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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by cwclark hi guys, I have some pictures of city skylines that i want to use as backdrops. Does anyone know how to blow them up bigger using a PC scanner and the printer?...Chuck[:D] [/quote] Chuck, To answer your original question, you can enlarge the photo in any image program including Microsoft Paint., which most people have already installed on their computer. As an experiment, I've taken a series of photos of some distant mountains with a really cheap digital damera, opened each in Paint, enlarging them as required and spliced them together into a panoramic photo. You could do the same with scanned photos. This is something you can definitely do at home. Photo-quality paper in individual sheets is readily available at Staples and the like. Doing it yourself lets you experiment in cropping and enlarging the photo, test printing it on plain paper, altering the photo if necessary. Even with a cheap program like Paint, you can remove small details that you don't wish seen by cutting & pasting. My camera is the cheapest possible and, as photos, are pure crap. But as a distant image of tree-covered mountains, could be as passable as a painted background. (This by way of explaining why I'm too embarrassed to show you the results.) When I get hold of a decent camera I'll try creating the final background photos. I haven't tried printing it yet. I'm looking for a source of photo-quality paper in roll-form rather than individual sheets. Most printers, even my inexpensive Lexmark, has a setting for banner paper, 8 1/2"x 117" I think 8 1/2" could be tall enough if raised enough with hills and trees in the foreground. I like the idea of taking photos from the abandoned roadbeds of the Adirondack branches where my layout is allegedly set. If nothing else on the layout is prototypical, the background scenery is authentic. Wayne.
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