shawshank, the good the bad and the ugly, lebowski, dark knight, fight club, usual suspects, back to the future, raiders of the lost ark, alien, avengers
@@23SSG no, I didn't have any issues with Gimp (other than learning how it is different that Photoshop). It seemed to work pretty smoothly for me. Of course, updates and processing speeds can have a lot to do with how a program handles as well. If it keep crashing, I would look into what requirements the program needs to work. Good luck!!
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Wish this had came out two weeks earlier. I just spent $700 on media posters for the movie room. Now it’s time to redo all of the like this. Great info. Thanks for sharing.
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Bravo! Very cool project! I hope do use this technique for my home theater in the future. One tip for any beginners to woodworking is to assemble the frames with the holes for the pocket screws on the outside of the box, rather than the inside (as is shown at 6:00 in this video). The reason is to allow those pocket screws more material to bite into. For this project it does not make much difference, but if one was building a bookshelf or cabinet, the screws might tear through the wood and the joint could fail.
A canvas stretcher tool would help with wrinkles and fit. Just look in the art department by the premade canvasses. I think they run about $10, maybe cheaper
This tutorial was perfect! We followed it to create our own and they came out amazing! We have videos up with our theater room with our sound absorbing posters.
Awesome video with such great details. We finished 4 posters today. Ended up spending more money than $60 per poster as the lumber cost has gone way up this year. Myfabricdesign messed up our order and took forever to deliver. All-in-all very pleased with the outcome. Thanks so much!!
Love it.. thanks for the detailed explanation. Functional & looks great. I recently visited a friends home theater & he had several movie posters in glass around the room & all i could see was the reflection of light from his screen on the glass of the poster. I had one framed with this expensive glass that is supposed to be anti-glare (i.e. see through) but in a dark room i could see a reflection so I never hung it on the wall (and spent more than what you did for all 5 panels). This is my next project for my theater room!!!!!
Ah man that sucks about the reflections you got. These things are so cool looking and zero reflection! Granted I wouldn't put a mostly white print near the front screen area cause you'd still see some light from that... good luck man! Check out the forum for more help on them too.
I told you, these are awesome! Big shout-out to Nick for all the help with the artwork & sizing! Now get those clouds done and revell in the stereo separation that ensues! Feel that big fat sweet spot!
I liked the video, but you get the sub because you were transparent about your amazon links. I appreciate the honesty. Many people post amazon links without being up front about it.
Ciao . Ti seguo dall'Italia . Sei un grande , hai un home theatre strepitoso. Hello . I follow you from Italy. You are great, you have an amazing home theater.
You'll get better sound absorption by using thinner pieces of rockwool and having a small air gap in between. Use scrap pieces of rockwool or strips of lumber to hold the sheets of rockwool apart. Glue them in place. I suppose you could also use bubble wrap to create the gap too. I might try that route myself if I make a panel.
There are probably several effective ways to make absorption panels. Would be interesting to see some data on the difference between the two types of panels
Hi I just found this video, I was looking to try these for our home cinema but have found most of the sites are now defunct, would you do an updated video with details of places to achieve the same ends. Thanks
I liked this video quite a bit! My build is quite similar to yours. Once I get my Volts on the back wall I am going to look at acoustic treatments for the rear. I'm not sure I want to do movie posters yet... but they look great in your space.
Thanks man, definitely filled in some wall space and made it more finished looking. And helps with sound, so win win. And yea you can do the same thing with a solid color fabric of choice if you didn't want movie posters, would be a lot easier. Just make sure the fabric is fairly thin and transparent for sound!
I personally do not know which fabrics to avoid, you'd probably want to jump on the AVS Forum link in the description and ask around there. Others have experimented with other fabrics I believe. Sorry!
Made one this weekend. Used pine instead of poplar to save some $, also used Owens Corning vs. the Roxul to save a little more $. Came out great, though. Really impressed with the resolution of the print on the material. Thanks for the tutorial!
Well, I built some of these but did a few things differently and I am still waiting on my print outs to show up so I can complete them. I converted my upstairs game room into a media room a while back by adding a door and closing in a 9'x4' opening that looked out over the stairs. That room also has 4 - 34"x58" windows and I needed to close them in somehow but I don't like blinds (don't block enough light) and I don't like curtains. So a friend sent me your video and this is exactly what I needed. I built out acoustic panels per your design with the idea that I would inset those into the window frames. I have that part done. I put white cloth backing on the back and used the same insulation as you accept the outside has the reflective radiant barrier on it to help block any additional heat coming in from those windows. Those windows are on the side of the house and not visible from any angle really unless you are in my side yard so that is good. Once I get my print outs I will cover the boxes and then I plan to cut some trim to fit around the outside edges as a frame to make these look more like poster boxes. That will seal out the remaining light that is coming in on the edges and will completely block the light for my media room.
