Comments on: Where can I buy large album art?

Question: Where can I buy large album art?

Mwongozi — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:08:26 -0800

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.

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:33:38 -0800

Can you scan it and scale it? If you can, you could have these folks print it up.

By: twiggy

twiggy — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:37:36 -0800

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.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:43:52 -0800

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.)

By: kindall

kindall — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:28:49 -0800

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.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:12:51 -0800

If your interest is legitimate, you could contact the artist yourself.