Question:
Super High Resolution Images?
Christina J ~ spygirl
2007-07-06 21:00:37 UTC
I'm part of team that's putting together a booth for the local fair and we need to find some high res nature pictures and a barnyard scene. They need to be a good enough resolution to print about poster size. Are these available anywhere for free or selse semi-cheap?

If they aren't available on the internet where can we find them?
Three answers:
Talhadj
2007-07-06 21:48:18 UTC
No, you certainly won't find anything like that online, at least not for free.

If you don't need your poster to be super fine then you could just print at 72 dpi. A 3' by 2' poster for example would be about 12-15mb, which is around a 1700x2500 pixel image(ok, so thats a pretty big poster, but just an example). While it's still unlikely you will find that online for free, you might get lucky. You could shoot that with a 5 or 6 megapixel camera that you might happen to have.

If you need a really superfine image on the other hand, you are probably gonna be looking at pro shots or something. The same size poster as before, when printed at 300dpi (photo quality) can be around a 10000x7900 pixel image which is over 200mb. Thats a fat file! Not likely that you will need something like that for a local fair tho.



There are a few websites round that offer free textures/images without royalty, but there are still restrictions on use and therefore you would need to read their EULA or whatever closely. Mayang's Free Texture Library is one example. They offer a few nature backdrops, but i'm still not sure they would be adequate for print nor would they really be what you are looking for.



I hope this helps some.



Edit: A 5 megapixel camera is probably not going to get you a decent print thats anywhere over maybe a foot & a half wide and tall. My camera is 5 megapixels; my brother printed a 3 or 4 foot wide (don't remember exactly) poster shot by a 10 megapixel camera. Just an afterthought.
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2016-11-08 14:16:03 UTC
What? in basic terms take your digital camera exterior and take some photos...they are going to all be a minimum of 1080p provided you have a minimum of two megapixels....which may be greater suitable than 1080p....
jobe j
2007-07-08 01:23:11 UTC
creative.gettyimages.com/



Stock photo's, Some free some- semi cheap, just look around for the ones you like and follow the steps


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