I love mine, they're the first thing people notice when they walk in. Don't forget to add a 'cloud' or two to the ceiling to reduce that 1st reflection point and improve the front sound stage imaging even more. Can't wait to see your REW analysis. All I have left to do is some bass management; and then start over upgrading hardware...lol
@@LifeofBliss You only need a low profile 2in thick panel of OC703 to absorb the upper freq range bounce. I have 8.5 ft basement ceiling and it made a noticeable (ie: my wife) improvement with center channel dialogue clarity and stereo music sound stage.
pretty cool idea and I am happy to see you using GIMP but just a hint to that, resize the canvas then you can center the poster with the function and when you add then the new layer there are two options first you can decide if it gets under or above the current activated layer, choose under and another option allows you to create it with the for-/background color so when you have black as this one just use it saves another working step
Hey, just checking in. Great video Kyle! I've always said on the forums that anyone can do these. There are always a few extra steps for things like images with white backgrounds, ones with black edges to the image and hot to align those when the border is also black, verifying image quality (can't always trust the internet image sites as most of those are already enlarged, but some are better than others, and how to handle that dream image that doesn't look up to snuff before printing). Those are more of the exception than the rule and people can head over to that forum link in your description to ask for more specific help, but this should work spot on for almost everyone. Again, great video, and everyone else in the comments, go make some panels!
Thank you sir. You have been a huge help and hopefully more people head to the forums if they have more specific questions about these. Many ways to make these to get similar (and better) results. I could only speak to one the 1 time making these. But they are definitely easy to make and should be on everyone's short list for a useful wall decoration!
Great Video from start to finish seems like it's an easy enough project to try. After seeing prices of $200 per panel this is definitely worth a try. Thanks for the great step by step explanation.
3:42 to adjust scale image as you like, you can click icon chain like in scale windows windows ( right of the image size column, width and height), so the icon chain like separate, and you can adjust scale image as you like 5:36 to center your layer, you can use Alignment tool in gimp ,,, located on the right of the tool you are using ,,, the icon like Alignment tool in office software,,, thnks for sharing this video,, (y)
Great video, thanks taking the time to make it. I am trying to do the same but with 70's rock bands instead of movie themes. Any idea where I can find a site to upload photos?
Yeah I also built my own sound panels for my "studio," but your movie poster idea is off the hook. They're just perfect for a home theater setting. And I can see that HT room is your new favorite place to hang out, eh?
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This is an amazing idea. Would be great to redo this video. Saw this today, but moviemania doesn’t exist and the printing company doesn’t exist. And I have an iPad 😅
Thanks. Don't really have the time to make these for others at the moment. Plus it'd have to be something other than movie posters. Anything other than personal use like this could be frowned upon...
I haven't used GIMP in many years but with many image editing programs that has support for Layers you should be able to select both layers then use some sort of Align tool to center vertically and horizontally.
Thank you thank you thank you! I watched a LOT of video tutorials on acoustic panels, but yours was EXACTLY what I was looking for. I needed to know the best way (and best company to buy from) to put images on fabric to cover acoustic panels. Your video was a life saver. I'd post my finished product but youtube doesn't have picture comments - Ah well! Message me if you want to see them!
Picked 8 posters from your suggested website moviemania.com and also used the same designmyfabric website and they arrived the other day and look perfect, nice to get the 25% discount as I'm in Canada with the weaker dollar. Time to iron them all...next step, build the frames...when I stumbled on this video, it was perfect as my son and I wanted to have posters up in the home theatre, a project idea that started a year ago but we never tackled it and I wanted to have some acoustic panels. I learned a lot from using GIMP, by the 3rd poster, it was a few minutes to edit each poster and save. Thanks for all your time here, very appreciated.
Finished 6 of the 8 posters last night and they look incredible...the quality of the images printed on the cotton fabric are surprisingly good. Happy Son, Happy Dad!!
Thank you for the detail video. I have flowed all your steps but the issue I am having is with size of the actual original files. I am not able to download anything higher than 3mb. I am downloading the 2500x4000. my panels are 24x48 and when I update the resolution on the GIMP app to 300 it completely distorts the image.. Anyone else having same issue or can recommend a solution??
