Have you ever considered printing your digital prints a bit larger? Have you ever wanted to blow them up, frame them and hang them on your wall. With our slr Canon Rebel we printed about a half dozen baby pictures last month and gave them away for Xmas. It was sweet.
Digital pics can be enlarged depending on how big the files are and you definitely need a powerful camera on its highest setting to get a big juicy pic, but C Lab will help you, can check your file before printing.
The biggest stock print you can do is 11x17 and that will run you $20 a print. Of course, you can go much bigger, but it gets pricier after that.
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If you live near a Costco, their photo department will do an 11"x17" print in one hour for about $4. I'm not sure if you need to be a member though.
Any Kinko's can also blow up a photo to 11x17, probably for less too.
i printed some of the pics i took of the gates in central park in feb 2005 through ofoto/kodack gallery on canvas. they were pricey, but they don't need a frame because they come stretched and they look great.
www.art.com will blow up digital photos to 24x36.
I've used 'em for 8x10's and they did a great job for me.
However - the fact that C-lab does drum scanning makes them notable.
I won't use a drum scanner on anything less than medium format slides/negatives myself. But when you do get those gorgeous scans back, they're amazing - if you have good slides/negs to start with. You can't come close to drum scanning quality with desktop scanners.
Even inkjet prints (13x19) from a good drum scan will make people's jaws drop.
So while I wouldn't use C-lab for printing, I would definately consider them for drum scanning.
One caveat - if you have drum scans made, be sure to specify RGB, as most labs do CMYK by default and the gamut of CMYK is much smaller than RGB.
you can get super nice 20x30 prints via iphoto
Printing at Costco requires a membership - for small prints, up to 5x7, they're great. I had an 8x10 photo printed, and the color looked drab.
I got a 24x36 enlargement printed at my local Walgreens for about $15. It took about a week to come in and I think looked good enough.
My husband's business, Print Space in Chelsea (http://www.printspacenyc.com/) has a Chromira digital-c printer (traditional color photos are c-prints). They can print up to 30 in. wide by whatever length your file is. There are also Imacon scanning stations for those who shoot film, and traditional B&W, and color darkrooms for rent by the hour. Print Space will be happy to help newcomers with tech support. For prices, call 212-255-1919 ext 8. The prices for prints are on a sliding scale for quantity. I recently sent in a file that was originally a 1.2 mb jpg from my Canon Elph. I enlarged it to 20x24 for a gift and the recipient was very happy and I was quite surprised that the image held up to that size.
Mpix.com makes great high quality prints. A 10x20 is only $8.99. You can even get a 20x30 for $25.
Would anyone know who or how one would do something like the art in Aad's bedroom?
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/post-your-baby/readers-art-aads-happy-art-016697
Here's the link, but I'm not sure it will work.
If I can't take a photo somewhere to do this, does anyone know of some places that sell this kind of "wallpaper photography"?
That dandelion wallpaper came from this company:
http://www.eijffinger.nl/index.jsp
You can also find other wallpaper like that, check online, search using the term mural. But that company has some of the nicest ones I've seen.