| hondacuraworld |
Is there a place that I can go to, to have a .jpg image turned into a large poster? It's a very good quality photo, I need it blown up to as large a size as possible
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| Mando |
| Usually printing shops can help you with this. Did you try calling some printshops in town? |
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| hondacuraworld |
| No, honestly I didn't. I had no idea that it's a walk in kind of thing. |
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| MDteX |
| Do what Mando suggests. Many print shops can use your digital picture/image to print from. We uploaded a family pic to Kinkos and had them print our Christmas Cards. They had them done in 1 day. |
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| hondacuraworld |
| Yes but the only thing is that I'm going to need a large poster, at least 36" in the larger dimension. Do they have printers that large? |
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| kflint |
| Take a look at this site: Andromeda Software. Click "community" (listed in the banner navigation bar at the top) and then select "digital cameras". They rate on-line photo album sites, many of which provide photo printing services, including really large (poster sized) prints. |
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| evoge |
There's off-the-shelf software to make a standard digital image into a poster or banner (or billboard, maybe) without losing quality. I just saw it in the MacMall catalog.
Any good digital print shop should know what they're doing. |
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| VA Tech Hokie |
Yes, Wal-Mart online can print a poster up to 36 X 48.
I have used Wal-Mart online several times, including enlargements
up to 8x10 and have been very pleased with their work.
Their prices seem reasonable also.
Go to www.walmart.com and select the photo tab, then
enter the word 'poster' in the search window and you will see what
you need. |
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| kflint |
| From a quick search at DPReview , I found a lot of people are recommending Photoaccess . Their pricing for poster-sized prints is here . I haven't personally used this site. |
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| hondacuraworld |
I just ordered from there, thanks very much for the advice!
This picture I need is going to be a display. This year marks the 50th anniversary of color television. Of the first sets ever produced (by RCA) back in 1954, only 74 are known to exist in the world, many in museums and such. I'm fortunate enough to own two of them. Kind of the holy grail of television history.
I'm attempting to get my sets put on public display at a museum or in conjunction with a local television station, and have a hi-res pic of the assembly line where they were built (that would look great to have behind the sets). Here's a picture of my one set, almost completely reassembled. |
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| tax_atty |
| Very cool Tim. I remember my grandparents had two really old TVs. One was a black and white with a built in stereo and the other was one of the first color TVs. The color TV looked kinda like yours but I can't tell you if it was the same or not. I just remember stories that Grandpa bought one of the first color TVs and everyone from the neighborhood would come over to watch TV. I think the family sold the TVs to an antique dealer when my grandparents passed away. Oh well, I'd love to have those TVs now! |
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| greatscot |
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Originally posted by hondacuraworld
Yes but the only thing is that I'm going to need a large poster, at least 36" in the larger dimension. Do they have printers that large?
Tim,
I make my own monthly Safety posters at work, using our employees on the poster (seems to be a big deal to them) I use my little Sony Cybershot 3.2 megapixel on its highest resolution, and I have them printed at Kinkos on poster size.
The person selected "doing something safe" is on the poster doing what I "caught" them doing. The poster goes up at all our facilities for a month, after the month is over, the person is presented a copy of the poster framed, movie passes for two, along with free sodas, popcorn, and candy in front of their peers.
Quality of the posters is very good. |
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| greatscot |
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Originally posted by hondacuraworld
I just ordered from there, thanks very much for the advice!
This picture I need is going to be a display. This year marks the 50th anniversary of color television. Of the first sets ever produced (by RCA) back in 1954, only 74 are known to exist in the world, many in museums and such. I'm fortunate enough to own two of them. Kind of the holy grail of television history.
I'm attempting to get my sets put on public display at a museum or in conjunction with a local television station, and have a hi-res pic of the assembly line where they were built (that would look great to have behind the sets). Here's a picture of my one set, almost completely reassembled.
Tim,
will we be seeing you on the "Antique Roadshow" anytime soon? |
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| hondacuraworld |
Trust me, I ain't lugging this big heavy thing ANYWHERE! :cool:
Besides which, I'd have to find an expert in the area of early color television equipment, of which there are only about a dozen or so (and I'm one of them :p )
I could always interview myself I suppose :D |
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| laborlitigator |
| Usually a photography studio or an evidence store can do it. I've had exhibits enlarged for trial to poster size. |
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| Taiwanese |
| I got some printed by Kinkos for our trade show booth. They are poster size and pretty good quality. I think your original has to be good to begin with. We used 5mega pixel camera at highest resolution. |
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| crmsnidol |
Tim,
You may want to clean the pic up before printing. Examples would be remove the carpeting, trim moulding, etc. If you are trying to seel it, you could add a nostalgic background to it. I played around a little with this admittedly low-res image but you'll get the idea. The Uncle Miltie image doesn't work well because most is hidden but you probably have ideas. Here is an example. |
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| hondacuraworld |
WHOA!!! :eek: Now you're making me wish I'd have finished assembling it before I took the picture! HAHAHA
That isn't the pic I need done, the one I need is of the sets going down an assembly line, as a background for the two sets I have. Pretty cool I thought.
