You like that picture on your computer. but you want to put it on your wall. Wait. You want it to COVER the wall. But, it’s too expansive to print on big paper at kinkos, etc., etc. So what do you do? You use an online tool called the rasterbator.This great tool will simply take your image and make the pixels big dots. The size of the dot will depend on brightness of the poto and how big you want it to be.

To use to this online tool, just click HERE, upload your image, crop if desired, size to the number of pages you want it to be, SELECT MULTI-COLOR ON THE NEXT PAGE, and download and print the PDF. Well, then of course there’s cutting it and putting it together, etc.

So originally I had a big picture of the aple logo that was screddd and hanging from my door, shown below.

Old Entry...

But I was getting very bored of it.

So I had just made my new logo, and I decided that I should create an entry thing with my logo. I was having some problems with the software I had previously used, so I used the rasterbator this time. Below is the image I uploaded to the rasterbator.

Original Image

As you can see, it’s simply two of my logos on top of each other.

So after downloading the PDF I printed it out (turned out to be about 30 pages) and put it together… with nothing but scissors and Scotch tape. This is quite the challenge as with a normal printer there will be a border, which you have to find a way to fold over.

After piecing it I did what needed to be done: I cut the whole thing in to strips EXCEPT FOR THE TOP. Then, I simply hung it above my door and this is what I got.

New Entry

As you can tell, this one hangs much mower than the old entry, and in a cose-up, you an see how this tool really fit it to this big of a size.

Pixels to dots

The rasterbator did just what I said it would do – pixels to dots. The brightr, the smaller the dot (as more white will appear). And of course, the bigger you want the picture, the bigger the dot.

But some people go REALLY far with this thing.

Whow...

If you’re looking for something weird and fun to do with your photos, I’ve got a cool trick for you.

It’s called rasterizing.  I think.

Here’s what it does.  It cuts your picture into tiny little squares and then rounds those squares into circles. (Not the official definition.)

HUH? 

Maybe I should just show you.

Begin with a photo.

I think it works best with really active shots, but we’ll try this one.

Take a click over to www.homokaasu.org/rasterbator.  Don’t let the name throw you off.  It sounds foul, but it’s just an attention grabber.

Before you can rasterize your image, it needs to be in a file size smaller that 1MB.  If you have Photoshop, click File>Save for Web.  About half-way down the page, you’ll see constrain proportions and a percent box.  Change that percent down and click apply until you get under 1MB.

Then upload your image to the rasterbator.

After the image has uploaded, you’ll have the option of cropping it.  On the right side of the screen, you’ll see two buttons “Crop” and “Size”.  Crop indicates the size/proportions of the image.  Size means the size of what you are about to create.

And what exactly am I creating?  A multi-page image you print on your home printer.  I suppose you could send it to a digital photo lab, but the cool thing about the rasterbator is you can make HUGE images for free.

Well, almost free. You still have to buy computer paper and printer ink.

When you click on size, you can resize your image in the little grid.  Here, my image is four grid spaces high by four grid spaces wide.  That’s four by four print papers–sixteen papers.

At 8 1/2 by 11, that makes this a 34″ by 44″ photo.  Almost three feet by four feet!   That’s big. 

The next screen will ask you to set your preferences for color and dot size.  I chose the color option that uses the median color for each dot.  That makes the least amount of change to the image.  Black and white is cool too, though.

For dot size, I used the smallest, 7mm.  This will give you the least amount of distortion. 

I’d have to print the thing and photograph it to show you the result and this was just for illustrative purposes only. . .so I did it again making it one page this time.

The result is quite distorted.

The larger the output image is, the smaller piece of your picture each dot is, therefore less distortion.  With the image only one page in size, the dots were a fairly big piece of the image so it looks dotty.

But if I had done sixteen pages, you would be able to clearly see the picture. 

If that makes any sense.

Okay, Lady, what do I do with sixteen computer papers?  

Glad you asked.  You can paste them all to a board, foam core, or the wall. Or, you can buy sixteen of those document frames with hardly any frame and hang them super close to make one wall collage image.

My friend did this in her daughter’s room with a super cool cheerleading picture.  This one.

Imagine walking in to the little girls room and seeing a huge wall image of that.  It’s totally rockin’.

Maybe I can talk her in to taking a picture of the wall and sharing it with me through Flickr or Shutterfly.  Then I can add it to this post.