I think I'm going to re-fabric the ones I made last summer with these. I had just used some basic prints that I found at JoAnne's. Doing favorite movies will be nicer. I'm going to need to play with the images a little more since I have them built at 25x49. I should be able to get the sides wrap with the image instead of just being black.
@@LifeofBliss Thanks, looking at it when I got home last night I think I might make new panels that are properly sized for the movie posters and reuse the current ones elsewhere. I think it'll give me better results and I do have some spots for the old ones. Now that you have panels up you should do a REW part 2 video that shows the effect of them. In your REW video there's some echo in the room when talking so it'll be cool to see the change.
This particular fabric has been used for years by the DIY community making these. As long as you have a fairly thin breathable fabric, sound is going to pass through it to be honest
Hey man. A couple years ago I used your video to create movie posters for my theater room and they came out amazing!! I am doing a golf simulator room now and would like to do the same thing with High Resolution images of golf courses and a few golfers. I am having trouble in Gimp with my pictures I guess because they are long not tall....... Any help would be much appreciated.
I think because the High Res images I downloaded arent 2500x 4000.... Any ideas where I could find some without paying a lot from somewhere like shutterstock? Thanks in advance.
@@LifeofBliss Seriously, your channel has been a huge help. I am also planning on building my screen like your other video and using Carl's material with leds. Really good stuff.
This is a great video. Looking at the example picture that you pulled in, the pixels per inch are 300. Did you scale it from 72 to 300 prior to the video? I think that is an important step to possibly add to your video. Thanks for the help!
I didnt do anything to the image before editing it... if it didn't change automatically, I adjusted it, but I should have gone over every step... regardless, you are correct, the DPI should be between 150 and 300 to get the right resolution for printing 👍
Given how much carpet, plush couches, cushions, curtains and sound-absorbing posters you have in that room, there seems to be quite a lot of echo on your mic input. Did you add additional reverb for the video?
FYI you need to change dpi before u change dimentions when you are rescaling in gimp, or you will get wrong dimentions(like i had for the first attempts).
Wow I really love these!!!!! I believe I can use my corel drawing program to edit the files. I'm definitely gonna give it a try. Thanks for this video.
Dumb question but let's say I wanted to do this for an A3 frame (or a 30x40 Ikea frame), all I have to do is follow the same steps but scale the image to 297mm (A3 width) at 3:40?
Great video! I ordered my prints but haven't received them yet, hopefully they come. I just wanted to let you know that the print company just literally went out of business right after I placed my order. Maybe in the future you can make a new video and suggest a new place for these prints. I ordered extra but maybe down the road I would like to make some more.
I saw that on the forums... bad deal. Hope they can locate another place to get them printed soon. I need to make some more for our new place soon! That'd be a good update video for sure
Hey Kyle, and anyone else making these. Someone posted that there was a way to center the image and add the black border, without having to make a new layer. He didn't go into detail how to do it, but I figured it out. After you scale the image, and fit image to window, click on Image/ Canvas Size. Change to inches, and make it 33x48. Change offset to inches, and click Center. Change Resize Layers to All Visible Layers, and Fill With to Background Color. This step drove me crazy, but I figured it out. The Bucket Fill color that says Active background color, needs to be Black. It was white, and kept filling the background to White. Click Resize, and you'll have the poster all ready, with the black border. Then just rotate 90 degrees to upload it for printing.
Thanks man. Admittedly I'm not the best with video or photo editing. I was able to stumble my way through getting these how I wanted them, but there are some quicker and easier ways. Thank you for sharing!
Very nice tutorial. I’ve got some panels already in place. Can these printed posters be placed over the panels that have guilford of main fabric already ?
Hey questions I did all the step u did on the video using the same program but when I export the image to the site the pixel quality always come out to 72 n I see ur is 300 no matter what picture I upload come out the same 72 any reason why tha happen
Great video!! I have been wanting to do this for my recording studio. Thanks! You got a sub with this one. Time to compare before and after with Room EQ Wizard.
Awesome I was able to do all the digital part however, apparently the company that Prince is no longer in business anymore. It sucks now I have to look for someone that is similar work. Any suggestions?
They are looking for a new supplier and materials in the forums now. That was a surprise for everyone... I'd suggest going to avs forum and following the new thread on the panels for the latest on finding a new supplier
Great looking panels, but there's an insufficient quantity of them. Maybe do some that are just plain and can vanish into the room, sort of. Also, consider what need there is for bass traps, like in the corners. There are acoustic room mode calculators on the web to help figure out how much treatment is needed and what kind to get the most out of a home theater or audio room.
