How to make a poster w/ iPhoto

[dkapp]

A great link I ran across.

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

Just thought I'd share.

Dave

[gus]

That looks cool dave :thumb

[DavidTO]

Cool!

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

[dkapp]

That looks cool dave :thumb

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.

Dave

[dkapp]

Cool!

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

Awesome :thumb

Let me know how they turn out :deal

Dave

[Andy]

Awesome :thumb

Let me know how they turn out :deal

Dave

cool link! :thumb

[DavidTO]

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.

[DavidTO]

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...

http://davidrosenthal.smugmug.com/photos/15495134-M.jpg

[dkapp]

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

[DavidTO]

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.

[dkapp]

coulda done.

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

Thanks,
Dave

[DavidTO]

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

Thanks,
Dave

I ended up with a 10meg file, so I just used iPhoto.

[DavidTO]

Ordered mine yesterday, express shipping. It was waiting for me when I got to work this morning.

Awesome. I love it.

[LiquidOps]

anyway of doing this for us "non MAC" users?

some of us just can't afford it yet :dunno

[dkapp]

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?

Dave

[dkapp]

anyway of doing this for us "non MAC" users?

some of us just can't afford it yet :dunno

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.

Dave

[DavidTO]

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!

[DavidTO]

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.

[DavidTO]

Update:

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

My son liked his (http://davidrosenthal.smugmug.com/gallery/114293/1/15801799), too.

[Dee]

Update:

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

My son liked his (http://davidrosenthal.smugmug.com/gallery/114293/1/15801799), 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...
:)

[dkapp]

Update:

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

My son liked his (http://davidrosenthal.smugmug.com/gallery/114293/1/15801799), 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.

Dave

[DavidTO]

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:

http://davidrosenthal.smugmug.com/photos/15801799-L.jpg

[Dee]

OK, we'll do it this way:

http://davidrosenthal.smugmug.com/photos/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.

[DavidTO]

Update:

The tutorial for making an iPhoto poster is here. (http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1080728)

Coming soon: the Photoshop only version of this tutorial!