Eh?

Maybe?

We’d love to see it.

Pretty please. . .

It’s important to note, if you’re going to use the letter sized frames, you should crop the picture to fill only the pages.  Notice in mine it used sixteen pages but it was only on a small strip of the last four pages.  I could have cropped it to be only twelve pages without really changing the size. 

Clear as mud?

Have fun photo-fiddling.

UPDATE!

Yay!  Look, I talked her into sharing.  This is what a rasterized, framed image can look like on the wall. 

Totally Cool!

You can see that from a distance it looks like a poster.  But it’s SO much cheaper, and frankly more awesome, than a poster print of that size.

Thanks for sharing, Coco!

The Rasterbator remains a classic program even four years after it’s inception.  Check it out here and do something cool.

bu print quota + a lot of free time + rainy day + rasterbator =

goes really well with that puke green sofa

click here for a closeup. the rasterbator is a pretty fun and inexpensive way to decorate a wall. you can do color also.

-ak

One fine day on teh internets, I came across a program called the Rasterbator. It takes any image you upload [less than 1MB] and blows it up any size you want. A wizard guides you through the process step by step. When you’re done, it sends you a pdf file of  your image, blown up and made out of dots. A perfect site for all the otaku out there who don’t have money for all the posters they want. I made mine 9 sheets of paper square and posted it up on my door. I chose the 7mm size of the dots and ended up having to color it in with crayon.

Tips-Use the 10mm dot size. You don’t want to waste time coloring it in with crayon.

-Don’t use a character wearing white. It will blend into the paper.

And in other news:

We’ve gotten searches for a kagamine fansite that took people here, when we’re not a kagamine fansite anymore. [see last post] I’m going to take all the “Rin and Len Kagamine Fansite” links off of the videos, which will mean less visits but at least people won’t be confused when they see posts here that have nothing to do with the Kagamines. [Run-on sentence]

La anterior entrada sobre los mosaicos publicada por Ale, me acaba de recordar algo sobre un par de herramientas interesantísimas para tratar imágenes que existen por internet.

Se trata de Block Posters y Rasterbator son dos herramientas para crear tus propios pósters, a través de sencillas operaciones, puedes subir tus fotos favoritas y convertirlas en pósters.

El funcionamiento es el siguiente:
1 – Cargas tu imagen favorita.
2 – Seleccionas el tamaño que quieras para el póster (el tamaño se elige en número de A4 que quieras que ocupe el póster).
3 – Descargas el archivo pdf, en el que viene el póster que se ha generado con tu foto.
4 – Imprimes.
5 – Pegas el póster en la pared que más te apetezca.

Personalmente he probado Rasterbator y el resultado es excelente, un póster gigante por el precio que te cuesta imprimir los folios que hayas seleccionado. En la página de Rasterbator tenéis una galería con los pósters que los usuarios han creado.

Imagen de la galería de Rasterbator

Block Posters

Rasterbator

The Rasterbator is a free online tool that creates huge, rasterised posters from any image you upload from your computer, which you can then download as a PDF.  This one is slightly different from the last poster generator I blogged – these images are composed of dots, which produce some very cool results.

Black & White Vector Rasterbation by JessicaC

Si quieres imprimir tus imágenes en gran formato o vas a una imprenta o usas rasterbator.

Hace poco compartía con vosotros como imprimir vuestras fotos a tamaño gigante en código ascii pero hoy os presento Rasterbator que os permite convertir vuestras fotos en una macro impresión que puedes descargar en forma de pdf. Puedes elegir el tamaño que quieres imprimir la foto. Esto puedes hacerlo para empapelar una pared con un macroposter de tu banda favorita por ejemplo.

Su utilización es muy sencilla y puede utilizar la aplicación en linea o descargarte el programa (866 Kb) que puedes utilizar off-line y que no tiene los límites de calidad y dimensiones de la aplicación en linea.

Podeis ver el resultado en la galeria del programa llena de ejemplo que los internautas han impreso. A mi resulta realmente interesante, probadlo y comentad.

