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Old 11-08-10, 09:23 PM
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Printing multiple panoramas-best method?

I've been playing around with PSE6 and constructing panoramas and now want to get them printed for mounting and possibly selling/using as gifts. Now I'm certainly no expert at printing other than a quick trip to Boots for a 5x7 etc. My question is how should I get, say, three panos onto one sheet for printing and cutting later? Some time ago I used the Fuji labs and got a marvellous set of 16x12 enlargements for about £1.25p each plus postage ,so I thought perhaps if I sent them an image which had 3 copies on it I could get back something like three 11"x 4" panos on one sheet. Any help appreciated as I've never tried multiple images on one sheet.
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If you sent the digital version of the complete panorama to a quality printer (and we're probably not talking about Boots here), you can get the panorama printed very nicely - just Google "photo print labs uk" and browse through a few.

However, "an image which had 3 copies on it" On one 11" x 4"???? You'd be better combining the three images onto one file. Make it the size you want and then add the images (in layers) and resize, shuffle around, as you like. But once they're on one combined image you may as well contact any High Street lab for that size.

So, create a new document at the same resolution (ppi) as the images, then open those three panoramas and drag and drop them onto the blank document. They become layers, which you manipulate to suit. When they're all in place, just flatten and save as a new file (probably jpg, as that's what high street labs seem to prefer now)

An alternative is to find somebody (in a camera club perhaps) that uses a home printer with roll paper. You could then make panoramas as big as 16" or 18" high by 20ft long, or more.

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Geoff, many thanks for your advice.I'm much clearer on how to go about it now
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