I may do more down the road. But this is not a dedicated area, so was trying to make functional decorations without going overboard. Many walls won't have any treatments
Thanks for this amazing tutorial! I have a question - what size should the frames be? I have followed your tutorial step by step so should I make the frames the same size as yours or does it depend on the measurement of the image on the fabric?
The frames will be the same dimensions as your final image size. For example, if you made your image size 24"x48", the outer dimensions of your frame should be 24"x48"
I have to check this site out. I made some panels a few years ago, but they 're covered in ugly burlap, and I want to make them look good... the sites that I've seen doing printed fabric so far were pretty expensive...
@@LifeofBliss yes I calculate $17 for 2'x4' on their website, that seems affordable, but I also have to see if they ship to Europe and for how much... Else I'll keep looking for a more affordable European supplier. Thanks!
That is a good idea. I need to try this. If you make it bigger than 24x36, will that make the picture not as clear? Or can you make a bit bigger without any problems? Thanks.
Really just depends on the image quality. There are some things you can do with editing software sharpen them if the quality is lower, but I don't know much about that process. If you use that site for the movie posters, I think you have some room to increase the size a bit more without losing much quality.
What movie posters would you like in your theater??
Step Brothers, Big Lebowski, Godfather, Tommy Boy, Happy Gilmore, Scarface
I love the John wick!!!! Definitely anything marvel also!
Fear and Loathing, Snatch, Lebowski, and maybe some cool album covers.
shawshank, the good the bad and the ugly, lebowski, dark knight, fight club, usual suspects, back to the future, raiders of the lost ark, alien, avengers
Good taste. I made one of the same deadpool posters back at Christmas. Good job on the video.
This was a great tutorial. My husband and I watched it (several times) and made a few of our own last night! Thanks so much!!
Erin J hi, did you guys have any issues with Gimp crashing. I’ve tried for the past week and the program keeps crashing
@@23SSG no, I didn't have any issues with Gimp (other than learning how it is different that Photoshop). It seemed to work pretty smoothly for me. Of course, updates and processing speeds can have a lot to do with how a program handles as well. If it keep crashing, I would look into what requirements the program needs to work. Good luck!!
Erin J it was a update that I needed in order to run it. Thanks
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Do you have to be careful which material you select? You want it to let the sound pass through to the rockwool right
Wish this had came out two weeks earlier. I just spent $700 on media posters for the movie room. Now it’s time to redo all of the like this.
Great info. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks man. Good luck making up some more!
Great video. I'll be taking on this project. I'll be sure to give you a shoutout once I get it all done. :)
Excited to see what you come up with! Appreciate it Chris, feel free to email me if you need anything 👍
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Bravo! Very cool project! I hope do use this technique for my home theater in the future.
One tip for any beginners to woodworking is to assemble the frames with the holes for the pocket screws on the outside of the box, rather than the inside (as is shown at 6:00 in this video). The reason is to allow those pocket screws more material to bite into. For this project it does not make much difference, but if one was building a bookshelf or cabinet, the screws might tear through the wood and the joint could fail.
I just love this idea, hopefully I'll be making some soon for my home office.
A canvas stretcher tool would help with wrinkles and fit. Just look in the art department by the premade canvasses. I think they run about $10, maybe cheaper
Super dope panels! Your room is coming along quite nicely Kyle. The 24's look beastly too!
Slowly but surely, things are coming together 😉 thanks Michael!
This tutorial was perfect! We followed it to create our own and they came out amazing! We have videos up with our theater room with our sound absorbing posters.
Awesome video with such great details. We finished 4 posters today. Ended up spending more money than $60 per poster as the lumber cost has gone way up this year. Myfabricdesign messed up our order and took forever to deliver. All-in-all very pleased with the outcome. Thanks so much!!
Love it.. thanks for the detailed explanation. Functional & looks great. I recently visited a friends home theater & he had several movie posters in glass around the room & all i could see was the reflection of light from his screen on the glass of the poster. I had one framed with this expensive glass that is supposed to be anti-glare (i.e. see through) but in a dark room i could see a reflection so I never hung it on the wall (and spent more than what you did for all 5 panels). This is my next project for my theater room!!!!!
Ah man that sucks about the reflections you got. These things are so cool looking and zero reflection! Granted I wouldn't put a mostly white print near the front screen area cause you'd still see some light from that... good luck man! Check out the forum for more help on them too.
Just built 7 Poster panels. Followed your instructions to the letter. Shout outs to Movie Mania, Gimp, and My Fabric Designs. Awesome.
Awesome!
Like wrapping a Christmas present!
I told you, these are awesome! Big shout-out to Nick for all the help with the artwork & sizing! Now get those clouds done and revell in the stereo separation that ensues! Feel that big fat sweet spot!