Tara

Cálico Bólico

Questo programmino con il nome strano, è fantastico: trasforma quasiasi foto in un’opera d’arte anche molto grande oppure una originalissima carta da parati. Il programma trasforma il vosto file in tanti pdf che poi dovete stampare e  riassemblare come un puzzle (con lo scotch oppure incollando i pezzi su un supporto o un pezzo di carta più grande).  Solitamente attorno ad ogni pdf viene un sottile bordo bianco, che io ho preferito tagliare per avere un immagine continuo, ma si può anche lasciare se siete pigri.

Si può caricare e trasformare un file online (ma c’è un limite di 1 MB) oppure si può scaricare il programma sul proprio computer qui se avete dei file più grande:

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

Ho fatto in pochi minuti 2 ritratti dei miei figli che ho appeso nel corridoio semplicemente attacando la carta al muro e queste opere hanno avuto un grandissimo successo. tutti mi chiedono sempre dove li ho fatto fare…

While surfing the net; I came across this program called Rasterbator; this lets you blow up your pictures into big dots on pieces of paper in whatever size you fancy. (The online program’s limit is 20 meters. While if you download the program it’s unlimited.)

When you use this program online; a wizard guides you through it and when you finish, it’d give you a pdf. file.

Print, cut off the extra gaps and margins, stick on wall with blue-tack and voila! A cheap poster that is easily disposable and affordable.

This is perfect for a poor miserly person like me. (This is going to be a birthday present for a friend. I’m so cheap >.<)

In case you don’t know who  is on my ‘poster’ (where were you, under a rock or something?) it is Lelouch Lamperouge from Code Geass.

Half way through printing; the red light of ink deficiency started flashing. I hope my family members won’t blame me when they find out that i used up all the ink.

Ah well, anything for Lelouch-sama~♥

Querem imprimir um poster tamanho da parede da sala…

The Rasterbator is an application which creates rasterized versions of images. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into enormous (or smaller, if you prefer) posters. Enter the online Rasterbation Gallery to see what the images look like.

The Rasterbator originated as a web application at homokaasu.org, but it has gained so much popularity that the web server occassionally cannot handle the load and a standalone version was in place.

The standalone version is the same as the web version, except that downloading images from the web and image cropping are not supported, and you have to set the output size numerically (number of pages wide/high) rather than using a fancy drag handle. The results are exactly the same.

Invader Zim rasterbated by Bryon T. Smedley

Do you have suggestions on what I could Rasterbate? Why did of all the letters and vowels and consonants and to combine did they choose this name???!

So what are you waiting for, download the program at this site, make sure that you have .NET framework 1.1 installed before you could use this bad-ass of an app.

Rasterbate! Rasterbate! Rasterbate! Woohoo! I’ll post what I’ve Rasterbated in the upcoming posts… It’ll be hot!

Today is Election Day, and your only real responsibility is to vote. Whether you’re affixing a stamp to an absentee ballot or pulling the lever in a voting booth, get out there and make your opinon heard!

But, we in the youngest (and perhaps extremely influential) voting demographic also reserve our right to party! And after all the ballots are cast, tonight is shaping up to be the biggest party night in America. So after you’ve done your civic duty, grab your friends and get ready to watch the returns with these creative suggestions:

The Setting:

Make sure you have the essentials: a television and ample seating room. But why not spruce up the space for the occasion? If you’re lucky to have the day off from classes today (as we do at my school– thank you, Fordham!), take a few minutes to make some posters! Rasterbator is an online application that will make any image you choose into a poster up to 20 meters in size. (The image will be blown up and printed out in pieces on regular 8 1/2 x 11″ sheets of paper, so you just assemble the sheets like a grid.) It’s really quick, extremely simple, and only requires the internet and a printer.

The Games

Take it a step further by printing two posters (one of Obama and one of McCain) and grabbing some construction paper. Cut out 50 squares from construction paper and label them with the names of each state. Have your guests tack each respective state onto the poster of the candidate who wins it, to keep track of election returns.

If you and your friends are rooting for different candidates, make the night interesting with a little friendly (yet apolitical) competition! While waiting for the results of the election to unfold, pass the time with a few innocent games. Ask your McCain fans to wear something red, and your Obama fans to wear blue. Play team versions of 20 Questions, Catch Phrase, or Charades. If you have outdoor space, hold a Three-Legged Race or a Tug-o-War, depending upon how many people you can gather for your party.

Not into physical exercise? It’s ok; we’re not either. Drinking games are more our speed, so grab a couple cases of beer (or some red and blue booze!) and play this game until you puke we elect a president.

