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Making large prints

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Making large prints RobertC 08 Apr 00:40
  Making large prints rich2005 08 Apr 12:32
   Making large prints RobertC 08 Apr 19:11
  Making large prints Alexandre Prokoudine 10 Apr 12:35
RobertC
2017-04-08 00:40:21 UTC (about 7 years ago)
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Making large prints

Hello Folks, Downloaded this program , and I think it is an excellent program. Never done much editing before, so im kinda lost. Been reading through the manuals and cannot seem to find how to make large prints. Im wanting to make a print that is bigger than my printer can make. knowing that , i know there is a way to print a large print and then piece it together. Im wanting to make a print that is the same size as my canvas that im painting on. I like to paint from photos, and i like my photos to be the same size as my canvas My canvas that im painting on is 20 by 16, so I like for my photos that i paint from to be the same size. My printer of course is not a 24 inch printer, it is just a all in one Hp printer. And can only print *8.5 by 11.5. I know that you can print several pieces of a photo and then piece it together as one photo with tape or glue. So i will print several different images of a photo and then piece it together as one , to paint from..

Can someone help a fellow out? Thx
RobertC

rich2005
2017-04-08 12:32:54 UTC (about 7 years ago)

Making large prints

Hello Folks, Downloaded this program , and I think it is an excellent program.
Never done much editing before, so im kinda lost. Been reading through the manuals and cannot seem to find how to make large prints.
Im wanting to make a print that is bigger than my printer can make. knowing that , i know there is a way to print a large print and then piece it together.
Im wanting to make a print that is the same size as my canvas that im painting on.
I like to paint from photos, and i like my photos to be the same size as my canvas
My canvas that im painting on is 20 by 16, so I like for my photos that i paint from to be the same size. My printer of course is not a 24 inch printer, it is just a all in one Hp printer. And can only print *8.5 by 11.5. I know that you can print several pieces of a photo and then piece it together as one photo with tape or glue. So i will print several different images of a photo and then piece it together as one , to paint from..

Can someone help a fellow out? Thx
RobertC

There are a few ways you can do this. Your preferred size 16"x20" fits in quite well with US letter 8.5"x11" - gives 4 images with some margins.

Make a new canvas 16"x20" @ 100 ppi This is assuming that you do not need high quality for your crib sheet.

Use Image -> Guides -> New Guide (by percent) one Vertical 50% and repeat for one horizontal at 50%

That should get something like this without the gray patch which is equivalent to a sheet of US Paper. screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/yThs1Hg.jpg

Example gimp .xcf attached Using 20x16?You will need to rotate it 90 deg.

Open your photo as a new layer: File -> Open As Layers

Scale it up or down to fit: Layer -> Scale Layer screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/sJhL0su.jpg

Once happy with the scaling use: Image -> Transform -> Guillotine This creates 4 new images cut along the guides. screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/JIHTIqh.jpg

Printing in Windows from Gimp is often fraught with problems. This was linux which has a better interface. My advice export your 4 images (png or jpg) then open in some other application and print from there.

RobertC
2017-04-08 19:11:50 UTC (about 7 years ago)
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Making large prints

There are a few ways you can do this. Your preferred size 16"x20" fits in quite well with US letter 8.5"x11" - gives 4 images with some margins.

Make a new canvas 16"x20" @ 100 ppi This is assuming that you do not need high quality for your crib sheet.

Use Image -> Guides -> New Guide (by percent) one Vertical 50% and repeat for one horizontal at 50%

That should get something like this without the gray patch which is equivalent to a sheet of US Paper. screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/yThs1Hg.jpg

Example gimp .xcf attached Using 20x16?You will need to rotate it 90 deg.

Open your photo as a new layer: File -> Open As Layers

Scale it up or down to fit: Layer -> Scale Layer screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/sJhL0su.jpg

Once happy with the scaling use: Image -> Transform -> Guillotine This creates 4 new images cut along the guides. screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/JIHTIqh.jpg

Printing in Windows from Gimp is often fraught with problems. This was linux which has a better interface. My advice export your 4 images (png or jpg) then open in some other application and print from there.

Thank you so much for that info, it helped out tremendously. your instructions were right on.

Got it all printed out and stitched up. Thanks again..........RobertC

Alexandre Prokoudine
2017-04-10 12:35:23 UTC (about 7 years ago)

Making large prints

On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 3:40 AM, RobertC wrote:

Hello Folks, Downloaded this program , and I think it is an excellent program. Never done much editing before, so im kinda lost. Been reading through the manuals and cannot seem to find how to make large prints.
Im wanting to make a print that is bigger than my printer can make. knowing that , i know there is a way to print a large print and then piece it together.

http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/

Alex