The thing is, in what format does the company ask for you to contribute your work in? I know Photoshop used to have the ability to export to vectors even a long time ago, and certainly Illustrator I am assuming is still a part of Adobe CS, but if you can use vectors you can start or work with a bitmap or photo etc, and edit in gimp, however you begin the images, then convert to vector.
I did a search for "Exporting from Gimp to vectors" and it came up with some pretty interesting stuff, especially the svg stuff. http://registry.gimp.org/node/15375 Dan On 4/25/12, Daniel Smith <opened...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I got it to work, at least theoretically. > I think it's in the same way that you would create a large image in > Photoshop, but to test it I opened an image that I already had that was > 72 d[i and about 35 inches wide, an old pic of my cat. > > With Image>Scale Image I bumped up the resolution, then with > Image>Canvas Size I bumped up the size, in this case to 58X72 inches. > The thing is to play with the "chain link" icons in these boxes, if you try > to change the resolution then all it will do is inverse the size if you > don't > unlink them. (Of course, I'd like to hear from any of the experts on this > list. > I'm just a graphics hack. > > By the way, have you ever made an image this large before? Even at 58X72 > at 1400 dpi with color that's going to be a monstrous file. My machine went > for > minutes and hadn't finished resizing it so I exited. Of course on this > Mac I only have > one gig of ram at present, but I don't know if any computer could > handle an 80 yard > file, Photoshop or Gimp. You'd better have a lot of cpu, ram, and > extra hd space, > swap file space. > > Do you have any links or examples of fabric you've created? I've always > been > interested in that. > > Waiting for real the advice... > Dan > > On 4/24/12, Tara Gover <taraje...@mail.com> wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I am printing super high res images onto fabric. My print guy has >> instructed me to create my images in 1440 dpi and my fabric is 58 inches >> wide and about 80 yards long. I need to create ONE image so they can just >> print it continuously along the whoe piece of fabric. So I need to create >> a >> REALLY BIG image. They have recommended Adobe Creative Suite, but of >> course >> I want to do it with GIMP. >> >> Just today, I installed the latest GIMP, and it doesn't seem to be >> letting >> me create even a 58x72 inch image in 1440 dpi. Is there an add on or a >> way >> that I can create huge tiff files in GIMP?.....or do I have to shell out >> the >> cash and get Creative Suite? >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> Tara >> > _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list