I liked the video, but you get the sub because you were transparent about your amazon links. I appreciate the honesty. Many people post amazon links without being up front about it.
Thanks. I don't do it in every video, but i do mention it every now and then. 👍
Ciao .
Ti seguo dall'Italia .
Sei un grande , hai un home theatre strepitoso.
Hello . I follow you from Italy. You are great, you have an amazing home theater.
Dude this was an EPIC tutorial. Well done.
great video. was extremely helpful getting my images ready for upload. thank you
Just amazing!! Thanks for this tutorial. I have panels and was looking for a way to get posters on them
You'll get better sound absorption by using thinner pieces of rockwool and having a small air gap in between. Use scrap pieces of rockwool or strips of lumber to hold the sheets of rockwool apart. Glue them in place. I suppose you could also use bubble wrap to create the gap too. I might try that route myself if I make a panel.
There are probably several effective ways to make absorption panels. Would be interesting to see some data on the difference between the two types of panels
Hi I just found this video, I was looking to try these for our home cinema but have found most of the sites are now defunct, would you do an updated video with details of places to achieve the same ends. Thanks
Easy repeatable step by step made quick work of this. Thank you for taking the time to make this tutorial!
I liked this video quite a bit! My build is quite similar to yours. Once I get my Volts on the back wall I am going to look at acoustic treatments for the rear. I'm not sure I want to do movie posters yet... but they look great in your space.
Thanks man, definitely filled in some wall space and made it more finished looking. And helps with sound, so win win. And yea you can do the same thing with a solid color fabric of choice if you didn't want movie posters, would be a lot easier. Just make sure the fabric is fairly thin and transparent for sound!
@@LifeofBliss Any ideas on which fabrics to avoid? (from your link to Myfabricdesigns.com)
I personally do not know which fabrics to avoid, you'd probably want to jump on the AVS Forum link in the description and ask around there. Others have experimented with other fabrics I believe. Sorry!
Made one this weekend. Used pine instead of poplar to save some $, also used Owens Corning vs. the Roxul to save a little more $. Came out great, though. Really impressed with the resolution of the print on the material. Thanks for the tutorial!
Sweet! You should make a profile on AVS Forum and share your work at the link below. Which posters did you choose?
@@LifeofBliss I used this one: www.moviemania.io/wallpaper/pm80i09cf-the-iron-giant
DUDE… YES!!!! This is so awesome!
Well, I built some of these but did a few things differently and I am still waiting on my print outs to show up so I can complete them. I converted my upstairs game room into a media room a while back by adding a door and closing in a 9'x4' opening that looked out over the stairs. That room also has 4 - 34"x58" windows and I needed to close them in somehow but I don't like blinds (don't block enough light) and I don't like curtains. So a friend sent me your video and this is exactly what I needed. I built out acoustic panels per your design with the idea that I would inset those into the window frames. I have that part done. I put white cloth backing on the back and used the same insulation as you accept the outside has the reflective radiant barrier on it to help block any additional heat coming in from those windows. Those windows are on the side of the house and not visible from any angle really unless you are in my side yard so that is good. Once I get my print outs I will cover the boxes and then I plan to cut some trim to fit around the outside edges as a frame to make these look more like poster boxes. That will seal out the remaining light that is coming in on the edges and will completely block the light for my media room.
I am trying to do the same to block the light from my windows in the media room. What reflective barrier did you use for the back?
I completely forgot that printing on fabric was a thing, thanks a lot for the tip !
I love mine, they're the first thing people notice when they walk in. Don't forget to add a 'cloud' or two to the ceiling to reduce that 1st reflection point and improve the front sound stage imaging even more. Can't wait to see your REW analysis. All I have left to do is some bass management; and then start over upgrading hardware...lol
I might add a cloud, not sure yet. But I will get a video out at some point on the difference these made
@@LifeofBliss You only need a low profile 2in thick panel of OC703 to absorb the upper freq range bounce. I have 8.5 ft basement ceiling and it made a noticeable (ie: my wife) improvement with center channel dialogue clarity and stereo music sound stage.
Exactly what I was looking for! Fantastic! I'll be doing few of these on the back wall of my HT.
This is brilliant. Serves dual purposes
Great video man.. Next time I have spare time I'm going to replace my posters with these. Love your room man.
