Creating Your Own Film Poster or Picture
How to Make Your Favourite Movie Scenes Into Art
Jun 24, 2008
It isn’t necessary to spend fortunes on expensive movie art when it’s possible to create artwork using your P.C’s DVD player and a copy of the film you want to use on DVD. What’s more you can pick and choose what images you like. Using this guide you can have your very own customised piece of movie memorabilia for your wall.
Capturing The Image
Every PC DVD player has a freeze frame capture facility. It’s normally located on the DVD player controls and sometimes has a small picture of a camera as its icon. Before you capture the image you’re going to have to configure the DVD players capturing facilities. These are found in the Configuration Advanced settings. In these advanced settings is a section called Snapshot. It is here you can choose the image format and the destination folder for your captured images.
Find the image you want to turn into artwork and then pause the DVD. Hit the capture button or use the keyboard shortcut (usually C). Your image has now been captured.
Manipulating the Image Using Photo Shop
Once the image has been successfully captured it can be imported into Photo Shop, where it can be re-sized and visual effects can be added. For example these effects can make the image look like a watercolour, change it to black and white or add text.
Printing the Image
Once the manipulation of the image has been completed it can be saved and printed.
How and where the image is printed depends on the final destination of the art work. If you save your image as a jpeg it can be printed at most places. There are a multitude of methods of printing images available. You image can be printed
- As a standard photo
- Onto canvas
- Onto a T-Shirt
- Onto a poster
Some printing companies will have an issue with the use of images from films because of copyright infringement issues. It’s best to ask first what their policy is. Moreover, please do not use this method to make commercial images that can be sold. This method is intended for personal use only.
Mounting the Image
There are many art shops on the Internet that specialise in mounting art work. The price varies depending on how an image is to be framed. Glass frames are the most expensive and card frames the cheapest. Some websites have useful interfaces where they will let you enter the dimensions of the image and then display the mounting options available.
Why not experiment with multiple images such as three from the same film? Three images can be used to create what is called a triptych. Triptychs are very striking and cardboard triptych mounts are available online.
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