The Food

There’s no better way to celebrate democracy than with some classic American grub. Fill up while the votes pile up with some hamburgers! Order out or make your own ‘Bama Burgers/ Palin Patties. And for the vegetarians among us, serve up a (Bi)Partisan Pizza Pie with this healthy recipe.

And how about some election-themed desserts? Try following this recipe for sugar cookies and buying red and blue icing. As you’re watching the election returns, eat a red cookie every time John McCain wins a state, and a blue cookie every time Barack Obama wins a state. (You can also do the same with cupcakes.) If baking isn’t your thing, why not pick up a few tubs of vanilla (or other white-colored) ice cream, and some red and blue food dye. Guests can display their party pride (or just their patriotism) with tinted ice cream.

Food, drinks and games – even if your candidate of choice doesn’t win, tonight is gonna be fun. And if he does…well, let’s dance.

Tiene su gracia, yo ya no estudio (en escuela) y me siento plenamente identificado con el texto que expongo a continuación que encontré en disenograffico.blogspot.com, blog donde encontraréis un montón de programas y aplicaciones de diseño. Programas que no he utilizado por ello no opinaré, sin embargo os escribo brevemente la utilidad y/o descripción de alguno de ellos: programas para crear salvapantallas; suite para crear intros y banners en formato flash con poco esfuerzo y sin necesidad de grandes conocimientos técnicos; “swish” programa para crear animaciones de texto para macromedia flash; programa para crear y diseñar tarjetas de visitas; programa para crear tu avatar, etc en 3D; para crear gifs animados; para crear logotipos, etc, etc, etc.

Además este blog tiene muy buenos post como por ejemplo “Panorámica histórica sobre el Sistema Operativo Mac” e “Historia del Diseño Gráfico” entre otros.

Pero vamos a lo que vamos, al texto que hacía referencia anteriormente, que tras leerlo he cambiado el concepto que tenía sobre mí mismo, ya que pensaba que yo soy como soy porque así soy, y resulta que no, que soy así por haber estudiado diseño y por ser diseñador. Quizás esto no es verdad, pero realmente hay más de una frase, muchas, que podría haberlas escrito yo perfectamente y de las cuales más de un conocido puede dar fe. Ya me contaréis si os pasa lo mismo XD.

Como saber cuando estas frente un estudiante de Diseño, Publicidad o Arquitectura:

