Life Poster

LiquidOps · December 23, 2005

I've always wanted to try something like this, so I figured, why not

It is a 20x30 poster consisting of 98 images

These are all images that I have taken that signify, in one way or another, a part of my life.

Feel free to check it out. It was loads of fun to make it, and if you're interested, I will list how I made it.

Thanks for looking

Steven

gus · December 23, 2005

G'day steven....please list how you did it. I would like to do it myself & im sure others here would also.

That looks great

DavidTO · December 23, 2005

Cool!

I did it, too. Here's the thread.

LiquidOps · December 23, 2005

DavidTO wrote:

Cool!

I did it, too. Here's the thread.

not all of us are on Macs though...

so here's the link to do it in PS

http://www.waywardpuppy.com/archives/2005/02/iphotoshop.html

Steven

gus · December 23, 2005

DavidTO wrote:

Cool!

I did it, too. Here's the thread.

I had lost that link in the great crash of june '05..tks david

DOH !! I'll try the other version....

LiquidOps · December 23, 2005

Humungus wrote:

I had lost that link in the great crash of june '05..tks david

DOH !! I'll try the other version....

The only thing I found, which I didn't like, is it took the files in order a sequence... I wanted them spaced out... Totally random so to speak.

So I found a bulk file renamer online and renamed all the pictures (added a random # to the beginning of each file name) and then did the process. My pictures came out completely random

Steven

DavidTO · December 23, 2005

LiquidOps wrote:

not all of us are on Macs though...

Pity, huh?

gus · December 23, 2005

LiquidOps wrote:

not all of us are on Macs though...

Steven

We can be thankfull for small mercys

DavidTO · December 23, 2005

Humungus wrote:

We can be thankfull for small mercys

Hey!

(figured it was fitting to use the smiley named after you!

Seriously, I took a look at the PS tute, and that's some good stuff. Glad there's a cross-platform method. I may try it out next time around...

LiquidOps · December 24, 2005

DavidTO wrote:

Hey!

(figured it was fitting to use the smiley named after you!

Seriously, I took a look at the PS tute, and that's some good stuff. Glad there's a cross-platform method. I may try it out next time around...

I agree and way to put this back on topic

w00t

Steven

Skippy · December 24, 2005

Awwwww and looks who's included

LiquidOps wrote:

I've always wanted to try something like this, so I figured, why not

It is a 20x30 poster consisting of 98 images These are all images that I have taken that signify, in one way or another, a part of my life.

Feel free to check it out. It was loads of fun to make it, and if you're interested, I will list how I made it.

Thanks for looking

Steven

Our favourite train passenger I see the guinea pig

you've got some wonderful shots included in this poster, what a great way to record a time in your life, very nicely done Steven........ Skippy (Australia)

LiquidOps · December 24, 2005

Skippy wrote:

Our favourite train passenger I see the guinea pig you've got some wonderful shots included in this poster, what a great way to record a time in your life, very nicely done Steven........ Skippy (Australia)

Thanks Skippy

I couldn't have a complete poster without the Guinea Pig (Maggie)

if this comes out the way I want it, I'm going to do another one next year. I just think it's fun... people can come over and see themselves... kind of like...

"Hey.. I came over to your house and I Found myself" hahaha

okokok... corny... I know...

on another note... what do you think? gloss? matte? luster?

Steven

Stacey L · December 24, 2005

This is great!! Any chance you can guide a PSP'er through it?

quote=LiquidOps]Thanks Skippy

I couldn't have a complete poster without the Guinea Pig (Maggie)

if this comes out the way I want it, I'm going to do another one next year. I just think it's fun... people can come over and see themselves... kind of like...

"Hey.. I came over to your house and I Found myself" hahaha

okokok... corny... I know...

on another note... what do you think? gloss? matte? luster?

Steven[/quote]

LiquidOps · December 27, 2005

Stacey L wrote:

This is great!! Any chance you can guide a PSP'er through it?

Stacey,

I'm not sure I've ever used PSP.... So i'm not too sure on how to guide you through this... sorry

Maybe someone else can chime in here on it.

Thanks for taking a look though

Steven

LiquidOps · December 27, 2005

David,

What kind of paper did you print yours on? Just curious as to what is best for such a thing.

Also... did you frame it? I'd love to see a picture of it up.

Thanks,

Steven

DavidTO · December 27, 2005

LiquidOps wrote:

David,

What kind of paper did you print yours on? Just curious as to what is best for such a thing.

Also... did you frame it? I'd love to see a picture of it up.

Thanks,

Steven

I just had it printed through iPhoto, I think it's Kodak paper.

I don't have a picture of it up, but I could take one...may be a few days, but I'll do it.

LiquidOps · December 27, 2005

DavidTO wrote:

I just had it printed through iPhoto, I think it's Kodak paper.

I don't have a picture of it up, but I could take one...may be a few days, but I'll do it.

I'm gonna do mine through SM, but I'm pondering the luster or the gloss or the matte...

did you frame yours?