Appreciate it James. We spend most of our time down here when home, it's been a great addition
Awesome idea. I'm all over this. Thanks.
pretty cool idea and I am happy to see you using GIMP but just a hint to that, resize the canvas then you can center the poster with the function and when you add then the new layer there are two options first you can decide if it gets under or above the current activated layer, choose under and another option allows you to create it with the for-/background color so when you have black as this one just use it saves another working step
Hey, just checking in. Great video Kyle! I've always said on the forums that anyone can do these. There are always a few extra steps for things like images with white backgrounds, ones with black edges to the image and hot to align those when the border is also black, verifying image quality (can't always trust the internet image sites as most of those are already enlarged, but some are better than others, and how to handle that dream image that doesn't look up to snuff before printing). Those are more of the exception than the rule and people can head over to that forum link in your description to ask for more specific help, but this should work spot on for almost everyone. Again, great video, and everyone else in the comments, go make some panels!
Thank you sir. You have been a huge help and hopefully more people head to the forums if they have more specific questions about these. Many ways to make these to get similar (and better) results. I could only speak to one the 1 time making these. But they are definitely easy to make and should be on everyone's short list for a useful wall decoration!
You did a nice job on them. They look real good!
Awesome video, just what I was looking for. Going to build 4 of these.
Great Video from start to finish seems like it's an easy enough project to try. After seeing prices of $200 per panel this is definitely worth a try. Thanks for the great step by step explanation.
3:42 to adjust scale image as you like, you can click icon chain like
in scale windows windows ( right of the image size column, width and height),
so the icon chain like separate, and you can adjust scale image as you like
5:36 to center your layer, you can use Alignment tool in gimp ,,,
located on the right of the tool you are using ,,,
the icon like Alignment tool in office software,,,
thnks for sharing this video,, (y)
Great video, thanks taking the time to make it. I am trying to do the same but with 70's rock bands instead of movie themes. Any idea where I can find a site to upload photos?
I do not... sorry man
DUDE! You had me at MOVIEMANIA!!! THANKS A LOT!!!! :D Love you!
😊 I... I love you too... thank you for saying it first, I wasn't sure how you really felt. 😉
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks
Yeah I also built my own sound panels for my "studio," but your movie poster idea is off the hook. They're just perfect for a home theater setting. And I can see that HT room is your new favorite place to hang out, eh?
Thank you sir! Ha yea we spend most of our time down there when at home!
Great video. Any idea where to find royalty free, high res images of other things than movies? I am looking for images for my golf simulator. Thanks
*hasn't shown anything in the video yet*
"Now would be a great time to like the video."
lol
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Awesome brother your my favorite youtube home theater guy. Because of DIY.
Appreciate it bud
Add a few skinny panels on the ceiling. Helps with reflections.
Yea I may do that at some point
This is an amazing idea. Would be great to redo this video. Saw this today, but moviemania doesn’t exist and the printing company doesn’t exist. And I have an iPad 😅
Awesome looking panels! Thanks for the thorough instructions and also for using Gimp!
Thanks Benny!
Wow. Those are fantastic.
Потрясающе! И красиво, и функционально, как надо!
Pretty darn awesome. You should make these and sell them.
Thanks. Don't really have the time to make these for others at the moment. Plus it'd have to be something other than movie posters. Anything other than personal use like this could be frowned upon...
Excellent job Bliss! Great video as usual!
Thanks Chip! Appreciate the advice during the process
I haven't used GIMP in many years but with many image editing programs that has support for Layers you should be able to select both layers then use some sort of Align tool to center vertically and horizontally.
Thank you thank you thank you! I watched a LOT of video tutorials on acoustic panels, but yours was EXACTLY what I was looking for. I needed to know the best way (and best company to buy from) to put images on fabric to cover acoustic panels. Your video was a life saver. I'd post my finished product but youtube doesn't have picture comments - Ah well! Message me if you want to see them!
Glad it helped man! Send me an email with the finished product. Its on my channel page in the about section
That is the best idea I've seen in a long time, its cool brilliant and serves a purpose thanks a lot 😁😁😁
I'm not the mastermind behind it, but there wasn't a video out on doing this yet. Glad it helped man 😁🤘🏼
Awesome video, very helpful
Such a cool idea
Picked 8 posters from your suggested website moviemania.com and also used the same designmyfabric website and they arrived the other day and look perfect, nice to get the 25% discount as I'm in Canada with the weaker dollar. Time to iron them all...next step, build the frames...when I stumbled on this video, it was perfect as my son and I wanted to have posters up in the home theatre, a project idea that started a year ago but we never tackled it and I wanted to have some acoustic panels. I learned a lot from using GIMP, by the 3rd poster, it was a few minutes to edit each poster and save. Thanks for all your time here, very appreciated.