1. Ya no te da pena babear en clase.
2. Sabes a qué sabe el cemento de caucho.
3. Pierdes la noción del tiempo: preguntas la fecha, luego el día de la semana, luego el mes y te da pena preguntar el año.
4. Peleas con tus materiales de trabajo. (DIALOGO)
5. Puedes ver fijamente a alguien a los ojos y aprobar con la cabeza sin escuchar ni UNA sola palabra.
6. Tu hermano(a) cree que es hijo(a) único(a).
7. Tu novia(o) odia a tu profesor de proyectos.
8. No sabías que ya fueron las elecciones presidenciales (todavía no son… )
9. No concibes las vacaciones como otra cosa sino tiempo para dormir
10. Te has emborrachado junto con tus profesores
11. Los auxiliares son tus mejores amigos.
12.Escuchas el Himno Nacional dos veces en el radio, sin levantarte de tu silla.
13. Haz cambiado tu vocabulario drásticamente (i.e. “tarea” por
“entrega”, “bola “por “esfera”, “gente” por “usuarios”,
“hola” por “¿y ahora qué?”)
14. No entiendes a la gente que puede gastar menos de $100mil en una papelería.
15. Odias que tus papás te digan “¡Duérmete ya!” o “SI de todas formas no vas a acabar…pues acuéstate ya ” o hasta la simple pregunta “¿Te falta mucho?” puede llegar a irritarte.
16. Puedes modelar un proyecto en Autocad, animarlo en 3D Studio, diagramarlo en Freehand y ponerlo en una página Web, pero no sabes usar Excel.
17. A tus seres queridos les da miedo usar las palabras “bonito” o “feo” en frente de ti.
18. El café y la coca-cola son herramientas, nunca caprichos
19. Te enervas con las frases: Es que tu no te organizas o Ese afán de trabajar en la Noche
20. Tienes 22 años y tienes: Tendinitis (en ambas muñecas), escoliosis, anteojos, migraña, úlcera, etc.
21. Has pasado más de dos horas viendo fijamente una maqueta.
22. Darías tu vida por una librería 24 horas.
23. Te cuestionas tu carrera 3 veces por semana.
24. Te cuestionas tu futuro 3 veces al día.
25. Al llegar al proyecto de título te cuestionas el no haber estudiado ingeniería comercial.
26. Ídem al anterior, pero aplicado a la búsqueda de trabajo
27. Tomas desayuno con tu familia y te vas a acostar.
28. Despiertas cuando tu familia come.
29. Entre los 6.000 palitos de maqueta de la librería, jamás esta el de la medida q necesitas.
30. Sabes más de la BAUHAUS que de tus Abuelos.
31. Toda tu ropa tiene restos de AGOREX.
32. La calavera de la Piroxilina, (signo del veneno) no te asusta en lo mas mínimo. Total con todo lo que has inhalado y para que del uso en ambientes ventilados.
33. La Libreria Nacional, Lápiz lopez, Homecenter, Easy, Construmart y similares son tu segundo hogar. (Deberían darnos acciones honoríficas)
34. Te demoraste todo un año en descubrir el significado de la palabra “ABSTRACTO”
35. Tu tenida de combate consta de: antiparras, delantal, mascarilla y guantes de trabajo.
36. No tienes idea de cómo llegar a La Moneda, pero te sabes de memoria como llegar hasta el último rincón de Av. Matta, 10 de Julio, San Diego, etc.
37. Tiendes a visualizar tu croquera en servilletas, individuales, boletos de micro, etc.
38. Te altera cuando un extraño utiliza erróneamente conceptos tales como moderno, lámpara, etc.
39. En más de una ocasión has ido a parar a la enfermería, por corte profundo con tip-top
40. Has andado más de 200mts. con tu maqueta en el techo del auto
41. Estás harto de la gente que te dice “yo iba a ser diseñador/arquitecto/publicista pero no me gusta dibujar”
42. Tus amigos que estudian otra cosa no tienen el mismo concepto de TAREA que tu, siempre dicen “Ay pues la haces antes de clase” o pídesela a alguien” o peor aún “Pues no la hagas”
43. Has dormido más de 20 horas seguidas en un fin de semana.
44.Puedes discutir con autoridad el contenido de cafeína en distintas bebidas y su respectiva eficacia.
45. No importa cuanto te esfuerces por hacer tu mejor diseño, alguien siempre dirá “porque no le pones esto” o le cambias aquí” o “vas por buen camino pero todavía le falta”.
46. No eres visto en público sin ojeras.
47. Cuando recibes una invitación, va seguida de la pregunta ¿…o tienes mucha tarea??
48. Eres un reciclador efectivo a la hora de hacer maquetas y flaps.
49. Has bailado “YMCA” con coreografía y todo a las 4 de la mañana sin UNA gota de alcohol en tu organismo
50.Tomas apuntes y recados con rapidógrafs, tiralíneas, estilógrafos y plumones de colores.
51. Constantemente creas excusas para explicar a tus profesores de materias que no son de diseño, el por qué no hiciste la tarea.
52. Tienes más fotografías de paisajes y elementos para usar en un diseño, que de gente.
53…alguien alguna vez te dijo “flojo” “Tu carrera es un “relajo” y quisiste asesinarlo
54. Tus pesadillas consisten en no terminar algo o no llegar a tiempo a algún lugar.
56…cuando te prestan una kilométrico, haces cara de fuchi
57 .no te importan los carros deportivos. Tu carro favorito es aquel que puede transportar las maquetas más grandes y tu compu.
58…diseñas cosas espectaculares sin tener idea alguna de su costo.
59…posees la marca de diseñador, arquitecto o publicista: un callo en la parte baja de la palma de la mano por el uso constante del mouse.
60…todos te solicitan para “un dibujito del colegio”, hermanos, amigos, primitos y todo tipo de persona que nunca te llama, excepto para “el dibujito”, que finalmente resulto ser un mapamundi con todos los estados de cada país marcados más una maqueta.
61. Toda la gente te dice cuanto te quiere y admira tu trabajo cuando hay que hacer un diseño pero…..”no hay dinero”
62. …haz conseguido la habilidad de dormir en cualquier tipo de soporte ya sean teclados, mochilas, tus compañeros, el suelo, acrílicos, comida, etc.
63. Miles de veces haz estado en un amanecer, sin embargo nunca viste uno.
64. cada vez que terminas una materia de algún programa de diseño crees que estas súper bien actualizado, pero siempre te das cuenta que hay como 1000 programas nuevos para diseñar que todavía ni conoces….
65. ..siempre tienes la idea de que tu trabajo finalmente será reconocido
66. Cuando por fin tienes tiempo para salir, tus pensamientos son “que mal planeados están los baños del restaurante”, “¿quién habrá diseñado el menú?’ o ¿quién diseñó este pelle? (el logo, el nombre, la silla, la taza o la cuchara)”
67…Cuando después de un tiempo necesitas recibir y leer un mail para concientisarte de lo singular que es tu VIDA Así es que si tienes un amigo, amiga, primo, prima, novio o novia, hermano, hermana… que estudie diseño, arquitectura o publicidad que no valore tu trabajo, ya saben por que nunca está en su casa y por qué, cuando está, siempre está pensando, hablando solo o dormido…

