How to manage a REALLY BIG graphic?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

I have a dream and it's the size of a wall. A BIG wall.

maps.google.com has just added the keyhole satellite image data. What I would like to do is take a wall in my basement (~24x8 ft) find the center of it and paste up an 8-1/2 x 11 glossy satellite print of my house at the top resolution. Then move out in all directions adding segments until I fill up the entire wall making one giant image.

Now I could approach this as a simple cut and paste (ie with sissors) type affair but that seems a bit low tech. What I would like to do is create the image in the computer so I can paste all the images together correctly, add a few notations and then print it out.

Is there any not too expensive software that's good for dealing with humongous graphics?

Do you want to paste the images together before the output or are you talking about pasting them together after printout?

There are programs available for stitching the separate images together on the 'puter. I prefer Photoshop, but mainly because I already have it.

Your best bet for output is probably Adobe Acrobat (note: I say this using FULL Acrobat - I do not know if this feature is avaiable with the free Acrobat Reader although I would guess there is). There is a tiling feature in the output - that is probably the easiest method.

Resolution in going to be dependant on the original. While technically you can "upsample" the resolution, the results are worse than the lower resolution (IMHO).

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Do you want to paste the images together before the output or are you talking about pasting them together after printout?

Ideally I want one mega-gig image stored in the computer that I can print on stadard paper, trim off the edges and put togeter like a big puzzle.

I could print the individule segments but I think it would be a challenge to trim them so there was no overlap or gaps on the final product.

I have a full version of Acrobat so I guess I'll try that first and see just how big of an image it will tile.

Thanks.