DavidTO · December 27, 2005

LiquidOps wrote:

I'm gonna do mine through SM, but I'm pondering the luster or the gloss or the matte...

did you frame yours?

Yes, a simple black metal frame. Mine was not gloss...

colourbox · December 27, 2005

Wow, that sort of produces the "And then I saw my whole life flash before my eyes" effect!

LiquidOps · December 27, 2005

colourbox wrote:

Wow, that sort of produces the "And then I saw my whole life flash before my eyes" effect!

YOU TOO??? wow!!!

Thanks

Steven

DavidTO · December 27, 2005

LiquidOps wrote:

Also... did you frame it? I'd love to see a picture of it up.
Steven

Here you go:

LiquidOps · December 27, 2005

DavidTO wrote:

Here you go:

Thanks David!!!

That looks awesome!!!

i'll probably order my print within the next day or so...

now I need to go find me a 20x30 frame

Steven

Ann McRae · December 28, 2005

Stacey L wrote:

This is great!! Any chance you can guide a PSP'er through it?

Hi Stacey (and others with PSP)

I have had a really quick look at the PS instructions and a look at PSP 9.

I HAVE NOT tried to make this work, am just guessing at this point....

I suspect that the steps will be just like the PS steps. i.e. pick the photos that you want to include and move or copy them all into a new folder. crop them to all have the same aspect ratio.

Open the folder in 'browse'. Select print. This will print a contact sheet of all photos. You can define some of the parameters of the contact sheet such as spacing and number of photos per sheet.

Do so....now this is the step I am unsure of - I think at this point you want to save the contact sheet as a high quality image - it should be 8 1/2 x 11 because that is the size of paper it is expecting. If you can figure out how to save it as a .jpg, then manipulating its final size is easy. Add borders, crop, whatever you need to get it to 2 x 3 aspect ratio.

Gotta go eat curry. I'll check some more on this later.

ann

Stacey L · December 30, 2005

Hey Ann:

Thanks for this! I'll give this a try and post my results this weekend!!!:):

Ann McRae wrote:

Stacey L wrote:

This is great!! Any chance you can guide a PSP'er through it?

Hi Stacey (and others with PSP)

I have had a really quick look at the PS instructions and a look at PSP 9.

I HAVE NOT tried to make this work, am just guessing at this point....

I suspect that the steps will be just like the PS steps. i.e. pick the photos that you want to include and move or copy them all into a new folder. crop them to all have the same aspect ratio.

Open the folder in 'browse'. Select print. This will print a contact sheet of all photos. You can define some of the parameters of the contact sheet such as spacing and number of photos per sheet.

Do so....now this is the step I am unsure of - I think at this point you want to save the contact sheet as a high quality image - it should be 8 1/2 x 11 because that is the size of paper it is expecting. If you can figure out how to save it as a .jpg, then manipulating its final size is easy. Add borders, crop, whatever you need to get it to 2 x 3 aspect ratio.

Gotta go eat curry. I'll check some more on this later.

ann

DavidTO · January 8, 2006

Hey, so I made another. This time I wanted to make a gift for family, so I used a bunch of old scanned photos. I wanted it to be a kind of family history. This thing goes back to my great-great-grandfather.

In my tute (actually it's a tute that I borrowed from Mike Matas as you can see in the tute), I showed how to make this poster with iPhoto and order through iPhoto (that's how Mike did it!).

For this one I ordered it through smugmug, 20x30, lustre finish.

I just got it yesterday, and man does it look sweet. I'm really happy with it.

Andy · January 8, 2006

DavidTO wrote:

Hey, so I made another. This time I wanted to make a gift for family, so I used a bunch of old scanned photos. I wanted it to be a kind of family history. This thing goes back to my great-great-grandfather.

In my tute (actually it's a tute that I borrowed from Mike Matas as you can see in the tute), I showed how to make this poster with iPhoto and order through iPhoto (that's how Mike did it!).

For this one I ordered it through smugmug, 20x30, lustre finish.

I just got it yesterday, and man does it look sweet. I'm really happy with it.

Man, that looks wondeful

aporia · January 8, 2006

Congrats on a great looking project completion.

Once I clear some time after the beginning of the semester crunch, I'm looking forward to putting one of these together myself.

Cincojoe · April 23, 2006

Quick question everyone. Once I open the PDF in Photoshop, it's image size is 8.265 x 10.815 inches? Is this correct? Does the printer upsize it to 20x30?

DavidTO · April 23, 2006

Cincojoe wrote:

Quick question everyone. Once I open the PDF in Photoshop, it's image size is 8.265 x 10.815 inches? Is this correct? Does the printer upsize it to 20x30?

What's the dpi of the file?

Cincojoe · April 23, 2006

i set it to 200....i did notice that iPhoto6 wants a paper size. Should I put 8x10?

DavidTO · April 23, 2006

Cincojoe wrote:

i set it to 200....i did notice that iPhoto6 wants a paper size. Should I put 8x10?

It sounds like you're not really following the steps of the tutorial. It says that you need to make a custom paper size that's 20x30. Read through the steps and make sure that you're clear. I think you'll find that it works perfect if you do that.

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