? about wedding invites
Josie Morgan
sheri hastings <sh...@johnson.cornell.edu> wrote:
>we have a very special car that we want to have drawn
>... we can get it reproduced not only for regular letter/cards, but
>thank you notes, and ultimately, on the front of our wedding invitations.
>what size would/should this be?
Sheri,
Have your visited with some local printers, sketch in hand? A family
I worked for had a huge portrait of their children (oil based
original) that they had made into notecards. I think this involved
taking a photo, doing some serious cropping and creating the
plates/negatives needed. Since your size is more manageable,
it might be that a local shop could scan in the print and work
with a digital file to create the artwork for the smaller notecards
and stationery prints. Iris prints are generally expensive
but have amazing quality. Once that print/photo is digitized
(the expensive part) you can use it an any number of formats, cropping,
reducing and enlarging as needed. (Make backups of the disk or
tape!) [And ask at more than one shop! Prices vary in a wide
range based on the businesses volume in this kind of work.]
You didn't mention if your print is B/W or color. If you get
an 'regular' 8x10 print made from it (could Kinko's print a
reduced version with any quality?) you might try sending it to
Exposures (800-572-5750). They have some neat items that might
be fun to have. If you send in a photo/artwork, they can scan it
and reproduce it as:
-Custom mouse pad (15.95)
-Photo memo cube (14.95)
-Screen savers (34.95)
-Impressionist "painting" (79) (This looks neat "Using a computerized
process, our artist will vignette and 'paint' a version of the
photo in an impressionist style on luxurious watercolor paper."
In 8x10 gold-tone frame."
-Two notepads printed in old-style sepia ink (19.95)
- OR, what you are looking for: 20 folded notecards (19.95)
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I had a friend do a similar commission job for me. I just wanted
a quick 8x10 sketch of the house my g-aunt grew up in; Matt did
a huge drawing, and put incredible amounts of time into the details
of the house (scrollwork, lattice, etc.) There was just no way
I could ask him to redo it on a smaller scale after he sweated
over the original. (And a smaller version would have lost so
much of the intricacies of the first version) Just something to consider
if your artist friend is doing this for free. (I ended up paying
--gratefully--four time what I originally offered to pay. It's easy
to underestimate the effort and skill involved.)
Hope this helps. Check with local print shops/graphics studios
before recommissioning the drawing. I bet you can work from
the first.
--
Josie, mccr...@aspire.cs.uah.edu
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sheri hastings
we have a very special car that we want to have drawn - it has been sketched
for us on about a 9x12 picture - the problem is, to reduce it would most
probably make it look funny - so i want the guy to redraw it on a cardish
type size so we can get it reproduced not only for regular letter/cards, but
thank you notes, and ultimately, on the front of our wedding invitations.
what size would/should this be?
thanks for all help!
sheri & bobby
sl...@cornell.edu
HollyLewis
In article <sheri-24109...@128.253.208.187>,
sh...@johnson.cornell.edu (sheri hastings) writes:
I have a catalog at home (Levenger's?) that offers stationery with an
ink-sketch type picture of your house, car, pet, whatever, made from a
photo. As far as I can tell from the catalog, they're beautiful. If
you're interested, I'll try to find it -- email me.
Anyway, most cards and invitations are somewhere between 4x5 and 5x7, so
if you have your artist re-do it, I'd suggest about 4x5 or a little
smaller.
Holly (& Ken)
8/25/96