Do You Hang Posters on Your Walls?
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Anyone who has visited me at my home office have remarked how stark and boring my walls are. I have literally nothing hanging on my office walls. I tend to get bored so fast with things on the wall that I end up wasting money. Now that I have an excellent color laser printer, I can print out really cool stuff to hang on the walls if I want to. But what if I want something bigger? What do I do?
I could always head over to Block Posters to create any size wall posters from any size images. It’s completely free, and very easy to use. I can upload any image I choose, and tell the service how many pages of paper to use for the poster width. Once you finish making your selections, save your image as a PDF file to your computer. Print it out and presto! You now have a huge pixel poster you can hang on your wall.
You’ll have to tape or somehow stick the pages together, of course. You could get fancy, and affix the sheets to cardboard. Then, use a clear sealant over the top of the whole thing… which you can buy inexpensively at any craft store. This will make sure that your poster doesn’t fade over time, and the cardboard will help keep it from being torn or ruined.
One tip I have is to make sure you upload pictures that are as high in megapixels as possible. A picture that is 640×480, for example, wouldn’t look good printed on one 8×10 sheet… let alone blown up to poster size! Use the largest mp that your camera will put out for you.
Thanks for passing along all of the cool links, and keep them coming. I really do check them all out, and I pass along all of the ones that I think all of you will enjoy.
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Andrew Darlow
July 16th, 2008
at 7:02am
Great tip Chris! I covered this topic in my book, 301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques, but I didn’t know that there was a free option. Here are two pieces of software that do the same thing, and both have free trials (the advantage, of course, is that you don’t have to upload the large file):
Windows: Digital Camera Poster Creator
Mac: DoubleTake
The links are L8.4 and L8.5 on this page
http://www.inkjettips.com/chapters/chapter-8/
I know that this is obvious, but many online photo services (and walk-in photo labs) make large prints (in one piece) from images that you upload, for very reasonable costs. I recommend either a continuous tone digital C-print, or an inkjet print using pigment inks (if longevity is important).
All the best!
Andrew
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Mike Cunningham
July 16th, 2008
at 8:48am
More than 10 years ago I had at my disposal a Xerox Copier/Printer with the Fiery (pc) attached. The Fiery gave you the option of creating posters on 24 8.5×11 sheets. his awesome printer/PC combo cost @ $85,000 at the time, It was a big improvement over the 2 Textronic Phaser IV Sublimation printers I previously used.
I’m guessing Xerox makes something similar for a lot less money today.
Xboxgamer
July 17th, 2008
at 2:07am
This is a sweet site! I now have a huge Phoenix Wright poster(Don’t ask) on my wall! The only thing I dislike is that it takes a lot of paper and ink.
Zetacon
July 17th, 2008
at 8:07am
I have one poster on my wall. I tend to frame my posters as well, to keep the good condition of the poster at hand. I bought another poster a while back, but I have not hung it up yet.
Sof
July 17th, 2008
at 7:56pm
I love to decorate my walls! I like to hang really cool posters, I would love a Silverchair’s poster, but here in Argentina is really hard to get one, so this web site that you mention is really really cool for that. Thanks!
When you said pixel poster i can’t help remember about a practical work that i did at university last year with a friend (we study graphic design). It’s a poster about a song, I actually have the printed one on my living room! You can see it here:
http://artsandnuts.blogspot.com/2007/12/disneylandia.html
Hope you like it!
Jose
July 17th, 2008
at 11:43pm
Cool.. thanks man!!!
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