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My girlfriend wants to make a real wallpaper (not the computer one) of one of my M8 pictures. The wall is 5.00 x 2.20

 

Could somebody please share some experiences? Or some good URL:s on the subject. Maybe some expert- company who can help us?

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Håkan,

 

Taking into account that you will loose quality, I'd go to one of the fast print services in your town. Here in Holland I saw quite good results in a Greek restaurant. He'd just taken his photo, went to Multicopy (the print shop) and asked them to blow it up and print it so it would fit back again a s one giant photo.

 

You will loose quality: whatever the pixels, wall size is BIG and will show pixels. And of course using wall paper means the colors probably be less than what you'd get using real photo paper :D

 

Marco

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Håkan,

 

Taking into account that you will loose quality, I'd go to one of the fast print services in your town. Here in Holland I saw quite good results in a Greek restaurant. He'd just taken his photo, went to Multicopy (the print shop) and asked them to blow it up and print it so it would fit back again a s one giant photo.

 

You will loose quality: whatever the pixels, wall size is BIG and will show pixels. And of course using wall paper means the colors probably be less than what you'd get using real photo paper :D

 

Marco

 

Sorry for late reply. I was sceptic, but my girlfriend went ahead and ordered it.

 

the wallpaper is 5.15 x 2,35 cm. Shot with Leica M8, Summicron 35/2 ASPH.

 

I was blown away with the quality. I have no idea what kind of Photoshop magic is applied to it? Can somebody educate me? or is it simply enlarged?

 

BTW the picture is taken on a wall at Samos, Greece.

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Now that's nice, to see that it works. :D

 

I think they use some kind of extrapolation trick. There are several software tools that do that perfectly. I'm sure though, that up close you will have lost detail. But from a normal viewing point it will be 100%. We often forget that we look at small photos up close and wall size from a distance.

 

Nice photo you used BTW, very scenic.

 

Marco

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first, congratulations as your girlfriend has done it!

 

there are software optons to do this the best are two, one free but frozen and one costly but extraordinary:

 

Rastebator is free and available for windows or geeks used to recompile programs and all seems frozen in 2005.It has also an online verson, but only for 1 Mbytes files.

 

 

OnetoOne Genuine Fractals is priced 150$ for a standalone version or PS plugin or 300 for a LR or Aperture Plugin. But you can try for 30 days, so you can use one time and judge if it's worth so much.

 

The fractal approach can produce without problems a wallpaper image from a M8 file.

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Alien Skin BlowUp deserves a mention. Search all forums because there are some stunning examples of huge enlargements made with this plug-in. From the top of my head, I think it was David Adamson (definitely David, not sure about the surname) was a revered exponent.

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