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For this portrait of Paul Newman I used the barcodes from his line of Newman's Own food merchandise. I used the same face that is clearly printed on the front of every one of his products. Most notably, Paul Newman donates all of his profits after taxes to charity, but this good deed certainly does not make his barcodes off limits. I was unable to find enough of his food barcode numbers on the web, so I actually had to leave my computer. I ended up traveling to my local supermarket and had to copy down the barcode numbers off of the products in the store. Inkjet Print on Paper with Barcode Scanner for $495 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm) Print Information Date Created - February 2002 Date Updated - September 2008 Image Dimensions - 54.3 x 54.3 inches (137.93 x 137.93 cm) Pixel Dimensions - 23,242 x 23,242 Pixels Per Inch - 428 ppi File Size - 181.3 Megabytes File Format - Photoshop Barcodes Generated - 20 Total Barcodes in Final Image - 1,728 Hardware - MacPro G4 Tower 2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core Xeon 4 GB RAM Software - Mac OS 10 Adobe Photoshop Adobe Dreamweaver Microsoft Excel Mozilla Firefox

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