That's great, I'm glad it helped you out!
Finished 6 of the 8 posters last night and they look incredible...the quality of the images printed on the cotton fabric are surprisingly good. Happy Son, Happy Dad!!
@@renegrawey9608 awesome! That's what it's all about man... I'm looking forward to doing stuff like this with my son as he gets older as well
Thank you for the detail video.
I have flowed all your steps but the issue I am having is with size of the actual original files. I am not able to download anything higher than 3mb. I am downloading the 2500x4000. my panels are 24x48 and when I update the resolution on the GIMP app to 300 it completely distorts the image..
Anyone else having same issue or can recommend a solution??
Nice work! Seems like they are much cheaper than purchasing the commercially made version.
Definitely. A little work, but I built all 5 in one Saturday. Not too bad
I think I'm going to re-fabric the ones I made last summer with these. I had just used some basic prints that I found at JoAnne's. Doing favorite movies will be nicer. I'm going to need to play with the images a little more since I have them built at 25x49. I should be able to get the sides wrap with the image instead of just being black.
Yea I'm sure you'd be able to work something out. Could try ordering 1 print to try out then the rest after if it does. Good luck man!
@@LifeofBliss Thanks, looking at it when I got home last night I think I might make new panels that are properly sized for the movie posters and reuse the current ones elsewhere. I think it'll give me better results and I do have some spots for the old ones.
Now that you have panels up you should do a REW part 2 video that shows the effect of them. In your REW video there's some echo in the room when talking so it'll be cool to see the change.
Definitely going to do a video comparing before and after.
Not sure when or why I subbed to this channel, but I'm glad I did, I am into DIY.
Well I, for one, am glad you're here
Amazing idea
Thank you very much for the video
Dude, great job. I would like to have some for my up an coming theater room.
Awesome video, thank you, watched many times. I have 8 panels being shipped right now. What size Kreg screws did you use for this setup?
Nicely done! Sound absorption with style!
Hi
Thank you for the detailed and amazing video. I just have one question. How to choose Acoustically Transparent matter for poster printing?
This particular fabric has been used for years by the DIY community making these. As long as you have a fairly thin breathable fabric, sound is going to pass through it to be honest
Extra kudos for the spaceballs poster!
One of my favorites!
Amazing video man! Currently uploading images to the website. These will work great for my guitar and living room area.
that space balls poster is dope
One of my favorites!
Hey man. A couple years ago I used your video to create movie posters for my theater room and they came out amazing!! I am doing a golf simulator room now and would like to do the same thing with High Resolution images of golf courses and a few golfers. I am having trouble in Gimp with my pictures I guess because they are long not tall....... Any help would be much appreciated.
I think because the High Res images I downloaded arent 2500x 4000.... Any ideas where I could find some without paying a lot from somewhere like shutterstock? Thanks in advance.
Really enjoying ur tutorial. What format should I use if I want to get a landscape mode image?
Thanks for doing this vid. I was about to buy some from an acoustic company. I will be doing this myself.
Heck yea man, save some money and you get to build something!
Fantastic tutorial vid. Well done! And they turned out great!
Thanks for sharing, sir. This was a really great, informative video. I am planning on doing this for my home theater very soon!
Glad it helped man!
@@LifeofBliss Seriously, your channel has been a huge help. I am also planning on building my screen like your other video and using Carl's material with leds. Really good stuff.
With Fabric Designs no longer in business - what's an alternative supplier ?
This is a great video. Looking at the example picture that you pulled in, the pixels per inch are 300. Did you scale it from 72 to 300 prior to the video? I think that is an important step to possibly add to your video. Thanks for the help!
I didnt do anything to the image before editing it... if it didn't change automatically, I adjusted it, but I should have gone over every step... regardless, you are correct, the DPI should be between 150 and 300 to get the right resolution for printing 👍
Given how much carpet, plush couches, cushions, curtains and sound-absorbing posters you have in that room, there seems to be quite a lot of echo on your mic input. Did you add additional reverb for the video?
FYI you need to change dpi before u change dimentions when you are rescaling in gimp, or you will get wrong dimentions(like i had for the first attempts).
Wow I really love these!!!!! I believe I can use my corel drawing program to edit the files. I'm definitely gonna give it a try. Thanks for this video.
Thanks for the awesome tutorial. Only the 5th time I’ve watched it.😂
Love your home theatre setup!
Dumb question but let's say I wanted to do this for an A3 frame (or a 30x40 Ikea frame), all I have to do is follow the same steps but scale the image to 297mm (A3 width) at 3:40?
