Digital Photography Bringing you Great Pictures? How about a 20-foot Print?
Compared to the convenience that digital cameras offer, even the most advanced compact film-based cameras must now seem to most people a little like those large boxes with a film plates on the rear and bellows at the front. But still, as far as technology has helped us come in the way we take our pictures, it seems to have left us more or less exactly where we used to be in the way we store and share them. Of course we now doing stuff all our photos and albums or shoeboxes, we stuff them on photo sharing services on hard drives instead. But we are still weighed down by a surfeit of pictures that we just have no real way of managing. For trigger-happy photographers, there still is nothing short of self-restraint that can help. But if photography is something that really gets you, digital techniques exist that do make the your weakness more pleasurable.
Photo printing was once a thoroughly professional sort of expertise. The only way that technology made it a little friendlier was to build large (somewhat affordable) machines that could reside in any little photo store or supermarket where you could get copies made. The huge machines behind the glass that you'd get to look at coming and going were pretty cool, but you still had to live with the thought that the people who worked at the processing place got to look at your pictures. But that was as far as it went. If you wanted specialist printing done for you, you were just plain out of luck. All that has changed today with photo printing services that do more than print postcard-sized glossy or matte pictures. They have services that can take your jpg's and turn them into a wallpaper-sized mural, into decals or anything else. You finally get to see how much detail your 14 megapixel camera actually captures. Let's look at some of the more innovative services there are out there.
Consider the service that Wizardprints.com offers. Do you want your girlfriend's likeness plastered over the ceiling or perhaps turned into a giant plastic sticker to roll on the floor? You're in luck. Do you want your babiy's picture turned into fabric wallpaper? Easier done than said. They offer you complete Photoshopping, airbrushing and photo stretching, and a six-foot tall mural won't set you back more than $150. Do you remember how in the 70s people suddenly discovered that wallpaper could have pictures on them? People would put great pictures of the Swiss Alps or a waterfall on their the living room walls, and it would end up looking nice but somehow tacky. You could take that idea out of cold-storage again and make it better with Designyourwall.com . You can turn your pictures into wallpaper to cover awhole 20-foot wall or bigger. You can have your choice of material too - anything from Mylar to fabric or canvas, and it wouldn't set you back more than $10 a square foot.
How about turning a favorite picture of yours into a kind of painting on canvas? With the digital photography printing techniques available with Canvaspop.com, you have art in the jiffy. The unique specialization this company works with is that they take poorly-shot camera phone pictures, and turn them into great images that are worthy of canvas. Since canvas does tend to dry out paint and cause it to crack, the cover it over with plastic veneer, and guarantee against any kind of damage. A six-foot canvas would set you back about $500, and you can choose to have it gilded and framed as well.
The effects of some of these techniques can be a little over the top, tacky even. It depends on the choices you make in pictures to print. These are techniques like any other; it all depends on the artistry you bring to it. When it all comes together in exactly the right way, the effects can be magical.