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RACER X
10-10-2012, 04:10 PM
hey photo heads, who can i send a pic to get made into poster sized, decent quality paper and such?

24x36 or maybe a little bigger
defector
10-10-2012, 04:30 PM
hey photo heads, who can i send a pic to get made into poster sized, decent quality paper and such?

24x36 or maybe a little bigger
fathead.com :lol:
Krabill
10-10-2012, 04:47 PM
Honestly, I've been getting large prints from walmart.com that look pretty good. Got a couple banners made at FedEx.com that came out pretty good, too.
Archren
10-10-2012, 04:49 PM
If you lived in Austin, I'd recommend Holland or Precision. Otherwise... google is your friend. Look up poster prints. Keep in mind the resolution of the original image will affect how large you can print the photo and still have it look good (upsampling = loss of sharpness and/or pixelation).
RACER X
10-10-2012, 04:54 PM
thanks i wanna get this blown up for the garage

http://www.twowheelfix.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9498&stc=1&d=1349902547


24x36

local guy quoted my $75 for his high quality prints, too rich for my garage, lol
Archren
10-10-2012, 04:59 PM
Is that the original resolution or did you resize to post it here? If it's the former, I wouldn't recommend getting it printed that large.

If the original resolution is larger, then you're probably ok.. and $75 is actually fairly reasonable/average for that size of a print.
Krabill
10-10-2012, 05:00 PM
All of the large prints I have hanging up in my store were done through walmart.com. I put them in frames and they look great. Cheap, too :) Would be great for a garage poster.

http://i46.tinypic.com/2e1c49d.jpg
RACER X
10-10-2012, 05:03 PM
dats what i'm talkin about

and yes it may be shrunk for the site, but i only got what i was forwarded

i could prob. email the photog, as it's a NASA pic

and get the orig file
Archren
10-10-2012, 05:03 PM
There you go. They don't need to be fine art/photo quality poster prints if it's for your garage... so I'd say follow Krabill's lead. :D
RACER X
10-10-2012, 05:11 PM
well i emailed the photog to see if i can get the orig. file

dang it was easy to find her w/ just her name, lol
Archren
10-10-2012, 05:13 PM
Ohhh, you didn't take that picture? If it was a pro photographer, good luck getting her to just give you the file without charging you for licensing. :lol:
RACER X
10-10-2012, 05:17 PM
its a NASA pic

so we'll see

hope she doesn't sue me..
RACER X
10-10-2012, 05:23 PM
woo hoo , she emailed me back

she'll be back in teh office on mon. remind her and she'll send it then.

:)
Archren
10-10-2012, 05:24 PM
Ohh ok, right on. NASA is usually pretty cool about that.
azoomm
10-10-2012, 05:33 PM
Staples is pretty cheap, and if you want to go super cheap you can get a black and white engineering print from them for $5.

:)
Cutty72
10-12-2012, 10:21 AM
Vista print
Smittie61984
10-15-2012, 01:35 AM
Ohhh, you didn't take that picture? If it was a pro photographer, good luck getting her to just give you the file without charging you for licensing. :lol:

Haha, if he got that close, he'd be a fireball shortly after he took that.

NASA will take any publicity it can get. Their budget gets slashed daily and they'll be lucky to be able to operate a gumball machine by the end of it. Bug them enough and they'd probably send engineers out there to frame it for you.
RACER X
10-15-2012, 06:28 AM
H Bug them enough and they'd probably send engineers out there to frame it for you.

w/ my history of using gov't resources, that sounds like a plan!.

:rockwoot:
RACER X
10-16-2012, 10:11 AM
Nasa lady sent me these links

Houston shot - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_jsc_photo/8047795078/sizes/l/in/set-72157631676953905/

All the pictures I took - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_jsc_photo/sets/72157631676953905/
Archren
10-16-2012, 11:49 AM
Ah ok, creative commons license. Cool beans. That original size should work - I personally would prefer a tiff or otherwise uncompressed file format, but it should be ok.
RACER X
10-16-2012, 12:46 PM
she said something about a NEF file.

whats that? do i want to use that?

can't see the flikr stuff here at work
Apoc
10-16-2012, 12:48 PM
All of the large prints I have hanging up in my store were done through walmart.com. I put them in frames and they look great. Cheap, too :) Would be great for a garage poster.

http://i46.tinypic.com/2e1c49d.jpg

Off topic, but I started Vaping recently. What a beautiful thing. All of the wonderful effects of Nicotine with none of the bad stuff. Lets me save my lungs for the much more magical Marijauna plant. Which is also good vaped, but better in a fat joint.
Krabill
10-16-2012, 01:01 PM
Off topic, but I started Vaping recently. What a beautiful thing. All of the wonderful effects of Nicotine with none of the bad stuff. Lets me save my lungs for the much more magical Marijauna plant. Which is also good vaped, but better in a fat joint.

Yup. It completely changed my life and that's why I opened the store. To help others get away from those nasty cigarettes.

I'll tell you my favorite part is when someone comes back in the store for the second time. Their usual reaction to coming in the store for the first time is skepticism and caution. They aren't sure if it's going to work. They don't know if they trust it. When they come in for their second visit it is after they've been using it for a few days and they are so happy it actually works they just go on and on about how much they like it and you can't help but smile :)
Archren
10-16-2012, 01:32 PM
she said something about a NEF file.

whats that? do i want to use that?

can't see the flikr stuff here at work

NEF is simply the Nikon camera raw format. In order to print from it, you would simply need to open it in Photoshop as a PSD and print from that.

Now, if you send it off to be printed, they may require it to be in a different format. Again, simple to open in photoshop and convert to JPEG or TIFF or PDF or whatever they want to print from.
Archren
10-16-2012, 01:36 PM
Yup. It completely changed my life and that's why I opened the store. To help others get away from those nasty cigarettes.

I'll tell you my favorite part is when someone comes back in the store for the second time. Their usual reaction to coming in the store for the first time is skepticism and caution. They aren't sure if it's going to work. They don't know if they trust it. When they come in for their second visit it is after they've been using it for a few days and they are so happy it actually works they just go on and on about how much they like it and you can't help but smile :)

I switched to Blu cigs about 4 months ago.. haven't even wanted a real cigarette the entire time. That, and the amount that I "smoke" now (how frequently I take smoke breaks) is significantly reduced. Literally, I maybe do it 3-5 times a week, basically if I'm in a social situation like at an outside patio at a restaurant or at school (since a lot of my classmates tend to be both veterans and smokers :lol:). Compared to the pack a day habit I had before switching... I haven't put the numbers together yet, but I estimate I have saved about $600 over these past few months.
Krabill
10-16-2012, 04:06 PM
If you bump up a step to a little better e-cig like an Ego, the cost of maintaining it (replacement cartomizers and e-liquid) is quite a bit less than buying Blu pre-filled cartos, fyi.

Shameless plug - www.designatedvaping.com
Archren
10-16-2012, 04:26 PM
If you bump up a step to a little better e-cig like an Ego, the cost of maintaining it (replacement cartomizers and e-liquid) is quite a bit less than buying Blu pre-filled cartos, fyi.

Shameless plug - www.designatedvaping.com (http://www.designatedvaping.com)

I have been wanting to go that route, since there is a similar shop here in Rounc Rock I've been told about. Maybe once I'm done moving, I'll have some disposable income to consider the switch.