Yea as long as you scale it tow whatever frame size you will be using, you should be good
Great work man! 👍
Great video! I ordered my prints but haven't received them yet, hopefully they come. I just wanted to let you know that the print company just literally went out of business right after I placed my order. Maybe in the future you can make a new video and suggest a new place for these prints. I ordered extra but maybe down the road I would like to make some more.
I saw that on the forums... bad deal. Hope they can locate another place to get them printed soon. I need to make some more for our new place soon! That'd be a good update video for sure
@@LifeofBliss I did receive mine thankfully and I made extra just in case so I'm all set now. Just need to make the frames and mount them on the wall.
hi i just ran across this video and i was wondering what kinda of fabric was used to make them and how and where did you get them printed ?
That Movie Mania site is AWESOME...is there a video game equivalent?
Hey Kyle, and anyone else making these. Someone posted that there was a way to center the image and add the black border, without having to make a new layer. He didn't go into detail how to do it, but I figured it out. After you scale the image, and fit image to window, click on Image/ Canvas Size. Change to inches, and make it 33x48. Change offset to inches, and click Center. Change Resize Layers to All Visible Layers, and Fill With to Background Color. This step drove me crazy, but I figured it out. The Bucket Fill color that says Active background color, needs to be Black. It was white, and kept filling the background to White. Click Resize, and you'll have the poster all ready, with the black border. Then just rotate 90 degrees to upload it for printing.
Thanks man. Admittedly I'm not the best with video or photo editing. I was able to stumble my way through getting these how I wanted them, but there are some quicker and easier ways. Thank you for sharing!
It's so much faster that way, and it puts them dead center.
Very nice tutorial. I’ve got some panels already in place. Can these printed posters be placed over the panels that have guilford of main fabric already ?
Probably could, but adding fabric over existing fabric might reduce the absorption effect.
Any tips for a place to buy these pre-made? Don't really have the space to take on the DIY project
Great video just what I've been looking for my home theater every detail explains well thanks for sharing and keep up the great work
Hey questions I did all the step u did on the video using the same program but when I export the image to the site the pixel quality always come out to 72 n I see ur is 300 no matter what picture I upload come out the same 72 any reason why tha happen
When young resize it, just change the dpi to 300. That should do it
@@LifeofBliss ok from the site or from the program?
Well I meant on the program if it wasn't doing it there, but you'll want to do it on the site as well so it matches
@@LifeofBliss ok will try hope it work thankx
Great job and thanks for the information, look forward to more videos
Thanks Dwight
too bad myfabricsdesigns was closed for good, any alternative?
Great video!! I have been wanting to do this for my recording studio. Thanks! You got a sub with this one. Time to compare before and after with Room EQ Wizard.
Awesome I was able to do all the digital part however, apparently the company that Prince is no longer in business anymore. It sucks now I have to look for someone that is similar work. Any suggestions?
They are looking for a new supplier and materials in the forums now. That was a surprise for everyone... I'd suggest going to avs forum and following the new thread on the panels for the latest on finding a new supplier
Great looking panels, but there's an insufficient quantity of them. Maybe do some that are just plain and can vanish into the room, sort of. Also, consider what need there is for bass traps, like in the corners. There are acoustic room mode calculators on the web to help figure out how much treatment is needed and what kind to get the most out of a home theater or audio room.
I may do more down the road. But this is not a dedicated area, so was trying to make functional decorations without going overboard. Many walls won't have any treatments
Thanks for this amazing tutorial! I have a question - what size should the frames be? I have followed your tutorial step by step so should I make the frames the same size as yours or does it depend on the measurement of the image on the fabric?
The frames will be the same dimensions as your final image size. For example, if you made your image size 24"x48", the outer dimensions of your frame should be 24"x48"
I have to check this site out. I made some panels a few years ago, but they 're covered in ugly burlap, and I want to make them look good... the sites that I've seen doing printed fabric so far were pretty expensive...
Yea pull that fabric off and add some poster prints! It wasn't too bad for the fabric, like $15-$20 per print if i remember
@@LifeofBliss yes I calculate $17 for 2'x4' on their website, that seems affordable, but I also have to see if they ship to Europe and for how much... Else I'll keep looking for a more affordable European supplier. Thanks!
That is a good idea. I need to try this. If you make it bigger than 24x36, will that make the picture not as clear? Or can you make a bit bigger without any problems? Thanks.
Really just depends on the image quality. There are some things you can do with editing software sharpen them if the quality is lower, but I don't know much about that process. If you use that site for the movie posters, I think you have some room to increase the size a bit more without losing much quality.
Amazing idea!