[Azzgunther]

I have a picture I'd like to put up on my wall. However, I'd like to expand it by about 6x to take up a 3-4 foot area. This would involve printing multiple pages of a blown up image. I can't find a way to do this. Does anybody have any suggestions for setting up Photoshop CS to print a huge image by printing a section of it on each piece of paper? Thanks.

[sereluna]

I want to do this too.
So far, I've got to (this for printing a landscape image onto four pieces of A4... I'd like to do it larger):
1) make sure you have an even number of pixels both across and down
2) go to Canvas Size, select one of the corner anchors, and enter a new size of precisely half one of the pixel dimensions
3) let it crop the image into a corner
4) repeat for the other three corners with the original image (which you have of course saved separately).
It's not a very good method. I don't know enough about Photoshop [Elements] to know how to do this accurately with more than four pieces of paper (it would obviously be easy with 16, and I suppose 9 might work if I could remember my 3-times table). There was a discussion on it here a while ago, but I don't remember if anyone had a good answer. There must (should) be an easy way.
Your picture is of great enough resolution not to look terrible at that size, isn't it?
You might also need to print with a bit of a white border on the paper so you've got something to stick the sheets together.
Random question: if A4 paper is not standard in America, does that mean cheap (i.e. one-size only) printers take the American version of it over there, and wouldn't work in Europe? (And isn't that an awful hassle for the printer manufacturers? Wouldn't it be simpler for them just to make all printers multi-size?)

[moose_n_squirrel]

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Random question: if A4 paper is not standard in America, does that mean cheap (i.e. one-size only) printers take the American version of it over there, and wouldn't work in Europe? (And isn't that an awful hassle for the printer manufacturers? Wouldn't it be simpler for them just to make all printers multi-size?)

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I think they have done that. My printer drivers all list the international and American paper sizes. I can pick A4 if I want.

[Azzgunther]

Thanks for the suggestions. The picture would be of a high enough resolution to look good blown up. It's black and white and a simple silhouette design. I might try that anchoring suggestion, but I was hoping to spread it at least 5 sheets wide. I'll post back here if I find anything out.

[charlieartist]

Is there any option in Photoshop to tile the image? If so, it would only be an issue of running out the pages, trimming at the marks, and assembling. If not, you may want to consider a service bureau or full-service photo store. Considering the price of ink and paper today, it may not be a bad choice...

[sereluna]

Was poking around eBay, and you might be interested in this. It looks pretty tacky, and all the screenshots are of Windows; the story sounds thoroughly unbelievable, etc - but he says he has competitors /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif.
(The point being that if the thing worked; ran on OS X, etc, it would do what you/we want. I might have a look on Versiontracker now)

[sereluna]

Link - it's still in alpha. <-- edit: this is actually a brilliant little program, once you fiddle with the options a bit. I haven't tried printing with it yet though.

Another, not-so-good link.
Do you have a particular reason for wanting to do it in Photoshop or were you just assuming (like me) it was the obvious option?

[Azzgunther]

I assumed that Photoshop would have this capability built in as well. It doesn't seem like something that would be particularly complicated; you would just tell the pages to divide by some factor of the original image that would fit onto the designated pages.
Thanks for the leads Sereluna. Poster Print 1.0 did the job exactly as needed. I printed off a picture of one of those seagulls from "Finding Nemo" peering in from the side. It's against the side of a window in the room so it should be fun to see people's reactions when they see a giant seagull gazing in at them /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif