Rasterbation - It’s Not What You Think! It’s Cooler!
September 15th, 2007 | by Ginnie | (Visited 41,550 times)
First off, get your mind out of the gutter, we’re talking about something different here! Ever seen an amazing image on the internet, or a scene from your favorite movie, and wished that you could have it on your wall? There may be pictures or art out there in the malls or shops, but none of them are economical. Large wall art can cost hundreds of dollars, not in the college student’s budget.
So what to do?
Well, Gasmaster over at The Rasterbator, shows us how!
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 including poster printing and putting it on your wall).
Enjoy!
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
For additional effect, space the papers slightly apart from each other - the effect against a contrasting wall is awesome!
Here are a few of my personal favorites I’ve found so far:
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Very cool stuff. I’ve always wanted to do one for my office….but I can never decide what it should be of.
http://www.blockposters.com/
Much easier
Thanks for the link Lee! I can’t wait to try this on a few of the photos I’ve wanted to have on my wall forever
It’s a cool thing, but there is a reason prints cost 100’s of dollars at stores because it costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time for an artist to produce an image. As a fine art photographer myself, I just want to say that printing off someones image for your own use is stealing, and will make the artist not want to share his or her new work with you.
Well, to everyone else’s defense though.. There are many ways to trademark and image.. from a watermark to many others.
When putting works online, there has to be a careful balance so that neither party is taken advantage of. For example, I write poetry and run a poetry submission site, and I know first hand that many of my works have been stolen and repurposed as someone else’s
But at the same time, I did little to secure them like placing them in a flash file that could not be copy + pasted, etc. At the end of the day, it’s a risk an artist has to take I suppose..
As an artist and photographer myself, I have no problems with someone taking my work so long as its for personal use. It actually gives me a sense of pride when that happens.
What I do have a problem with is when my work makes it into products which gets sold for which I get no compensation for.