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Creating a poster using Photoshop

kevlightkevlight
edited March 2009 in Chit chat
I am tying to make a poster for my games room of a montage (I think that is the right word) of Crash magazine covers to go over my bookcase with all of my Spectrum mags. I will get it printed using Snapmad (http://www.snapmad.com/about.php).

I am hoping to use Adobe Photoshop to create it but don't know where to start. I want to include maybe the first 60 covers (I don't really like most of the later issues) and the optimal resolution, according to the website, is 3750 x 2500 for a poster 30" x 20". I would like to be able to create a grid and just drag and drop the individual image files into it to create a single image.

Is this possible? Can anyone offer any suggestions? Does a poster like this already exist somewhere for purchase or download? Is there anywhere more suitable than Snapmad to order from?

Sorry if I have been a bit vague :)
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  • mjwilsonmjwilson
    edited February 2009
    There was somewhere offering a poster of the "clean" CRASH issue 1 (ie no text). I think it was around at the time when Retro Gamer gave away a free poster of it. But I didn't keep the URL and I don't know whether they're still around.

    (I guess that wasn't very helpful, sorry.)
  • andrew_rollingsandrew_rollings
    edited February 2009
    aowen wrote: »
    Photoshop doesn't do page layout. Try InDesign.

    That would be a pain to do with InDesign... I'd probably use Photoshop...

    Actually, I'd probably end up writing a program to stitch all the images together come to think of it...

    I... I'm not helping much, am I?

    Andrew
  • kevlightkevlight
    edited February 2009
    Thanks for the replies so far.

    I will Indesign a try, I am surprised that Photoshop can't do what I am trying to do considering the money it costs.
  • Paul van der LaanPaul van der Laan
    edited February 2009
    Sure you can do it in Photoshop:
    - make a new document with the preferred size (in pixels) for the poster
    - calculate the height and width (in pixels) of your grid and define these in the preferences
    - open the picture of your favorite cover and scale it to the size of your grid
    - copy and paste it in your document and position it
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited February 2009
    Yeah its easy as anything (the post above).

    I made my own poster by pasting all the covers of the cd singles of my favourite group. Looked quite good in the end and was easy to do.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited February 2009
    I still use photoshop version 7 and I would find it more than easy to do what Van the Man suggests.
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  • Paul van der LaanPaul van der Laan
    edited February 2009
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    I still use photoshop version 7 and I would find it more than easy to do what Van the Man suggests.
    Tell me... What exactly did Ruud van Nistelrooy advise you to do? ;)
  • Paul van der LaanPaul van der Laan
    edited February 2009
    aowen wrote: »
    I'd forgotten about the grids. I did most of my serious Photoshop work when it was still version 3 not CS3. There are also a few handy auto-resize tools available that can batch process files.

    The other day I demonstrated my intern the first Mac I bought in 1993: an LC II with 6Mb RAM and a 14" monitor. System 7 is still snappy as hell, but Photoshop 2.5 just *crawled* on that machine..!
  • kevlightkevlight
    edited March 2009
    Thanks for your help and ideas.

    In the end I used Microsoft Publisher 2007 and converted the document into a image - I have used Snapfish and ordered a poster 30" * 20" for ?13 delivered, I have bought a painting in a frame the same size from Wilkinsons for ?12 and have thrown away the painting. I will let you know what it looks like when it arrives.

    I now making a similar poster, this time with covers of Spectrum games - can anyone suggest any good covers/boxes that I could add, I already have a few ideas but I reckon there should be space for about 100 games on it.
  • milemile
    edited March 2009
    here's a challenge for you. get all the speccy covers and make them very small and arrange them in a way so altogether that make up a famous speccy character. When ive seen this done with other posters they tend to cheat and shade the little pics in.
  • milemile
    edited March 2009
    aowen wrote: »
    I think a picture of uncle Clive showing off the original machine is the ideal picture for conversion. I'd make it up from game loading screens though. There are programs that can do this automatically aren't there?

    maybe there is something on the net that will be able to do it. It shouldn't be that hard though, you are just breaking down the basic colors. great idea to do clive. not so sure about loading screens though, there would be a lot of black.
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