Making multiple images

Another awesome and timely video. For those of us that are computer illiterate,how did you make the multiple images after you resized the original. I used the "Paint" program to edit my original image,but don't know how to make the multiple images on one sheet to send to the printer. Thanks for helping. 

       Tom

Great way to model The Sun

Great way to model The Sun newspaper, you know what I mean. 

Always enjoying learning new skills from your video's

Regards Phil

Re: multiple images

You just create a new file, copy each image and then paste into it.

Jose.

Cup of Tea

I haven't tried this, but I recall an old trick of soaking the paper in a cup of tea to give it that old yellowed appearance. Wouldn't work with inkjet printed papers.

Multiplying images

Thanks for all the compliments!

i used Word to print this but any document editing software should do. 

I import a newspaper, change the width to 0.14" then type a space. 

I now have a tiny newspaper and a space. I select those, copy them and paste them (I highlight with my mouse, use cmd/ctrl C and cmd/ctrl V but you can right click too). 

I do this 10 or so times then re-select the newspapers and repeat but this time I'm doing 10 at a time which makes it quicker. 

Normally I fill a whole page. 

Then I just send it to print. Without the spaces, the newspapers run together. It's a matter of personal preference whether you do the space as it does mean more cutting afterwards. 

Hope that helps. 

Kathy

The problem is not printing the thing...

The problem is not printing the thing as small as you're looking for if you have a good enough printer (as all you need is the original image and a calculator to determine how big it needs to be), for me it's finding the right image at all.

On my layout, everything is tightly specific to the area the layout takes place. All the movie and warbond posters have lettering at the bottom that tell you (correctly) where you go for that.

I've been looking for any good graphic for a summer 1943 edition of the local newspaper (the Elizabethton Star, in TN), with zero results so far. I plan on modeling a stack of them, if only I can find the right cover to use. I also have a figure holder a paper, and I want to put the right headlines into his hands...

Library...

I'd try a local library and my cell phone camera for an authentic paper that specific. Or, Photoshop if you don't mind faking it. 

Randy

A start?

I found this quickly online. A little work on that headline and it might make a good start. There are probably better images if one spends more time digging around. 

Randy

Digging around

I'm a stickler for detail. I've spent a LOT of time looking for a summer edition from 1943, to no avail so far. i even contacted the newspaper directly but they couldn't help.

I live several thousand miles from the nearest library which would have nay of these editions, though.

Newspapers

Dear Kathy: 

I have done some similar reductions and I was glad to see your technique. I have made bundled newspapers by gluing one paper to the top of a cube of styrene prepainted to match the color for the paper. I filed the edges slightly and used a piece of extremely fine wire from a DC motor looped around it, twisted at the bottom and flattened as much as possible. 

I use Photoshop in my work, but it is very expensive these days- an alternative is to use tea to tint printed out newspapers for a good weathered effect. And like real newspapers, they can be folded. I try to keep the open sides away from viewers because, as I think you pointed out, laser or inkjet paper is much thicker in scale than real newsprint would be.  

Adobe Elements or some of the free photo or painting apps permit you to tint the image. And of course, you can lighten the "black" print to make faded printing. I make newspapers a very pale tan color (extremely pale- possibly 5-10% with black printing. I sometimes darken the edges for papers sticking out of a trash can. 

It is also possible to print out magazine covers, and as with newspapers, they might not be readable, but the overall format will show up as being recognizable- Time or Cosmopolitan are just two that have a strong enough graphic that they will work very well. Make the front and back covers (the ad on the back) and in this case, make sure you get original images of the correct time period for your models. 

I enjoyed your video a lot, Kathy. Very effective. 

Best wishes-

Victor Roseman

Thanks, Kathy

You formalized a technique I used several years a go for one of my first AP structures. The GLW Freight House is in the South Bend IN town on our club layout ( http://pcmrc.org). The man sitting on the dock edge is reading the local paper for that era. There is another copy that has blown into the corner below the stairs.

So, here is another place where this has been used, 1/3 of a world away from your digs.

Weathered newspapers

i just used Kathy's video to print 100 "newspapers" I will used around the layout as litter.  Worked like a charm. To get the yellow/tan weathered look I used my google machine to find a photo of a newspaper that is already yellowed,then reduced that image and printed it. 

    Tom

Digging around

Lee: perhaps there is an archive in TN that would have the papers and could send you a few photos?

Free Photoshop alternative

One of those free (and open source) applications is GIMP. It will do nearly all of the things Photoshop will, and quite a few it won't. I've been using it for years. It's available for Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

Great comments

Hi All

It's great to see so many scale newspapers coming out of the wood works.  I love seeing how other people use these videos to trigger ideas or have done similar things previously.  I also love the idea of a pile of papers - and perhaps a boy selling them.

Please do post some photos of your newspapers in situ.

Kathy

PS, I don't have an answer for finding a specific newspaper for a specific day but if I couldn't find one then I would make one up in Word or Photoshop and replace it should I ever find the real thing.

Apple folks

Pixelmator is available for the Mac and for the portable devices. The Mac version equals Photoshop, IMHO. It was about $30 for the Mac and one purchase covers all your Macs. From the App Store.

i wouldn't get too worried about the specific paper for HO. Once I did what I did, it is illegible. I'd go for a yellowed image regardless of the actual content. Look for a page with a bunch of ads and a few small stories from about your era. The  large ads and photos will show up more than the text. Ad designs morph over time.

Thanks Bruce When you

Thanks Bruce

When you actually print them and see how little is legible, even in a blown up model photo, your comments are spot on!

Kathy

On the subject of resolution:

Here is an overhead view of the HO scale paper I mentioned earlier in this thread. Shot overhead with flash to bring out detail. In other words, a record shot, not fine photography.

You really can't read the text that I worked so hard to make right. Future adventures will focus on the page layout:
front: Headline and photos
middle: articles and ads
ads only

Bruce It does look like a

Bruce

It does look like a great shot (photography aside) and makes me realise again how important scale distance is.  Sometimes, all we need is the semblance of a newspaper - as you say - headline, photo, text - rather than the actual detailed newspaper itself.

Thanks for sharing

Kathy

Old newspapers: how to get them

Retired librarian -- among other things -- here.

if I needed a 1943 front page, I would contact the periodicals department at the state university (UT Knoxville?) to see if they can print a copy for you from digital or microfilm copies in their library.  

The other possibility is that the local county library that serves Elizabethton could do the same.  Once you have the front page, you can process as in this video.

You may have to sign a release that you will not use the copies for commercial purposes, but the cost of reproduction should be small.  

Getting newspapers

I have already tried the libraries and archives that would have the newspapers I need. All required I physically go there, none offered remote reproduction.

I live several thousand miles away from the nearest library that would have them, so I have asked a couple of people local to there to check this out for me. We'll see how that goes.

My 2 cents here: Two good

My 2 cents here:

Two good links I've used in the past, well, not to print something ( I model in N scale!), but to find industries name, historic news for my locale, etc.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?hl=it

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GzlcqhCAosUC&dat=19270721&b_mode=2&hl=it

Download your copy of a past newspapers and ....

Cheers

Just as Most have Alluded to

When we see something that is familiar but has missing elements, our brains fill in the blanks (not always correctly) from our memories of previous experiences.

We see a scale newspaper and assume that all of the elements are correct whether or not they are actually there or even legible.

Espee over Donner