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I'm an interior painter and I can tell you, the best painters tape I've ever used is 3M's 2080 Painters Tape...

http://www.tapecase.com/p.616.177/3m-2080-3m-scotch-safe-release-painters-masking-tape-for-faux-decorative-painting.aspx

It occasionally bleeds, but it has NEVER ripped any fresh paint off the wall. It leaves a clean finish with straight lines. My recommendation is really the brush you paint with; get a good one. I recommend polyester brushes because they cut down on paint strokes (brush marks). When you have a good brush, painting along the tape line will stretch the paint out. When you use a cheap brush and the paint globs in certain areas, it will bleed. Even today I take paint off trim and it bleeds slightly, but go back with your brush, dip the tip of the brush into the trim paint and just use the very end of the brush to clean a straight line over the bleed spot.

I dig this entire place - very calming but fun design!

Awesome job! How did you "boil" the image down in Photoshop? I know how to pixelate an image, just stuck on the "boiling" part. Thanks!

I don't have pictures of it but we also did it in a commercial job. We did the wall purple (matte) and the company's logo in semi gloss. Turned out great.