Photo gurus, need advice/assistance

[derf]

When I was 16 I had a house party and I fucked up a photo collage of the capitol building that my parents had taken. Today I went back to DC and took some crappy cell phone shots and put it together.

What would TWF suggest as the best way to get these printed out on photo paper. I know they are not perfect and don't exactly match up, I took them with my cell phone and pieced them together in MS paint. I do not need a perfect quality photo job, and what I have is good enough.

Anyway, whats the best way to get these printed out in a decently large size, something near 20" across for the wide shot?


(larger size)
http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/8791/capitol3.jpg




(larger size)
http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/6894/cptlbldg2.jpg



While piecing these two photos together I also discovered that the largest size photo that MS paint can handle before it locks up my computer is 114728 x 70806. I had all the photos from these two pictures, plus a third version, plus a few extras that didn't come out good on one sheet and it locked the damn computer up.

[askmrjesus]

Save it in the highest resolution possible, and take it to Kinko's?

JC

[Trip]

Use an Internet photo printer like snapfish, Walmart, or Smugmug

[azoomm]

Originally Posted by Trip

Use an Internet photo printer like snapfish, Walmart, or Smugmug

I love snapfish.

[Lamnidae]

Originally Posted by Trip

Use an Internet photo printer like snapfish, Walmart, or Smugmug

Originally Posted by azoomm

I love snapfish.

Word.

BTW Def - pretty good pano you got there w/ that cell phone. Good job.

[udman]

A Jewish guy talking about blown up pictures of the Capital building on the internet.

There's a really funny joke in there somewhere...

[derf]

here is the one I didn't care for, mostly because of the grass color

[Papa_Complex]

Download Autostitch. Feed it the original, full resolution images. Crop to suit and see if the final product is improved, as it will attempt to match levels and content automatically. If so take the final file and print through something like Snapfish, as suggested. AMJ's Kinko comment isn't too far off either, because at least you'll know immediately what the final product looks like.

In future use a real camera, with manual focus, white balance, and exposure set, and you won't have to worry about it getting screwed up.

[derf]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Download Autostitch. Feed it the original, full resolution images. Crop to suit and see if the final product is improved, as it will attempt to match levels and content automatically. If so take the final file and print through something like Snapfish, as suggested. AMJ's Kinko comment isn't too far off either, because at least you'll know immediately what the final product looks like.

In future use a real camera, with manual focus, white balance, and exposure set, and you won't have to worry about it getting screwed up.

I wasn't, in fact I was looking for it to be slightly more screwed up than this. I am trying to replicate a photo my parents took of the building in the early 90s with a disposable camera.

I looked at walmart and was having issues with their online software automatically cropping the photos for me.

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Amblyopic

Word.

BTW Def - pretty good pano you got there w/ that cell phone. Good job.

Seriously.

At least on the screen that came out really well