cabinet graphics

[mysta2]

I want to do a wall of builtins along my back wall with a graphic across them. This is my layout:

The graphic is about 19'x9', 300 dpi and composed of around 2000 1.5"x2" photos. I'm waiting for a quote from Unique Garage and have an e mail out to GarageWallWraps.com.

Who else should I be asking about doing this? Are there other companies that do this sort of thing? Really I don't need a print any wider than 3'... and for that I could go to Kinkos, but then sticking it to the wall and protecting it are the remaining issues.

 

[sammerdog]

fwiw - There's a guy in Holland Michigan who can give you a quote also (using your photo, or he can help with a file photo):

http://www.digitalxl.com/index_portfolio.html

Also in Holland, these guys do photographic ceiling tiles.... so while you're wrenching, you can look up and pretend you're far far away ina forest of poplar trees....

http://www.ceilingscenes.com/

Good luck and post some pictures if yo pull the trigger on this.

 

[-B-]

Any of the places that do custom car wraps can do it too, all the wraps start out from a roll of flat material.

 

[Ray-CA]

Try giving these guys a call:

http://www.garagescenes.com/home.php

I've seen their work at a shop in town and it's really good.

Ray

 

[Distinctive-Garages.com]

Unique Garage has quality stuff...PM sent.

 

[77fixer]

Check with local sign shops.

 

[Kevin54]

The graphic is about 19'x9', 300 dpi and composed of around 2000 1.5"x2" photos. I'm waiting for a quote from Unique Garage and have an e mail out to GarageWallWraps.com.

Pretty cool but what the hell do you have 2000 photos of? All the same thing or 2000 different pics to make up the mural?

 

[Jack Olsen]

A screened-back image could also be painted in a weekend for the cost of maybe a gallon of white paint and a quart of black. You'd just need a computer with Photoshop on it and a cheap optical projector. In Photoshop, you can 'posterize' the image to a set number of shades of gray. Two shades would be just full black and full white -- but 12 shades would give you subtle steps in between the two. The image you've shown only goes between about 5% black and about 40% black. Once you get a master ready with the borders made clear, it'd be like paint-by-numbers.

 

[hguerrero]

A screened-back image could also be painted in a weekend for the cost of maybe a gallon of white paint and a quart of black. You'd just need a computer with Photoshop on it and a cheap optical projector. In Photoshop, you can 'posterize' the image to a set number of shades of gray. Two shades would be just full black and full white -- but 12 shades would give you subtle steps in between the two. The image you've shown only goes between about 5% black and about 40% black. Once you get a master ready with the borders made clear, it'd be like paint-by-numbers.

so you would paint this by hand? can you explain a little more?

 

[Tech Guy]

Check with MikeN on the board here as his company does this sort of thing I beleive and he also made up the Garage Journal decals.

 

[ultgar]

I've recommended GarageWallWraps on several of my projects and they do an excellent job. For straight graphics, on vehicles or toolboxes, the best I've found is Matt at VBD (see http://www.vbdgraphics.com/portfoliocategory.php?category=Motorsports Graphics ) and he travels up and down the East coast.