Having a mural is really like living with a mural — you don’t ‘hang’ a mural as you do a painting or a poster — a wall mural is a living thing that takes over its immediate environment making surrounding objects fade into the visual background. It warms the room, removing your mind and your subconscious into the image, transporting you to another place.  Mural size is all important — can you imagine the lack of effect a muralist would have if their creations were the size of average paintings? Large images send stronger, louder messages than images the size of photos, posters or paintings.

Increasingly technology is enhancing what can be done with digital photos. Wallpaper and various other home decorating stores are growing their product lines of mural-type wallpapers, or photo mural products. Photo murals were rare just a few short years ago but are increasing in popularity and affordability. High tech mural products create amazing interiors that bring the outdoors inside or magnify images for intense artistic effect. Adding size to images goes beyond changing the ambience of a room; large images alter the mood of occupants entirely.

Yet photo mural products are expensive and not personal. Often costing hundreds per wall, photo mural choices are limited to stock photos that often have little personal meaning to the person that will be living with the mural.

There is a better way. As written in the blog entry “How to Paint a Mural,” the technology of today’s high megapixel digital cameras combined with the latest photo enlargement software can provide a way to construct wall murals just as billboards on the sides of highways are made – in individual image panels. This mural program allows the construction of virtually unlimited murals both in size and quantity, all from home computing equipment. Kneson Software’s mural program called YottaPrint prints personal or any digital photo for wall mural construction using any printer or plotter. See “How to Paint a Mural” for more information.