Need help from you heritage experts - Page 2

*Lynnie* · 07-15-2008, 01:49 AM

Costco prints out poster size pictures if you have one with good resolution. See if you can find either a few heritage pictures with good resolution OR have someone go to a local photographer who specializes in that kind of pic and see if they will take one and give you permission to use it. Then get it blown up and scrap a real page on there...

Alternatively, if you have a 12x12 printer, print out some pics in sepia toned that resemble heritage shots.

kaybutler@mweb. · 07-16-2008, 10:22 PM

It is too early in the morning for me to make any meaningful contribution..but I'm cheering you on too and looking forward to the end result !! Good luck !!!

**Meryl** · 07-16-2008, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by kaybutler@mweb.

It is too early in the morning for me to make any meaningful contribution..but I'm cheering you on too and looking forward to the end result !! Good luck !!!

Goodness... not often I see you up and about at this time of morning Kay!

Teriffic Thursday to you!

dathamary · 07-18-2008, 11:46 PM

Thank you all for the wonderful ideas and positive support. I finished the scrapbook project tonight!! Whew! I tried to post pictures during the planning phases to get CC, but the galleries were not working properly. I decided to go way simple. I found a cute silhouette picture of a grandmother cooking. With the help of PSP, I changed the soup into a pie, spliced in a little girl from another picture, and made it into an outline. Then I copied it onto an overhead transparency and blew it up using a projector. Traced that onto black posterboard and cut it out to make a silhouette picture. Then we added wooden letters at the top and a few embellishments, and VIOLA! You kind of have to change the way you think about scrapbooking for this kind of project. It was fun though (just don't ask my husband. He may disagree).

I am going to take some pictures tomorrow and try to post them if the gallery is cooperating. You ladies are WONDERFUL! Thanks so much!

**Meryl** · 07-18-2008, 11:49 PM

Thanks so much for the update! Sounds fantastic - well done on your creativity!!! I just love how it sounds. really look forward to the pictures! (and a page???)

dathamary · 07-19-2008, 08:45 PM

Here is my finished product http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com...y.php?cat=6159
Please check it out and tell me what you think (but only if you like it, because it's too late to change it LOL). I am going to try posting some more pictures to see if I can get help with the jars to help them be more easily identifiable.

**Meryl** · 07-20-2008, 08:36 AM

Wow, wow, wow - you are a STAR!!! what a really great job you have done - take a very proud bow!

dathamary · 07-26-2008, 12:50 AM

Just an update. The parade was yesterday, and it was AWESOME! Our float looked even more lovely rolling along the "vard." We won the Children's Choice award. The lady who presented the awards said that is the best one to win because parades are really all about the children, right? I agree. It was sure fun watching it with mine.

dathamary · 07-26-2008, 12:56 AM

Hey Hoozie, guess what? Picasa can do the same thing as that rasterbator program in just a few clicks! (Just wish I had discovered it about a week ago!) You just select your picture, go to CREATE and choose "make a poster." Then you choose what size you want your poster and what size your paper is, and the program splits it into pieces so you can print it on multiple sheets and piece it together. It even has an option to overlap tiles so it is easier to put together. I used that feature to print a poster-size version of one of the parade pictures to hang in the church building. I LOVE PICASA!!

hoozieg · 07-27-2008, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by dathamary

Hey Hoozie, guess what? Picasa can do the same thing as that rasterbator program in just a few clicks! (Just wish I had discovered it about a week ago!) You just select your picture, go to CREATE and choose "make a poster." Then you choose what size you want your poster and what size your paper is, and the program splits it into pieces so you can print it on multiple sheets and piece it together. It even has an option to overlap tiles so it is easier to put together. I used that feature to print a poster-size version of one of the parade pictures to hang in the church building. I LOVE PICASA!!

I didn't Know that! I'll have to check it out! Thanks!

Nanba sempai · 10-18-2011, 02:34 AM

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Originally Posted by hoozieg

There's a program called Rasterbater (I know, it sounds bad) that will take your photo and print it on however many sheets you need. I think you can choose the size of paper. It turns the pixels round and spaces them farther apart, but from far away it looks fantastic.

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

This one's six by six 8.5 x 11 sheets. Then you tape them together on the back. You can set the pixelation (that may not be what they call it), to a high or low level depending on how you want it to look. Einstein is set with pixels close together...the second one is far apart.

Some people choose to cut off the white borders (above), others leave them (below).

This might be just what you need?!? There's a huge gallery - you can check out other images.

Oh and it's free!

Good luck!

I’ve used this program before too. But I really don’t like this technique. Rasterbator makes posters with big dots. Now I use this poster creation software to print big images. It doesn’t change the input image and print it with high quality.