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Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
 
I recently needed to print a large picture for a semi truck. It was an oval pic of a wolf standing on a ledge, in the moonlight, howling at the moon. In the face of the moon was an image of an Indian. I use PC's and just couldn't get my puter to send the file as it was just under 500 megs. It was this big because I had blew the pic up to 22.5 wide and about 32 long.

After struggling, I went into photoShop, mask off the top half of the pic, saved it then inversed it and saved the bottom half. I then imported both fiels into Corel, matched them point to point and put a cut line around it. I then selected the top half and the cut line and sent it to print. When it was done it goes back to the exact same spot that it started at. I then selected the bottom half and the cut line and sent it again to print. So it cut twice but Viola! A beautiful pic with no seam.
 


Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
 
Laura,

At that size, what DPI was your image set at?

Just a suggestion....try saving the image at between 108 and 125 dpi (in TIF or BMP format). Do a test print and compare the image to the one you just printed. I'll bet you won't find much difference in appearance and a much smaller file size.
 


Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
 
I had it set at 600 dpi. I'll try lowering the dpi and printing just a little square to see if what you say is true.

I have another one that I have to do. Customer created a nice little sun burst for their tanning salon. He did it in some little program but now I have to blow it up to 84" to put on their sign.
 


Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
 
Here are some sites you may find helpful.....

http://www.scantips.com/basics1e.html
http://www.wolfenet.com/~workshop/scan-print.html
http://www.nilbs.com/techbabl/dpi_ultim.htm
http://nilbs.com/techbabl/dpi_woes.htm
http://www.dtss.com.au/White%20Papers/General/Resolution.html
http://www.ulead.com/new/scanner.htm
http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/guide/guid_exp.html
http://www.academic.uidaho.edu/cti/scanning/
 




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