I am looking to print some Backdrops and am inquiring if anyone knows of any good sites to get some good pictures from…
Not that I’m recommending plagurism, but http://backdropwarehouse.com/ has many pictures that are copyable, all types of scenery. At least you can ideas there.
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Thanks for the response, did not mean Plagurism by any means, just inquiring if people were using any sites that had great views… turned out I had some pictues that I blew up from a trip to the Rockies…Worked perfect.
Google is your friend. If you’re looking for graphics, press the Images button and it will just look for pictures. I use this to find old advertising shots. I use them to make decals, which I add to the sides of buildings. Did you know that George Burns and Gracie Allen did ads for Hormel’s well-known canned meat product?
I use the Huge Pictures program and found that most downloaded pics did not blow uo well. I use pics I took with my little digital and they work much better.
Arthill-What is this Huge Pictures program of which you speak?
I dont know what everyone else uses, but I have had great results from Adobe Photoshop , blowing up pics I have taken with my 2.5 mp digital. I blow them up and blend them in my PC, then print them out on cardstock. A little trimming, then 3M spray adhesive and presto, instant backdrop!!
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I have also used the backdrop CD from LARC products. For $19.95, there is a lot there! Check out www.geocities.com/larcproducts
…I get nice buildings for my backdrops by copying & paste from postcards on ebay. I paste them on a Publisher desktop and scale them to HO. Then you can print them on card stock, trim and mount them to your backdrop. You can also do this for signs. Also I use my digital camera for other views making sure there are no modern signs or vehicles that are newer than the year I model.
Scenic Express is probably one of the largest sources of model railroading scenery materials. The backdrops link is on the left side…
for my grain elevator I’m building!! No one makes a commercially available decal like I want.I’ve looked at Micro scale,etc.Id settle for anything like Purina,Ralston Purina,Purnia Feeds,etc with a red and white checkerboard of coarse.
Thanks for the responses; still working on it, trying to do myself what Geocities has with my pics on a trip to the Rockies…did print out OK…but not clear enough for what I want, probably would have to use better paper on very high quality…price will start to climb doing all this…might just be better off buying the Backdrops in the end…the pictures I had were from a 50mm Minolta with Wide Angle and was set to Panoramic…not Digital which I am not sure if this would make a diference in printing if anyone would know??
Yes, better paper means better prints, to a point. I use cardstock that I bought in a ream at Walmart.
I’ve been using a 2.5 mega pixel Olympus camera. Lil thing, fits in my shirt pocket, but yields 16x22 inch prints, Before I start monkeying with them in Photoshop! The biggest expense here has been the printer ink. Still I figure its costing me about a 2 bucks a foot for the backdrops.
Not too bad, especially when you consider the I can determine the placement of backdrop elements, giving me total freedom with the forground elements!