BladeRunner Badge Photo Help

[BladeRunnerFan]

Hello everyone, long time lurker, first time poster, but I always come here first with any problems I need help with as this community seems to be far ahead of others and very knowledgeable. But I could not find a thread on this subject, so I must ask;

Can Anyone help with a BladeRunner Badge center photo?
I purchased the correct wallet style and carefully trimmed the leather to fit the badge, and have everything needed to fill it up for display, but when I purchased the center badge ($18 on Etsy, metallic gold oval shaped) I didn’t even think about the photo and now wonder how I can make one? Do I just scale down a photo and then print and cut? Will I lose resolution going that small? The circle was 1.25x1.25 or 1.5x1.5, I’ll have to measure again, but if anyone can help it would complete my wallet and be more than helpful! Thanks in advance for any help, thanks guys

 

[eethan]

Hi,
when scaling down a photo for printing, the best way is to use a software like photoshop and increase the DPI resolution to lower the printed size and keep or even increase the actual details. Even a home printer can go to resolutions around 1200DPI, this is the number of ink dots it can put in an inch of paper.
if you just lower the number of pixels on your photo to have the proper size on paper as is, it is very likely you'll get a very poor print. most photos you find online are 72DPI because this is what we use on a computer. a good print starts at 300DPI. The badges I make, I print at 1200DPI (this is a bit overkill most will say, but the badges have very fine close together white on black lines and this was the only way to make it work after lots of tests)

I hope I didn't confuse you too much. Good luck for your photo, I hope you can make it work

 

[userd1402]

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[BladeRunnerFan]

I definitely appreciate it guys! I have photoshop and tried to put the resolution at 600, just to test it, but some photos it seemed to make them look worse on screen when viewing them in photoshop (I didn’t print though so they very well could have looked ok when printed). I had also noticed it seemed like the increased dpi almost made the prints look a tad ‘grainy’ when I used normal paper or cardstock paper so I figured photo paper would look best (was trying to eliminate the glare factor of photo paper), but I didn’t know if there was specific photo paper or regular type of thicker paper that people preferred to use? Thanks again for the help!!

 

[Moviefreak]

I definitely appreciate it guys! I have photoshop and tried to put the resolution at 600, just to test it, but some photos it seemed to make them look worse on screen when viewing them in photoshop (I didn’t print though so they very well could have looked ok when printed). I had also noticed it seemed like the increased dpi almost made the prints look a tad ‘grainy’ when I used normal paper or cardstock paper so I figured photo paper would look best (was trying to eliminate the glare factor of photo paper), but I didn’t know if there was specific photo paper or regular type of thicker paper that people preferred to use? Thanks again for the help!!

Often, just taking a 72dpi photo off the internet and changing to 300dpi or more in photoshop won’t give you good results. There isn’t enough photo information to “fill in” those extra pixels that you are asking photoshop up fill in. You can download a free trial of a program called gigapixel, which uses Artificial intelligence to render photos larger. Going too large will often make the photo look wonky, but I find just doubling the size of the photo will improve for printing. I say check it out and just remember to cancel the trial so you don’t have to pay for it.

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[BladeRunnerFan]

Hi,
when scaling down a photo for printing, the best way is to use a software like photoshop and increase the DPI resolution to lower the printed size and keep or even increase the actual details. Even a home printer can go to resolutions around 1200DPI, this is the number of ink dots it can put in an inch of paper.
if you just lower the number of pixels on your photo to have the proper size on paper as is, it is very likely you'll get a very poor print. most photos you find online are 72DPI because this is what we use on a computer. a good print starts at 300DPI. The badges I make, I print at 1200DPI (this is a bit overkill most will say, but the badges have very fine close together white on black lines and this was the only way to make it work after lots of tests)

I hope I didn't confuse you too much. Good luck for your photo, I hope you can make it work

I do have one question, if I set the resolution at 300dpi, and it’s printed on an 8.5x11 photo paper page but only with the single 1x1 inch photo, would this mean the entire page would be at 300dpi total and the 1x1 photo wouldn’t be 300dpi quality? And if so, is there a way in photoshop to make the page print with as many 1x1in photos as possible, like in a grid pattern or if I printed the single 1x1 on a full page at 1200dpi would it look better even if not fully 12000dpi itself? I also have 4x6 photo paper I can use, I’m just new to photoshop and wasn’t sure if each Image was printed based on the dpi or the full page itself, say if I had it set at 300dpi but dragged over an image set at 600dpi, would the 600 automatically downscale in quality? Sorry for so many questions, you guys have been a big help so far and I’m hoping I can get this figured out as I wanted to use the same photo of him used on one of his ID’s so it matches, but with sort of a vintage filter.

One last question I had was in regards to the other blade runners; I noticed on a photo from a deleted scene that Bryant has a BladeRunner ID that looks to be clipped on his shirt, and I thought I had came across a photo of Gaff speaking with Bryant and had seen his clipped to his belt or pocket, but while that photo you can’t make out any details, is anyone able to tell what photo or info is on Bryant’s in this Photo?

 

[eethan]

Hi,
when you set the printing resolution in photoshop (dpi), this is for the file you are working on. Any image you then drop into that file will "resize" to the size it should be in that number of DPI.
for instance, if you have a photo in 200DPI that is 1000x1000px, if you print it like that, it will be 12.7cm or 5"
if you now drop it into a 600DPI file and print it, you'll see that it will be 4.23cm or 1.66"

regarding the other characters, I don't think you'll ever find a photo where you can see what is written on there, even for Deckard, we still have to imagine it. that is what I did on my own badges,

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Hello there, I'm currently working on a project replicating very accurately blade runner badges and I want to create a badge for Gaff, Bryant and Holden as well. well, first, I used Harry Bryant and Dave Holden for the names of those characters and I hope this is correct and accepted by...

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for Bryant who is an older cop, I made a really damaged badge and created his photo with a photo from an older photo of the actor that I heavily photoshoped. I did the same for all characters actually
good luck