This is the big moma I'm working on. The wire file will eventually be put into this one. It's all in 600 dpi so it can be scaled somewhat massively for printouts (hey, my school gives the lab monitors unlimited prints, and I can probably weasel some gigantor paper out of my design teacher). Needs a lot of work, I'm gonna have to draw in shadows manually, and create a better sense of depth (the negative flooring is completely focused??? I don't think so boy... at least not when it's done). Anyhoo, comments encouraged/demanded. ry

good grief... what a project, can't wait to see it when it is done.

Dude This is intense! Got a quick question, and a rather lengthy discourse. Can you post this in a larger size? I would like to be able to see the details more closely, but at my monitor settings this only fills about a third of the screen. When you say this is at 600 dpi I get a little confused about what you are trying to say In Photoshop there are two separate settings. First is the actual image size. This is found under the Image menu, and allows you to set the image resolution to either PPI (Pixels Per Inch), or in PPCM (Pixels Per Centimeter). It is also an option on the new file dialogue box when you create a new file The second is the print resolution. This is referred to as DPI (Dots Per Inch), and is independent of the image resolution. This is merely a way of telling the printer how many dots of ink to produce for each square inch of printing surface. So whats the difference??? Look at the two images in the post below. Both of these would print at the same size. However the one at 72 PPI is going to print large blocky looking pixels no matter what you set the print (DPI) resolution to. The one at 300 PPI is going to print continuous tones with smooth transitions even at a lower print resolution. The bottom line (and I hope you know this already) is that any image you are producing for print should be at 300 Pixels Per Inch unless you are working with an offset printer who gives you different specs. For Desktop (Laser, Inkjet and Dye Sublimation) and Large Format Inkjet printing 300 PPI is the standard. The only advantage to working at 600 PPI is that you and enlarge the file before printing without any visual loss in print quality.

If I were an ardvark, I would still be a tree.

600 ppi dude. If it were 600ppc, my computer would have melted by now.

im re scaling one for you now alpha. Problem is, my modest system is trying to convert something that is infinitely larger than what Im rescaling it to, to something muuuuuuch smaller, and, at 72dpi. My HD light will be spinnning for another 20 minutes. Either way, just to let you know, cause the jpg probably wont do it justice, yup, the negatives are pretty clear when you zoom in on them really close.

That was some pretty clean tiling dude. I wanna see what happens next.

Good god. This is neat!!! How'd you think of this one I don't know but from my viewpoint it's well done. It's gotta be HUGE for it to work well though. gonna put it on you web site! Bsteph

I dun have a web site, as I realized how much I truly despised web work about 2 years ago. It's 600 ppi, so I could pretty much enlarge this thing about 2.5x's with no real loss in quality, and even bigger if I'm willing to tolerate some loss. If I recall correctly, its already at 11x8.5 inches. Thanks to some sound advice, I got some good blurring going on to create a better sense of depth, and some contact sheet walls have been erected (penispenispenis!!!!). I prolly won't be putting to many more WIP's up, because the thing takes way too long to resize. It topped the 600 meg mark about 2 hours ago. ry