Split Printing
Print big on a budget.
We want to print this photo big.
My photography tip this week was to print big. Printing big allows you to really show off the detail of your work and nothing says wow like a large photo. But what if you don’t have a large format printer and don’t have the funds for doing big prints? This is a great way to printing large sample images with out the large print cost. Split the image up and piece it back together. I’m not suggesting that you try to line up the edges of sections of the photo, but if you take the image above and add a design element like below you can easily line up some white areas of your image. There’s nothing to match up other than corners.
The image is sliced so the largest area is easily printed on a letter sized printer.
In this example, the upper right corner could be the largest print one could make on their letter sized printer. You don’t have to have the breaks being as wide as shown here. But make the spacing wide enough so it looks like you meant it. As an added tip, you can take a section and add a different photo to make it be more than a inexpensive way of doing a large print. It becomes a signature print. The possibilities aren’t endless, but pretty close.
Add extras to make this more of a signature print and less budget.
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Nice tip on being creative and using what one has to the maximum benefit. This is something I’m going to have to try. I can print 17″ wide now, but using this approach I can go “huge”.
I hate to ask for even more help, but when one isn’t as skilled, one has to ask. I have my prints commercially produced. How would I prepare the file to send to someplace like MPIX to do something like this?
If you are having them produce commercially, then you really don’t need to do a split print since commercial printers have a lot of sizes to choose from. But, you could conceivably do this same sort of effect with a commercial printer if you had multiple photos that were in a specific pattern so when they were hung on the wall a certain way you could easily tell that they are all part of the same image. Now that you’ve given me this idea, I’m going to have to do it myself. Time to add another project to the list.
As for the setup of the image for the splitting, It is reasonably straightforward, but it’ll probably be best for me to do a video showing the steps in Photoshop. So I’ll get that together and post it soon.
Thank you. I’m glad to see that I can be of inspiration to someone. It seems to be happening so seldom for me recently.