giant aerial Photo print outs for your wall

nicholas

nicholas

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Ok. I finally finished mine. It's been mounted, framed, and now...displayed! Here's what it ended up looking like. (with the black matting I gave it, it came to 40x40)
 

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mrtoad

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nicholas said:
Ok. I finally finished mine. It's been mounted, framed, and now...displayed! Here's what it ended up looking like. (with the black matting I gave it, it came to 40x40)
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Did you take is somewhere or mount it yourself? If yourself, can you tell us what you did?

Thanks,
Mike
 
nicholas

nicholas

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mrtoad said:
Did you take is somewhere or mount it yourself? If yourself, can you tell us what you did?
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I did it myself. Was too afraid to even find out how much it would cost to have it professionally done.

Here's the process I took, though I'm sure there are better ones, but I'm more than pleased with how mine turned out.

1) print images
2) used a nice paper cutter to cut them out
3) purchased foam mounting board. the image size is 37.5 x 37.5 when assembled (for MK) and the only size mounting board I could find that was big enough was 40x60, so I opted to cut it to 40x40 and have a nice border around the actual image. I also opted for black foam board instead of white because any small gaps or misalignments would show the white much more than the black and be more obvious.
4) assemled the images by taping them together (from behind so no tape actually showed. (another idea I had was to use spray adhesive on the back of each piece and mount that directly onto the board, thus assembling them there. but that just seemed to risky and permanent if I were to get something slightly off)
5) put the completed image onto the foam board (again, i used loops of tape about every inch around the perimeter)
6) ordered the frame and plexiglass. (a good and fairly cheap place to get frames is either americanframes.com or framesbymail.com, but framesbymail is the only one of the two that can handle shipping a piece of plexi that large)
7) wait patiently for frame and plexi to arrive in the mail
8) assemble frame (easy as pie) and insert art
9)hang on wall
10) ENJOY YOUR NEW WORK OF ART!

Anyway, that's how I did it. Not the only way to do it, but it worked for me. If you do one, especially if you do one of the other parks coffeejedi has made for us, please show your pictures!!!
 
mrtoad

mrtoad

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Thanks, I think I will do one but most likely it will be the MK. I have a nice printer so that should not be a problem How did you cut the foam board and did it cut nicely or tare? Just trying to set expectations for myself.

I am going to put it in my office. :)

nicholas said:
I did it myself. Was too afraid to even find out how much it would cost to have it professionally done.

Here's the process I took, though I'm sure there are better ones, but I'm more than pleased with how mine turned out.

1) print images
2) used a nice paper cutter to cut them out
3) purchased foam mounting board. the image size is 37.5 x 37.5 when assembled (for MK) and the only size mounting board I could find that was big enough was 40x60, so I opted to cut it to 40x40 and have a nice border around the actual image. I also opted for black foam board instead of white because any small gaps or misalignments would show the white much more than the black and be more obvious.
4) assemled the images by taping them together (from behind so no tape actually showed. (another idea I had was to use spray adhesive on the back of each piece and mount that directly onto the board, thus assembling them there. but that just seemed to risky and permanent if I were to get something slightly off)
5) put the completed image onto the foam board (again, i used loops of tape about every inch around the perimeter)
6) ordered the frame and plexiglass. (a good and fairly cheap place to get frames is either americanframes.com or framesbymail.com, but framesbymail is the only one of the two that can handle shipping a piece of plexi that large)
7) wait patiently for frame and plexi to arrive in the mail
8) assemble frame (easy as pie) and insert art
9)hang on wall
10) ENJOY YOUR NEW WORK OF ART!

Anyway, that's how I did it. Not the only way to do it, but it worked for me. If you do one, especially if you do one of the other parks coffeejedi has made for us, please show your pictures!!!
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nowisthetime

nowisthetime

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I wish there were some older pictures of the parks. For example, a version of EPCOT (before EPCOT became Epcot) before the wand was added and Horizons and World Of Motion disappeard.
nowisthetime.
 
CoffeeJedi

CoffeeJedi

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hmmmmmm, the red X problem would probably be Terraserver's fault... i've noticed the server gets a bit bogged down if it needs to load all the images at once and your connection is a little slow
hitting refresh AFTER the page stops loading (the bar at the bottom of the browser) generally seems to go out and get all the images you still need

as for doing it to disneypix, i haven't looked at how their site is set up, but i might be able to swing it.......
 
CoffeeJedi

CoffeeJedi

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ok, here's the deal (i just went to disneypix for the first time)
the giant all-property pic at disneypix is a single image, so i can't cut it up and cycle through it like i did with terraserver, however, you should be able to save it to your pc and print it out using Photoshop or another photo editor, in fact, they even have a pdf available that would work better using Adobe Acrobat
(in their defense, you could technically download any of their pics and use Photoshop to print them out, but i didn't know this site even existed when i wrote my tool)

as for Studios and Animal Kingdom, they're not available at this time in 700 meter resolution; you could copy/paste them out of the all-property picture, but they would probably only fit on a single sheet of paper at that size
 
DarkImage4

DarkImage4

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nicholas said:
Ok. I finally finished mine. It's been mounted, framed, and now...displayed! Here's what it ended up looking like. (with the black matting I gave it, it came to 40x40)
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Nicholas,

What did you mount the seperate print outs on?
 
nicholas

nicholas

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DarkImage4 said:
Nicholas,

What did you mount the seperate print outs on?
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a foam mounting board. I just went into an art/craft store and they had a custom framing section in it and I went over to them and said "I need a mounting board" and they showed me what to get.

And to the person who asked how hard it was to cut the mounting board...not hard at all. Just got an exacto knife and made a deep slice all the way across it and then kinda bent it and it just kinda snapped apart. There were a few places it remained intact, but then i just sliced through those. Just go slow and you'll be fine.
 
Laura

Laura

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I cannot believe this. Seriously. Ok maybe about a month or 2 ago I tried to do this exact thing on my own. I spent hours upon hours at the Terra Server website printing the ariel shots of the Magic Kingdom one by one, and cutting and taping them together to make a big collage to hang on the wall. I did this for an entire weekend. I had my poster about 85% finished and just got sick of doing it and gave up. I rolled it up and put it in my closet where its been sitting ever since.

I cannot BELIEVE this thread has existed for 1 1/2 months and I never saw it. This would have saved me SOOOOOO much work!

I can't begin to tell you how freaky it is to see photos of other people's aerial posters hanging on their walls, when I have that exact same thing sitting in my closet, especially considering I had no idea this thread even existed. It's freaking me out, what a weird coincidence. My husband thought I had lost my mind when he was watching me put it together that weekend. I am dying here. I can't believe someone has already pieces all those puzzle pieces together.

I'm excited because now I can finish the project in my closet!! Actually I'll probably just throw that thing away and make a new one. This is so great.
 

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