i did a test run, and the colors were so much better and even the cross hatching pattern on the white bits showed in detail...i want to save them in high-res format before any get destroyed.
obviously the illustrator [TRACE] button wouldn't turn out like the photo unless was just black and white or very simple.. and uh otherwise looking at 10-50 hours
@squarewithin - that's effing awesome. my mum worked in a printhouse for years, i got lots of access to neato toys. including the room-sized camera whose bellows i could sit inside.
Cool idea. I've been scanning my Polaroids at 300 DPI for Flickr and further downsizing them before posting. I should make a high-res catalog of them just in case.
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what kind of polaroid camera takes pictures with that detail level tho?
1 year, 7 months ago by UnConeD
O_O
1 year, 7 months ago by xalk
blowing them up to 50"+?
1 year, 7 months ago by randomfrequency
i did a test run, and the colors were so much better and even the cross hatching pattern on the white bits showed in detail...i want to save them in high-res format before any get destroyed.
1 year, 7 months ago by victoriapotter
you should try and do a trade and have someone scan them in exchange for a few prints!
1 year, 7 months ago by ariane
hmm good idea. i'm not sure i know anyone who would be able to do it, though.
1 year, 7 months ago by victoriapotter
drum scanner, or?
1 year, 7 months ago by randomfrequency
oh wait, that's 8000 dpi
1 year, 7 months ago by randomfrequency
haha! i wish!
1 year, 7 months ago by victoriapotter
"and here's your 900MB tiff"
1 year, 7 months ago by randomfrequency
egad
1 year, 7 months ago by victoriapotter
tracing in illustrator and resizing as a vector would take less time.
1 year, 7 months ago by xalk
"here's your 1.5GB .ai file"
1 year, 7 months ago by randomfrequency
haha. when i was about five yrs old i saw a drum scanner and decided to be an artist so i could use cool toys like that.
1 year, 7 months ago by svacher
...ummmm...that wouldn't turn out the same though (?)
1 year, 7 months ago by ariane
hand tracing and using gradient meshes? depends how detailed you are. i'm just saying scanning photos at 800dpi is time consuming.
1 year, 7 months ago by xalk
obviously the illustrator [TRACE] button wouldn't turn out like the photo unless was just black and white or very simple.. and uh otherwise looking at 10-50 hours
1 year, 7 months ago by xalk
problem with that is i don't have illustrator
1 year, 7 months ago by victoriapotter
it was in jest. but clearly, my humour is lost on you all :P
1 year, 7 months ago by xalk
sexy sexy heidelbergs.. mmmm.
1 year, 7 months ago by svacher
scratches head
1 year, 7 months ago by victoriapotter
stephanie: I got to operate a heidelberg tango and do image retouching for 2 summers working in a print house. is the sweetness
1 year, 7 months ago by squarewithin
@squarewithin - that's effing awesome. my mum worked in a printhouse for years, i got lots of access to neato toys. including the room-sized camera whose bellows i could sit inside.
1 year, 7 months ago by svacher
@svacher wish I had access to that again, especially I'm considering a 4x5 field camera as my next purchase
1 year, 7 months ago by squarewithin
Cool idea. I've been scanning my Polaroids at 300 DPI for Flickr and further downsizing them before posting. I should make a high-res catalog of them just in case.
1 year, 7 months ago by jezlyn