HowTo: Free and Huge custom poster for your wall
Feb. 5th, 2007 | by Aibek |Here, I want to quickly illustrate how to create, huge(up to 20 meters), awesome looking, rasterized wall posters using previously mentioned Rasterbator. It’s free and easy to use piece of software and the whole procedure won’t take you more then 5-10 min(not incl. poster printing and putting it on your wall). Enjoy!
IMPORTANT: This procedure uses considerable amount of ink and if you don’t set printing setting to a moderate level it will kill your cartridge.
Steps:
1. Get Rasterbator: You can either download it from here or use its web version. Although, keep in mind that online version puts some restrictions on output size and resolution
2. Run rasterbator and select source image
3. Select paper size and alignment: The rasterbated image will be automatically split onto several pages, so you need specify the format of each unit paper(A4, A3 etc) and its alignment(horizontal or vertical). If you plan to print poster yourself then make sure to select paper format supported by your printer(ex; A4)
4. Define output size: Output size is defined by the amount of papers to be used for image width or height. For instance, you can tell rasterbator to produce a poster with a width equivalent to 12 horizontally-aligned A4 papers(see poster below).
5. Set rasterbation options: Specify color and resolution settings
6. Select output directory and press Press ‘Rasterbate!’
7. Done: Print it and put it on your wall
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how did you glued it on the wall?
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is that a motorcycle parked in your room?
What’s the image you are using, I’m sure I’ve seen those guys before.
it’s from the movie; the boondock saints
The poster is cool…but that crotch rocket ruined it.
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Nice BIKE!!!! And nice poster I used to have a huge one of wayne static on my wall.
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Awesome! The Boondock Saints FTW!
people, that’s not my bike, neither it’s my poster. I wanted to illustrate how good it can look.
Although, now I feel like showing off my Ducati along with mine rasterbator creation. As soon as I get matching frames, I’ll post it on about page.
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You don’t really need Rasterbator!
Upload an image from your computer and choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be; Once you’re happy with your selection, you can download the PDF file containing your newly created images and print each one massively blown up, resulting in a huge poster to stick on your wall …
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Very cool. Your article was quick, simple and to the point.
I did this with a giant Chuck Norris picture. we put it up with some tape and alot of staples directly into the wall. This method was not particularly clean for our walls, but has lasted a really long time (been up over a year).
איך ליצור במו ידיך פוסטר ענק מכל תמונה…
תוכנה בשם Rasterbator לוקחת תמונה רגילה והופכת אותה לפוסטר ענק….
GET RID OF SNAP! IT’S ANNOYING! Oh, and cool idea.
wow!
long time searching for something like this!
but how can i do this point effect with photoshop?
please help me! thank you
thanks Hank, actually you’re a 2′nd person telling me that. Next week I’ll run a poll on it . If majority votes against it I’ll remove it.
is that a couch and carpeting in your garage or do you always park your motorcycle in your living room.
Awesome! I made one this afternoon and put it up on my wall with blutak (man that was a lot of blutak…) Thanks for spreading the word!
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Very nice I’m gonna try this when i get home lol
All I need know is a good picture..
To bad you had to print a picture from such a stupid movie about right wing religous nutt jobs shooting anyone who they think is a sinner. Horrible. Shame on you.
@skippy:
refer to comment above
Just tried to print a picture of winston churchill (black and white) mostly black. 6 X 4 A4’s. Printed 12 pages then my ink ran out!
Looks god so far… gona invest in more ink tomorrow!
Great software, bit harsh on the ink. Any one know any tricks on reducing ink usage?
Gotta love the Boondock Saints!!!
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How do you stick the prints up without the ink running
from the paste you apply to the back of the paper ?
love the concept but not the picture.
how does it work for MAC’s?
@sylvia: You don’t need a Mac Version…if you use Photoshop you got an option in the output settings for printing to create tiles posters…same for PC, but there you got the program ;)…
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Hey Skippy,
You’re a ****nut.
Dude! AWESOME! Love the saints!
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really nice poster!
The saints are awsome, the pic is great. And for those of you who don’t like the movie… re-watch it with an open mind…. shame on you for only picking up the obvious.
great toy…
used to do these for the loft i lived in a while back….
as for the boondock st’s, they weren’t right wing religious anything.
they were a couple of irish guys who got fired from their meatpacking jobs, so they decided to start killing mafia guys for cash…
not because they were sinners, but because no one would really give two big turds about a bunch of mobsters getting offed.
take off your blinders…
hate the movie for it’s premise of casual violence, and ron jeremy cameo, as opposed to some right wing agenda your medication helped you imagine….
personally, i agree with the previous awesome except fr lame crotch rocket, but thats a personal bias against crotch rockets.
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how’d you get a high res image??
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You’re an emo douche who parks his motorcycle in his room.
razta: if you’re printing a lot of black stuff, just use black colored paper already bought from a stationary shop.
to all you idiots who think that thing is glued. WTF?? since when do you glue paper to walls? ever heard of blue tak?
whats that poster/picture from?
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cool site man, i dig it
I wonder if ironing the backs of prints on walls would transfer? It would make a good base for a mural if it worked.
Thanks for the cool tutorial 8^)
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craigeth: Wouldnt the printer still print the black parts of the image? How would you let the printer know your using black paper and not white? Cant seem to find anything in the printer settings.
@razta
if your printer came with custom software try looking there. You may also check out download section on manufacturer’s site, maybe they have something for this.
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Leave the guys picture alone!!! He didn’t put i up here saying “look at my awesome picture choice” he put it up here to show what you can do. If you don’t like the picture, DO ANOTHER ONE!!!
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Aqui, tu Puedes encontrar como crear, enormes ( MAS DE 20 METROS), paresiendo asombroso, un gran poster mural usando software RASTEBATOR. Es gratis y facil de usar, escoger las piezas y el montaje del mismo, no te llevaran mas de 5-10 MINUTOS. DISFRUTA…
Wow nice .. will check this out nw.
How to keep the resolution intact !! I have 1600×900 image and its coming kinda hazy …
da printer is fine tho.
K i ll check some settings in da mean time.
I don’t there is a direct way to keep resolution intact, at least not with ratserbator. However reducing dot size(in settings) leads to higher resolution. Make sure you got lots of ink though before you do that
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How did you get The Boondock Saints picture greyish, what tools dod you use? I’ve used the rasterbator before but that is with colour. Please reply.
@wolfie
I am not the one who printed this image out. There is a link to the authors’ profile next to the image. He can be more helpful with this. Although, grayish effect can be achieved by choosing light black color as a base color for rasterbation.
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Brilliant! I wish I had this in my first year of uni, this is any art appreciating students dream, free giant posters of anything you like, class.
Very cool! I only wish that the program had a name that you could say out loud without fifteen people turning around and looking at you…
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Cheer up, emo kid
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I have just printed my own picture out, its great. However, does anyone know how I could print this out using the inserts for a cd. It would still be letter sized paper however the margins would be reduced significantly. My goal is to print this off, slide them into CD Jewel cases, and then hang the CD jewel cases on the wall. Just trying to do something a little different. Any thoughts?
Been there, done that. I used to print multi-panel posters like this using strips of fan-fold paper in a dot-matrix printer twenty years ago.
where the hell you get these high ress pictures
how did u stitch those papers to the wall
some king of tape, or glue
@Bobbydacron
Sounds awesome… Although, I am not sure how this can be done. Check out if rasterbator (or similar) provides custom option for paper format option (A4/A5/ etc.). If it does, then simply entering CD-box side lengths as paper size parameters should do the trick.
@hurahey
It’s not my poster… I think I would use glue.