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Free High-Res Posters & Art?
DHS Odium
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So I'd like to class up my apartment, and I though about printing some high quality pictures out and getting them framed. I'm having difficulty finding a source for free images however. Everywhere I see wants to sell me a print, but I want to print it myself.
An example of something I'd be interested in: http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/ROS/SPR6265~Orient-Cruises-Affiches.jpg
I originally wanted older style posters like that, but any movie posters would be fine. Even the covers of some comic books. I'm thinking about doing a few series, say a set of 2 framed pictures with things in common, maybe the same artist, in one room. And another room have 3 classic comic book covers.
I understand some things probably need to be licensed first, hence the difficulty finding free high quality images, but someone here must know of a source for free images that are allowed to be printed. My initial though about the old posters would be that they are now public domain (are they?).
I'd just be making regular 8.5x11 page prints, by the way. Thanks.
An example of something I'd be interested in: http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/ROS/SPR6265~Orient-Cruises-Affiches.jpg
I originally wanted older style posters like that, but any movie posters would be fine. Even the covers of some comic books. I'm thinking about doing a few series, say a set of 2 framed pictures with things in common, maybe the same artist, in one room. And another room have 3 classic comic book covers.
I understand some things probably need to be licensed first, hence the difficulty finding free high quality images, but someone here must know of a source for free images that are allowed to be printed. My initial though about the old posters would be that they are now public domain (are they?).
I'd just be making regular 8.5x11 page prints, by the way. Thanks.
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There's a reason why most artists aren't freely distributing their larger high quality files, and just providing the internet with a 600 x 600 .jpg: art takes time, and if you like the art, if you respect the amount of work that went into it, you should support the artist by purchasing a print or comic or graphic novel or whatever.
I know you have no intention of ripping anyone off, I can see that, since you're looking for free source images -- but why not go through some independent artists websites and find some stuff you like, and request a print? Might be 10 dollars, might be 2 dollars. It'll be more original, and you'll feel good because your apartment will look classy as hell, and you'll feel good for supporting an independent artist.
You could also look into the Rasterbator for enlarging any images that might be too small for their purpose. And it looks classy as hell.
I would argue that it depends on the image you use, how you rasterize it, and how you print it. If you get the right dot density and size and print it all on a single sheet of A2 or something, it could work very well. Printing everything out on separate A4 sheets, less so. Unless it was maybe a very long and thin image and you framed each sheet.
1879 x 1500
2024 x 2531
just search google images and set it to "extra large images"