Place to find pictures good for rasterbation?

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duragezic

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I've did a couple rasterbations before, and they turned out OK. I've seen some really amazing ones in the gallery.

I like Cars, Bands, Guitar, Architecture/City skyscrapers, landscapes, etc

My problem is I can't find good pictures, especially ones that will look good when blown up large and in black and white. Yes I've tried Google Images. I would probably have to print it in black and white, but I could possibly do a fairly small color one (maybe 9 pages max).

Does anyone else does these big posters and have any ideas on what would turn out good? And any tips for putting it together? I don't like the ones that keep the roughly 1/4" border on every page... I've always cut off the border and joined them together as good as I can, but some of them in the gallery are so much better.

Here are ones I think are great:

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The third one has borders around it, but it and some others still look kind of cool in a certain way. I'm not sure if they are mounted on posterboard or something?
 
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Parrotheader

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Get on Flickr and do a search for some panoramas. Most of the best shots won't have the original full-size file. But a few will.

My office is rather small so I don't have a lot of horizontal room after all my furniture's accounted for. But I thought about trying a vertical panorama.
 
Modeps

Modeps

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Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Where can I get some high res portrait landscape shots of cities?
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The whole point of the rasterbation process is that you dont NEED hi-res photos.
 
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Alone

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Originally posted by: Modeps
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Where can I get some high res portrait landscape shots of cities?
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The whole point of the rasterbation process is that you dont NEED hi-res photos.
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Are you sure? I thought rasterbation was just enlarging an image and printing it on multiple pages. With a high-resolution image, there would be less distortion when resizing, so it would look clearer?
 
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ViviTheMage

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Originally posted by: Modeps
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Where can I get some high res portrait landscape shots of cities?
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The whole point of the rasterbation process is that you dont NEED hi-res photos.
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I have a LARGE wall to fill and a really good printer, so I want it hi res :D

Originally posted by: iRONic
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Where can I get some high res portrait landscape shots of cities?
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http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/categories.php?id=58
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thank you!
 
Modeps

Modeps

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Alone
Originally posted by: Modeps
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Where can I get some high res portrait landscape shots of cities?
Click to expand...

The whole point of the rasterbation process is that you dont NEED hi-res photos.
Click to expand...

Are you sure? I thought rasterbation was just enlarging an image and printing it on multiple pages. With a high-resolution image, there would be less distortion when resizing, so it would look clearer?
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There's basically no good way of taking a 5 MP image and blowing it up so it can be as large as your cube wall. You will always lose clarity. Rasterbating takes an image and converts it to a series of dots (vector circles).
 
iRONic

iRONic

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Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: Modeps
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Where can I get some high res portrait landscape shots of cities?
Click to expand...

The whole point of the rasterbation process is that you dont NEED hi-res photos.
Click to expand...

I have a LARGE wall to fill and a really good printer, so I want it hi res :D

Originally posted by: iRONic
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Where can I get some high res portrait landscape shots of cities?
Click to expand...
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/categories.php?id=58
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thank you!
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No prollem.
 
Modeps

Modeps

Lifer
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Originally posted by: ric1287
what do you guys use for more "professional" rasters? poster board? thanks
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Simple posterboard would probably work just fine. you may want to look into higher quality paper too.
 
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duragezic

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Yeah it takes hours to even assemble, say a 16 page A4 rasterbation, and do a good job on it. That's a pretty rushed job mb, but as you can see from the gallery there is some very kickass ones if you take the time. Sure you could buy a poster, but with posters I always end up flipping through and never really find what I want. I'd rather spend a boring afternoon doing one of these of a picture I exactly want, for free. I could make a rasterbation out of one of the pictures I have of myself snowboarding, for example. :)

Anyway thanks for the few links, I'll keep my eyes open for something I'd wanna put up. Then again, not sure if I can even put up anything on the walls at my new place. The landlord seems picky about anything on the walls. All I really want to do is use two screws to mount my rear speakers, and a few pushpins/tacks for a poster/rasterbation or two. :disgust:
 
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mb

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Originally posted by: duragezic
That's a pretty rushed job mb, but as you can see from the gallery there is some very kickass ones if you take the time.
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It definitely was :D I was just messing around with the software to see what it would look like. At $0.01 for B/W and $0.10 for color, I think I might use the $9.76 in my university printing fund to make a HUGE one :D


How do they get some of them so clear, like this one?
Ahh, apparently a 1mm dot size will sharpen it up a bit.
 
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