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Title: How could I turn this image into sideart?
Post by: Lilwolf on May 24, 2007, 08:17:48 am

Whats the best mechanism to print this for sideart?  I have a black painted cab and would love to spice it up a notch.  But I'm not sure the best way of converting an image (with color depth). 

here is the image

http://www.freakingnews.com/Death-Star-PacMan-Pictures-28154.asp (http://www.freakingnews.com/Death-Star-PacMan-Pictures-28154.asp)

Any ideas?

Title: Re: How could I turn this image into sideart?
Post by: shardian on May 24, 2007, 08:50:09 am

First off, you would need to contact the author and try to acquire a high resolution version. A small jpeg cannot be blown up to full side art size. Maybe you'll have luck, who knows?

Title: Re: How could I turn this image into sideart?
Post by: ChadTower on May 24, 2007, 09:07:01 am

Alternately, that would be easy to recreate yourself in an appropriate size.  A couple good cut/pastes, change the death star to yellow, cut the wedge out, etc.

Title: Re: How could I turn this image into sideart?
Post by: Lilwolf on May 24, 2007, 11:04:48 am

Yeah,  I considered just recreating it by hand... concept was more the fun part...  Didn't seem like a hard photoshop... and I can find good high quality deathstar images.

But the question is what type of printing should I use.  The ways I've done it in the past really only worked well with a few colors.  And this is really only 3 colors, so the color depth for each is really important.

IE...

Whats the best way to print photo quality color depth to use for side art?  (that wont cost an arm and a leg). 

I'm guessing that I will 10" x 10" would be fine in size. 

And I'm more then willing to go on the cheap for an almost good enought job.  Its for my internal machine taht already has a bunch of non-nice cosmetic issues.

Title: Re: How could I turn this image into sideart?
Post by: unclet on May 24, 2007, 11:27:45 am

Death Star Images:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=death+star&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2


Maybe scrap you idea and just use this picture on your cab for sideart

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/costume_deathstar.jpg

Title: Re: How could I turn this image into sideart?
Post by: ChadTower on May 24, 2007, 11:28:08 am

I'd say just send it out to someone like MameMarquees.  10" by 10" is a quick job.