1plus2
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Hi guys n gals i have been toying with the idea of covering my whole house in posters either canvas or kraft paper or silk fabrics and the normal paper posters etc etc so i have been buying so many items but 1 thing that i cannot get my head round is i was trying to get a poster done for a wall size approx 63 inches wide 70 inches long but i am having no luck in getting what i was looking for.
I then thought to paint the wall the background colour of the poster then just get a sign printer to knock up the wording or whatever i was going to do but i thought a canvas or poster might still be what i wanted so i persevered with that and tried to get what i was told i needed.
This is where i am totally lost and way out my league even tho i have read numerous ways of trying to achieve what i was wanting as i said above was looking for to fill the wall size with an old lp cover of the Sex Pisols Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols. So i started doing some images ending up with the idea of 4 canvases or laminated posters approx 80cm square to fill the required wall size.
This is when i got stopped in my tracks with the quality of the image for printing so i tried resizing the images still no good as the dpi is still what it is in the resizing of the image and was no good then i read something about resampling the image to get the 300 dpi that was needed to get a decent print but when i did that and sent it away to the guy to print off he said the original image still has only 72 dpi or 96 dpi (can't remember exactly) so still no joy so after trying various ways i am still getting nowhere fast and practically about to give up the frustrating thing for me is the guy actually said try resampling the image which i did using irfan view i did this to 300 dpi but he said about the original image still having the same amount of dpi in it even when i resampled the image.
So i am basically doing this all wrong or i am doing something stupid and missing something completely trying to do what i am doing. So i thought i would download a image which was already 300 dpi from some site and sent it to the guy he said this was probably the worse one i have sent him quality wise ? so i ust about gave up after being told that but then i said nope i am going to at least try and find out why or what i was doing wrong just for my own sanity :icon_confused:
I will attach some images of what i was looking to get done if that helps anyone to look at and tell me wtf i am missing or doing wrong.
I then thought to paint the wall the background colour of the poster then just get a sign printer to knock up the wording or whatever i was going to do but i thought a canvas or poster might still be what i wanted so i persevered with that and tried to get what i was told i needed.
This is where i am totally lost and way out my league even tho i have read numerous ways of trying to achieve what i was wanting as i said above was looking for to fill the wall size with an old lp cover of the Sex Pisols Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols. So i started doing some images ending up with the idea of 4 canvases or laminated posters approx 80cm square to fill the required wall size.
This is when i got stopped in my tracks with the quality of the image for printing so i tried resizing the images still no good as the dpi is still what it is in the resizing of the image and was no good then i read something about resampling the image to get the 300 dpi that was needed to get a decent print but when i did that and sent it away to the guy to print off he said the original image still has only 72 dpi or 96 dpi (can't remember exactly) so still no joy so after trying various ways i am still getting nowhere fast and practically about to give up the frustrating thing for me is the guy actually said try resampling the image which i did using irfan view i did this to 300 dpi but he said about the original image still having the same amount of dpi in it even when i resampled the image.
So i am basically doing this all wrong or i am doing something stupid and missing something completely trying to do what i am doing. So i thought i would download a image which was already 300 dpi from some site and sent it to the guy he said this was probably the worse one i have sent him quality wise ? so i ust about gave up after being told that but then i said nope i am going to at least try and find out why or what i was doing wrong just for my own sanity :icon_confused:
I will attach some images of what i was looking to get done if that helps anyone to look at and tell me wtf i am missing or doing wrong.