crop and then enlarge for a nice framed photograph. The original print is 3872 x 2592 and in cropped form it is 915 x 807 which appears quite small to me. Is there any chance of a decent large print. I used the aperture cropping tool - is there another way which preserves more resolution (not sure am using right word here) - or put differently what is the best way of getting a good cropped photo from this print. Apologies if that was a bit all over the place.

mdockrell wrote:
my main question are there methods of cropping pictures that enable one to keep as much detail as possible
Usually, when you crop you simply discard those pixels outside of the area you wish to keep so nothing is lost. It looks worse as you enlarge it on the screen but the retained area should be exactly the same as it was before cropping - just smaller. There are ways to uprez a photo that make it look better when enlarged - but detail cannot be invented! In photoshop you can try to increase the resolution in 10% steps until the image is a size suitable for a larger print. I've seen this used to good advantage but sometimes it simply looks horrible. Give it a try, you can't lose anything.

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Let e try to explain briefly...
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OH MY! THAT WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME THE WHOLE TIME!!
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