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Rasterbate and fill your walls with color | October 8, 2008
Scott Glenn, UW sophomore, has a 5 feet by 5 feet Godzilla action scene creeping out from behind his bed. It’s a masterpiece he created for the bargain price of $4. How did he do it you ask? A little thing called the Rasterbator.
Glenn's picture
“If you’re a poor college student, and you want to fill up your walls with art, the Rasterbator is a great option,” said Glenn.
The Rasterbator is an online program that turns digital photographs into enormous posters up to 20 meters in size. It’s free to use, and according to Glenn, extremely easy.
“You can just go to the website and upload any picture from your computer or the Internet,” he explained. “Then you crop, edit, and rasterbate.”
A PDF file will automatically download onto your desktop. Once it’s done, you simply save it onto a jump drive and take it to a print shop.
“My favorite is the Ram Copy Center,” said Glenn. “It’s right on the Ave.”
Each portion of the picture prints out onto an individual sheet of paper, kind of like a puzzle. It’s the customer’s responsibility to piece it together.
“The poster I made would cost about $40 if I bought it online,” said Glenn. “The Rasterbator is definitely a good deal.”
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Perfect kind of post for your blog. Great use of links — the sites they go to provide additional useful info, which is exactly what a link is supposed to do.
Note how clear and clean your writing is. No sentence is too packed w/ info. Each is easily digestible. Write this way when we start doing stories, too.
Minor: In this country, the concept of meters isn’t as meaningful as yards or feet. Do the conversion for your reader. And it would be a 5-by-5 poster or the poster is 5 feet by 5 feet. See Dimensions in the style book. 4
Comment by RB — October 10, 2008 @ 4:32 pm