help! where can i find extra large movie stills?
Here’s a question we’re hoping all you movie buffs can help with. Got any suggestions for Ellie?
Do you know where I can get oversized photorealistic still prints of movie scenes? I’m thinking of something for behind the sofa in the media room and I don’t want any framed advertising posters. While someplace with a pre-existing catalogue would be nice, a print shop that could produce any scene I choose would be amazing. — Ellie
P.S. Wouldn’t the above still from La Dolce Vita be dreamy as wall-sized mural? But where could you ever find a high res image large enough to produce?
January 24th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Have you ever heard of the Rasterbator? Sounds dirty, right? But it’s a site/program that will blow your chosen picture up to enormous size, then makes it into a PDF that you can print on 8.5×11″ paper. You put it together like a giant puzzle. Might work! I’ve been wanting to do one of these forever, but I can’t decide which picture to do.
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
January 24th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Well, the rasterbator can fix some problems of blowing up a medium quality image but it doesn’t necessarily create the type of image one would want either. It uses dots- and you can print with a very small dot size- but then you get some show of the jaggies of using a low res image any way.
but- if you have a high quality image you want to blow up it is a decent option. another one would be block poster which also blows up an image and puts in into a pdf- however it doesn’t change it into dots.
http://www.blockposters.com/
January 25th, 2008 at 8:42 am
I’ve used the Rasterbator — it’s great.
You can see my Rasterbation experiment (and yes, that *does* sound dirty) here:
http://morewaystowastetime.blogspot.com/2007/05/cool-tool-rasterbator.html
All the best,
Leah
January 25th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Thanks so much for the responses everyone. I used the rasterbator in my office on a shot of big buddha, it was nice, but this time I was looking to have one large (like a professional print shop) high quality image.
I think I saw something similar in Elle Decor once… but who knows.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
http://www.reelclassics.com/Buy/photos.htm
That’s a list with links to lots of places you can buy photos/stills. I’d assume you’ll have to take a smaller image to a lab and have them blow it up, since I can’t think of anyplace that sells oversize prints such as you’re looking for.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:15 am
yes, it was in elle decor in the may 07. will kopelman had a blown up still from 2001: a space odyssey. he said he tore the image from a book and sent it to a lab to have digitally enlarged to 10 ft. wide. then he had it affixed to a living room wall by a wallpaper expert. it looked amazing!
January 29th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Wow, thanks for the reference, amazing; glad I wasnt losing my mind!
February 4th, 2008 at 3:01 am
Couldn’t you get a print shop to print any image onto canvas? I think loads of places do it now.