Where can I buy large album art?
November 7, 2005 8:08 AM Subscribe
Where can I buy, or have made, a large print/poster of the album art to Mike Oldfield's Crises?
I'd like it to be significantly larger than the CD booklet, so scanning it and reprinting it larger is, I think, out of the question. I considered trying to find a vinyl copy and scanning the sleve, but: a) Vinyl is bigger than my scanner, and b) I'm guessing finding a good quality sleve to scan would be difficult.
I'd like it to be significantly larger than the CD booklet, so scanning it and reprinting it larger is, I think, out of the question. I considered trying to find a vinyl copy and scanning the sleve, but: a) Vinyl is bigger than my scanner, and b) I'm guessing finding a good quality sleve to scan would be difficult.
Actually, scanning it at very high resolution and blowing it up will likely work better than you think.
You might try a copy shop like Kinko's or perhaps a local one. If they've got someone "managerial" on hand they may not want to let you do it because it's a commercial work you're replicating/blowing up. However, you can always just go to another copy shop, or come back when a less picky employee is working there.
An alternative, if you have a graphic design savvy friend who is good with Adobe Illustrator, would be to have him/her "trace" the image in Illustrator. It's mostly line-art, so it should be pretty doable for someone good. The only tricky part will be the moon, but someone good can probably replicate it reasonably well.
posted by twiggy at 8:37 AM on November 7, 2005
You might try a copy shop like Kinko's or perhaps a local one. If they've got someone "managerial" on hand they may not want to let you do it because it's a commercial work you're replicating/blowing up. However, you can always just go to another copy shop, or come back when a less picky employee is working there.
An alternative, if you have a graphic design savvy friend who is good with Adobe Illustrator, would be to have him/her "trace" the image in Illustrator. It's mostly line-art, so it should be pretty doable for someone good. The only tricky part will be the moon, but someone good can probably replicate it reasonably well.
posted by twiggy at 8:37 AM on November 7, 2005
Walmart (evil!!) has a 500x500 version of the art, which is better than Amazon. (Also a lot darker, but I don't know which one is more true.)
posted by smackfu at 8:43 AM on November 7, 2005
posted by smackfu at 8:43 AM on November 7, 2005
IIRC the actual shade is pretty much right smack dab in between Wal-Mart's and Amazon's renditions.
That's an illustration, not a photograph, so it MIGHT be possible to use autotrace or some similar facility to convert it to a vector drawing with a little work. Then you'd be able to blow it up as big as you want.
posted by kindall at 10:28 AM on November 7, 2005
That's an illustration, not a photograph, so it MIGHT be possible to use autotrace or some similar facility to convert it to a vector drawing with a little work. Then you'd be able to blow it up as big as you want.
posted by kindall at 10:28 AM on November 7, 2005
Best answer: If your interest is legitimate, you could contact the artist yourself.
posted by dhartung at 11:12 PM on November 7, 2005
posted by dhartung at 11:12 PM on November 7, 2005
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posted by cmonkey at 8:33 AM on November 7, 2005