Thursday, November 11, 2010 Printing Instagrams
I’ve been absolutely loving a new free app on my iPhone, Instgram, which allows you to treat your photos with a collection of about a dozen one-click effects such as “X-Pro II”, “Lomo-fi”, “Lord Kelvin” and more, then share them on their server—as well as cross-posting to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and more. The treatments are really well done, the output image looks great, and the app is a pleasure to use.
In fact, I actually made an automatic rolling slideshow on the right of this page (under the Twitter feed) of the images as I post them, I’m enjoying these so much. Sweet!
Recently I tweeted that I couldn’t wait to get a couple hundred of these photos made so I could print a collage, and decided that I needed to test this out with just a few. The image output is only 500 pixels square, so if you want to print at 300 dpi, that’s only 1.67" square print, which is kinda small. I’ll try at 133 dpi, which I think will be just fine, and will give a 2.25" square print.
Here’s the test collage.
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15 Instagram photos in a 5x3 collage. Each photo is 500 pixels square, so the collage is 2500 x 1500 pixels. Click to view the full size collage.
Ultimately printing one of these wall-size will be very cool indeed!
Reader Comments (5)
Very cool!
Have you tried the new Dali Museum Goodpak for the Hipstamatic app?
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great idea... If you import the photos stored on your iphone they come out at 612x612, not 500 by the way.
I'm really into Instagram too and have been thinking the same thing about printing a collage. Your rolling slide show is awesome.
Matt,
I've been meaning to give Dali a try… worth it?
-Joseph
Chris,
Oh really! Nice to know, thanks!
-Joseph