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Re: [Digital BW] making mega-prints

2006-03-01 by Steve Gledhill

I tried it a few months ago with 4 A3+ tiles just to see what my work 
looked like bigger before I shelled out for a bigger printer.  It's a 
devil to get such a precise cut that they fit together perfectly.  But 
even when cut perfectly you can't hide the joins when taped from behind 
or stuck down on a large sheet.  If you want it to look unjoined - it 
won't.  So, my suggestion is that your son's idea is right - if you must 
do it then make a feature of the window panes.
Steve Gledhill ----- http://www.virtuallygrey.co.uk/

Matti Koskinen wrote:

> hi,
>
> just wondering if anybody has made big prints by tiling smaller prints?
>
> My son had an idea: he took one of my pictures, in elements split the
> picture to 4 and inverted two of them. I then printed the four
> bw-pictures in A4 size, and he mounted the prints in cardboard leaving
> one inch gap between the pictures. The result looks quite nice and 
> it's big.
>
> Tiling super-B size prints makes it possible to create even larger
> image. How about taping the prints without the gap? Would the seam be
> too visible? Any tips?
>
> thanks
>
> -matti
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------


		
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