Let me just tell you that I love the idea. Great thinking with the plexi-glass, having it by the stove it will get dirty quite fast, very easy to just wipe off the glass.
And I absolutely love the picture, and it could really look great as a wallpaper.
oh and congratulations on your apartment, i like the floor-plan.
Thanks! Im quite pleased with the apartment as well. If anything, its a tad small.
If the picture cannot be made into the kitchen backsplash, I will have to find another use for it. I love the "I own this hole" attitude I'm getting from it
Dont use plexi on surfaces you need to clean often. It will get micro-scratches from the wipes (and you will need to clean it often behind the stove) very fast which will lead to it looking dull and milky. It will lose its shine quickly if you use rough kitchen cloth, and nothing looks more shitty than partial dullspots on a nice shiny surface, esp with a picture behind it. If you want to go that way use acrylic glas, its a lot more resistant, althou a bit more expensive too. Or just go for real glas with some aluminum edges. Should be a lot cheaper, works the same way and looks good too.
Yours, a former interior architect.
Well its not regular plexiglass, its supposed to be scratch resistant. A friend of a friend has had this solution for a few years and he was happy about it. Still I'm a bit worried about what you are saying. I have a piece of this glass behind my current stove for testing purposes. I will try to use some abrasive materials on it, once enough grease has collected.
To be safe, I could only use soft cloth and non abresive cleaning materials on the final result, rigth? The worst case scenario is that I will have to replace the glass in the future.
Well I managed to stretch it by 1000 pixels, just to give an example. It is possible for the entire background to be replaced though.
Ok, first of all let me ask one more question. For an adequate printed image, one would need at least 240 ppi, am I correct? this would mean, that the end result needs to be at least 5700x28000 pixels.
About the example, its a bit difficult for me to imagine how it would look in final size. The light green seems to end a bit unnaturally atm. In my mind I imagined the final background to be the same shade of green you used on the left, with an occaisonal bright green or dark grey mixed in (top left corner of the original image). I hope this made sense.
As i see I currently have 4 options:
a) have the image extended as i described above. As I understand, this is quite difficult to achieve. Also I would have to find some high resolution close-ups of trees, if I want some to be placed along the wall.
b) Have the image smoothly turn into solid green. This way the image would be about as long as your example and from there on a solid green would follow. This should be a bit easier right? I'm a bit confused about what colors to use for the furniture, so it would match the solid green.
c) Have a completely different background blurred enough, so it would look natural. I have spent a good part of this evening looking for a good candidate, so far I have found a few "maybe" images. I will keep looking. Something like this is what I have in mind:
Is it possible to take part of this image and then blur it enough to fit the original image? Is there a "magical blurring tool" in photoshop, that can do this easily?
I will of course try and find an image with much better quality.
d) Use a completely different image altogether.
Right now I'm slightly leaning toward c). The big question is, will this look natural?
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