Here's a little Memorial Day Weekend parting shot email tip for you to play with if it gets rainy in the next few days, and you're stuck inside.
The Rasterbator is an infamous website which allows you to blow your own picture up to 20 meters in size. The quality of the images is up to you and will depend on your paper and printer...
How does it work?
The folks there transform your pic into many, one page PDF files and send them back to you. You then print out the images and piece them together. This is how they put it:
The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size.
Simple, right? Think of all the things you could do with this. Outside of the rather limited selection of image that they have on file, think about AT'ers doing faux headboards, curtains, any type of decorative motif, like columns, or working with color to piece together a really beautiful pic of a forest scene or landscape. We'd love to host a rasterbator contest for interiors...
>> To get started just head over to http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
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Finally AT does a piece on this wonderful site!!! They turn out much more classy and "adult" than you'd think!
view aladywhoknows's profile
very nice!
view sugarpond's profile
Its not the first time alady. Thanks to AT I've used the site for over a year now.
view Sara48's profile
Infamous, why? Also why does "The Rasterbator" link back to this page?
view mgn's profile
If only the folks behind Rasterbator had a functional Mac version.
view Devyn's profile
This is also incredibly easy to do in Photoshop for those that have access to it. It's called "Color Halftone". The trick is to convert it to grayscale and resize it first, but it works like a charm.
view Jeremy In VA's profile
I prefer ProPoster as it doesn't halftone the image. It's more complicated than rasterbator, but gives much more control.
view Shane_'s profile
I used Rasterbator (hate the name) for my Cinco de Mayo/Kentucky Derby Party a month ago. These worked great to add some tacky but fun decorations to our party. I also made a huge picture of a horse and put it up behind the bathroom door which was a fun surprise for my guests. This was a very classy party if you didn't get that.
http://picasaweb.google.com/jessicagulish/TresDeMayoFestival/photo#5199764183692676562
http://picasaweb.google.com/jessicagulish/TresDeMayoFestival/photo#5199764252412153330
check out the jockey in the background
http://picasaweb.google.com/jessicagulish/TresDeMayoFestival/photo#5199764381261172274
Happy rasterbating.
view JessG's profile
Yeah, what is this "finally" doing a piece on them? It's like about once a week or so since I've been reading AT, and every time, they pretend it's some big revelation or well-kept secret.
view K T G's profile