Rocold Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Where did you guys get your Hak.5 Posters printed out at? My brother's birthday is coming up and He was a hugh Zelda fan. I found the overworld map from the original NES Zelda and thought that I would get it printed out as a poster for him. This is almost like the image I found but the one I have has all the swords and coins and whatnot. http://www.zelda-infinite.com/games/zelda1/overworld.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Pretty much any print shop will be able to do this for you. Ask for a sample section printed at the desired size, and on a selection of paper types and compare the results/costs from several stores. If your feeling brave you can play a few stores off of each other for a price reduction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocold Posted April 8, 2006 Author Share Posted April 8, 2006 I don't know of any print shops in my area. What are the better known print shops. Also my question was where did Hak.5 get there poster printed from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Google Local... beyond that email darren... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Fedex Kinkos plotted it. $0.75 / sq. ft. for black and white (our old poster) or $3 / sq. ft. for color (our new poster)... It gets expensive doing full color that size but I think it was worth it for the set. Cafepress will also do 'em, but not as big and for way too much money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Just took a look at the image. Normally I'd freak out about it not being 300 DPI for your print size, but in this specific case I think the pixelation will actually add some retro flavor to it and it should look great at a distance. The hak5 poster was done in photoshop at 3'x5' at 300dpi then saved as a PDF which the copy shops like. Vector is your friend when blowing up images like that. I've always wanted to find some way to save the google maps satelite images for my city to one huge 3'x5' 300dpi image to have printed but that would require google api hacking that I unfortunately dont have time for :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 I've always wanted to find some way to save the google maps satelite images for my city to one huge 3'x5' 300dpi image to have printed but that would require google api hacking that I unfortunately dont have time for :( I you use NASAs World Wind you can pull the images from the cache in DDS format. And using the Nvidia DDS photoshop plugin you can stitch them together to create a hires panorama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 I've always wanted to find some way to save the google maps satelite images for my city to one huge 3'x5' 300dpi image to have printed but that would require google api hacking that I unfortunately dont have time for :( I you use NASAs World Wind you can pull the images from the cache in DDS format. And using the Nvidia DDS photoshop plugin you can stitch them together to create a hires panorama. oooooooooooooooooo :P that sounds like fun :P :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 yes yes, it's been on the list of things to research for a great hak5 segment. poster of your city for under $15.. Mmmm. Anyone want to lend a hand on this hack for some mad props? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 I wouldn't mind helping out with something like this, only problem is i'm 6000 miles away. You could use something like panotools to slightly automate the process, but you'd still have to fix a few bits by hand to make it perfect. Biggest panorama i've done was made from 50 seperate images, loads of automation and about 2 weeks of photoshoping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 I wouldn't mind helping out with something like this, only problem is i'm 6000 miles away. You could use something like panotools to slightly automate the process, but you'd still have to fix a few bits by hand to make it perfect. Biggest panorama i've done was made from 50 seperate images, loads of automation and about 2 weeks of photoshoping. i would love to like make a panoramic poster of the sky with all the planets in...would take ages tho! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Its not to hard to do, you just have to know about non-Euclidean geometry and have a bit of time, What were you thinking of doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 im actually not too sure...im just getting in to CCD imageing n so on with telescopes because im helping doing all the IT work down at my local observitory wich is really cool :P n i get 2 design n set up networks n so on :D and hopefully im going to get to take some pretty cool CCD images. ill post some here if they come out good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Sounds good, what cameras are you using? All my digital kit is kinda cheap (Nikon D70 is the best i have :-( ) and get noise issues with the CCD's at long exposures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Sounds good, what cameras are you using? All my digital kit is kinda cheap (Nikon D70 is the best i have :-( ) and get noise issues with the CCD's at long exposures. not too sure yet. the observitory has CCD equipment which i havent used yet. dave the man im helping (did my school work experience with him :)) has a Canon EOS something which is cool :D ive got a sony dsc-p73 4mp thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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