But MAN!!! NICELY done! |
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| cp_ssrebba |
| next time you have something like this, take it to the service bureau or pre-press service center. You can call local printer to find out the number also. They will have HP or Encad large format inkjet printer that uses more durable ink and coating than just regular inkjet printer. it is needed especially if you are hanging outside or window. Even indoor, it will last longer. |
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| XStatic |
| Cool TV Tim, what is the picture you are printing? |
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| hondacuraworld |
Thanks to crmsnidol, a whole new one :)
I'll post it when I get one in a postable size :) |
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| crmsnidol |
| original RGB 72dpi image |
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| crmsnidol |
Final selection.
Tim's need is to highlight his pieces on display. Since they are vintage color televisions, I thought it would be interesting to grayscale the image and have the TV's show through in color so as not to distract from the live pieces on display.
The final version was converted to 300dpi CMYK. The examples you see here are "board-safe" and had their quality levels dropped to meet posting requirements.
For you Pshoppers out there, I duped the image and converted to grayscale. Auto-corrected the contrast and copied the layer into the color image .psd file. With the B&W layer on top, I used the Magnetic Lasso for the bulk of the selection and deleted the "gray" selection area resulting in the color one below showing through. There are hundreds of ways to work in Photoshop to achieve the same results. This is just my way but not necesarrily the best though it took less than 30 mins. For tight selections I used the Eraser (anti-aliased) and blew the image up 800% for the fine tuning. There will still be pixelation occuring in the final poster due to the low resolution of the original but I tried my best to make sure the lareger size doesn't accentuate errors on my part. |
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| crmsnidol |
I also did a take on the TV pixels. I thought it might look cool on a large poster - similar to those stereograms that were all the rage a few years back. This filter is called halftone and is highly adjustable. It would be easy to add a subliminal message to this one like "buy more parts from Tim" but Tim didn't want any copy added to the images. :)
Due to the large amount of data in the image, the version here had to be dropped to 7 quality to get under the 100k restriction. |
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| mlkeller |
crmsnidol-
Wow, very impressive! :6: :7: |
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| crmsnidol |
quote:
Originally posted by mlkeller
crmsnidol-
Wow, very impressive! :6: :7:
Thanks. |
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| XStatic |
So is this what you have, Model CT-100 "The Merrill"?
the new RCA CT-100, an all-electronic, fully compatible color television set. Price: $1,000. Had a 12-1/2 inch viewable screen size. Sales: 75,000 predicted -- less than 5,000 sets actual.
** Most collectors and historians consider this to be America's first color TV. **
In December of 1954, RCA introduced their 21" color TV. Several other manufacturers had already begun to offer 19" sets for sale. Consequently, RCA was pressured to buy back the few CT-100's purchased earlier that year and replace them with the new and improved 21" sets. Dealers cut the remaining CT-100's in stock to $495.00 in order to try and sell them. The warehouses were full of unsold CT-100 sets. RCA donated many of these recalled and unsold sets to colleges, universities and trade schools. Others were sold at HEAVY discounts to RCA employees. Although the number recorded in history books is 5,000 units sold, the common belief (amongst collectors) is that the actual number sold to the public was considerably less.
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| hondacuraworld |
Yes, mine was actually purchased new by the Philco corporation for research purposes, as a model by which they could design their own color television, the TV123 which was released in 1956. I currently own two of them, I've just recently started to disassemble the second set for a similar restoration, while I'm assembling the first set. I have several historically important televisions, including a 1956 RCA CTC-5 that was purchased new by CBC Television in the US, and brought back to Canada to assist in color broadcast signal checks on the CBC transmitter prior to launch of color programming.
On the recently restored set, I just finished wiring up the picture tube socket, and making special brackets for the convergence yoke that had long been lost, out of 1/4" plate steel, cut to size, drilled, and tapped. This stuff is truly a labor of love :)
Here's the second set that I picked up in Niles Ohio back this past summer. It's one step up from firewood at the moment as you can see, but the rarity and historical significance of it makes the process well worth the effort.
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