How to make a poster w/ iPhoto

dkappdkapp Registered Users Posts: 985 Major grins
edited December 31, 2005 in Finishing School
A great link I ran across.

http://www.mikematas.com/blog/2005/01/how-to-make-life-poster.html

Just thought I'd share.

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2005
    That looks cool dave thumb.gif
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2005
    Cool!

    Gonna make one for my daughter and another for my son!
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  • dkappdkapp Registered Users Posts: 985 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    That looks cool dave thumb.gif

    I may give it a try. I will probably just get it printed from smugmug since I trust their print quality.

    I'll post back if I decide to do it.

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  • dkappdkapp Registered Users Posts: 985 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2005
    DavidTO wrote:
    Cool!

    Gonna make one for my daughter and another for my son!

    Awesome thumb.gif

    Let me know how they turn out deal.gif

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2005
    dkapp wrote:
    Awesome thumb.gif

    Let me know how they turn out deal.gif

    Dave

    cool link! thumb.gif
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2005
    So I'm doing this...

    And I'm doing it on my 1ghz pbook, G5's busy burning my son's epic 2-DVD set.

    Anyway, rasterizing the PDF takes FOREVER!

    Just a heads up.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2005
    OK, here's mine.

    It ended up with a larger margin on the bottom than the top, but I figure I can just trim it a touch. I'm going to get it mounted on foamcore, so I'll have them trim it when they do that. If anyone can figure out what I may have done wrong to get the large lower margin, let me know.

    Also, I probably could have done a better job of randomizing the images, but oh well...

    15495134-M.jpg
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  • dkappdkapp Registered Users Posts: 985 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2005
    That looks great! I'm not sure what happened to the lower section to give the extra room, but you could bring the file into PS & increase the canvas size on the top & crop to center the whole thing. This way you can find a frame to fit it easier.

    Dave
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2005
    dkapp wrote:
    That looks great! I'm not sure what happened to the lower section to give the extra room, but you could bring the file into PS & increase the canvas size on the top & crop to center the whole thing. This way you can find a frame to fit it easier.

    Dave

    coulda done.
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  • dkappdkapp Registered Users Posts: 985 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2005
    DavidTO wrote:
    coulda done.

    Did you order the print through iPhoto, or Smugmug/ezprints?

    Thanks,
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2005
    dkapp wrote:
    Did you order the print through iPhoto, or Smugmug/ezprints?

    Thanks,
    Dave

    I ended up with a 10meg file, so I just used iPhoto.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2005
    Ordered mine yesterday, express shipping. It was waiting for me when I got to work this morning.

    Awesome. I love it.
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  • LiquidOpsLiquidOps Registered Users Posts: 835 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2005
    anyway of doing this for us "non MAC" users?

    some of us just can't afford it yet ne_nau.gif
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  • dkappdkapp Registered Users Posts: 985 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2005
    DavidTO wrote:
    Ordered mine yesterday, express shipping. It was waiting for me when I got to work this morning.

    Awesome. I love it.

    That was super fast! How do you rate the print quality to those from EZPrints?

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  • dkappdkapp Registered Users Posts: 985 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2005
    LiquidOps wrote:
    anyway of doing this for us "non MAC" users?

    some of us just can't afford it yet ne_nau.gif

    I'm sure you can do this in Photoshop with the "Picture Package" option under File->Automate. It will just take a LOT longer to do. You will need to create a new template once in Picture Package for a 20x30, or whatever size you want to print. Then add the pictures, one by one.

    I do this with my business cards. Not very efficient, but it does the job nicely.

    I'm not sure if Elements has this feature.

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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2005
    dkapp wrote:
    That was super fast! How do you rate the print quality to those from EZPrints?

    Dave

    I've been busy at work, so I haven't had time to look enough to file a complete report but:

    looks great.

    I think it's a touch denser than I'm used to with smugmug.

    It's a different format, so it takes different eyes to compare it.

    I'll look closer later today. But overall I'm very pleased with the quality.

    And FAST!
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2005
    dkapp wrote:
    That looks great! I'm not sure what happened to the lower section to give the extra room, but you could bring the file into PS & increase the canvas size on the top & crop to center the whole thing. This way you can find a frame to fit it easier.

    Dave

    Actually, when you're in PS, right before you save as TIFF, you can cmd-click on the layer, and nudge the image south with the move tool. Centered top to bottom in a few clicks.

    Also, the file size is 69mb. Whatever iPhoto uploads, JPEG, I assume, was 10mb.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2005
    Update:

    My daughter was, quite literally, speechless. I mean it. Her jaw dropped. It was very cool.

    My son liked his, too.
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2005
    Password needed?
    DavidTO wrote:
    Update:

    My daughter was, quite literally, speechless. I mean it. Her jaw dropped. It was very cool.

    My son liked his, too.

    You guys have been having so much fun with this, but when I clicked on the link to your son's poster I was asked for a password...
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  • dkappdkapp Registered Users Posts: 985 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2005
    DavidTO wrote:
    Update:

    My daughter was, quite literally, speechless. I mean it. Her jaw dropped. It was very cool.

    My son liked his, too.

    Thats awesome! I'm glad they were a hit. I bet these were awesome printed at 20x30.

    I tried to click the link for your sons poster, but was asked for a password.

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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2005
    dkapp wrote:
    Thats awesome! I'm glad they were a hit. I bet these were awesome printed at 20x30.

    I tried to click the link for your sons poster, but was asked for a password.

    Dave

    OK, we'll do it this way:

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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2005
    Thanks for posting the photo
    DavidTO wrote:
    OK, we'll do it this way:

    15801799-L.jpg

    Looks like you had a lot of fun with this! Glad the children enjoyed their individual posters too.

    Good idea for a grandparent gift too.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2005
    Update:

    The tutorial for making an iPhoto poster is here.

    Coming soon: the Photoshop only version of this tutorial!
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