Rasterbator + Art = Awesome

It’s not what it sounds like.  The Rasterbator is a program that creates huge rasterized images from any picture.  It expands the picture and breaks it down into 8.5″ x 11″ pages that are printable from your own printer.  A couple years ago, I took Banksy’s “Chalk Farm Maid” and turned it into a giant poster for my room (pictured above).  The Rasterbator is a really cool way to make giant art that would normally break the bank at Kinko’s or a poster store for pennies on the dollar.  You can also get creative with the images, put them on your ceiling, wallpaper your room, have the images interact with things in your room, etc.  In summation, the Rasterbator is the perfect solution to make your room awesome if you a.) can’t afford posters and/or b.) are sick of the stock, overused posters plastered in seemingly every college dorm.  More pictures of creative Rasterbator uses and a disclaimer after the fold.

A clavier on a wardrobe.

Tastefully done and individually framed.

Stair porn and cool cropping.

DISCLAIMER: It is very easy to make the final product look horrible.  You should do measurements and lay out the placement before putting up the first piece of paper, and it will probably take you awhile, depending on how big your poster is (mine took a few hours).

¿Quieres hacer de una imagen un poster? Esto te lo permite hacer Rasterbator, donde subirás una imagen o un arhivo que ya esté en internet, le indicarás el tamaño que quieres hacer el poster, como máximo de 20 metros de lado, y te enviará un pdf para que luego lo imprimas y ensambles esas impresiones para tener un bonito mural, o la foto de la pareja en tamaño grande, ya que hoy es el día de los enamorados y esta sería una manera de hacerle un regalo original.

Para tu pareja, para impresionar a tus amigos, para decorar tu habitación, con Rasterbator podrás crear los murales que quieras a través de la web.

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

I maded you a video of my latest rasterbator creation, look…

There’s a higher quality Vimeo clip of this movie here…
http://www.vimeo.com/1324547

Make your own rasterized poster here…
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

To Raster and that also Faster, let me show you to your Master!!

No, these are no lines from an upcoming sci-fi movie, it’s just a cool thingie I looked up on the internet the other day, but just couldn’t blog earlier about. Last month’s been pretty busy travelling and doing feasability studies!!

Back to the Rasteriser!! So, you have this cute photo of you and your loved one, or this great picturesque travel photo and would like to enlarge it, say to cover up an entire wall or a portion of it…..seemingly impossible or cumbersome or expensive. Hmmmm enter the RasterBator, which can let you just that from your small office or home printer. 

Some background. Images can be of 2 types, Raster and Vector. Simply put Vector images can be enlarged without pixellating unlike Raster images. However, you could use a Vector image; pass it through a RasterBator which ratserizes the image (breaks it up into many smaller multi parts which when joined together make up your entire image). To get an idea, check out the biggest done rasterbation ever!!

I did just that with the free Rasterbator and you can see the result in my office below. Pretty Cool huh!!

The Original Picture

The Result

Seguramente todo mundo ya lo vio pero más vale tarde que nunca. Me sorprende que ya en un par de meses se vaya a cumplir el año, se ha pasado rapidísimo el tiempo. Ya hasta me deshice de las dos cámaras que usé. Las fotografías corresponden a tres sesiones distintas, de ahí la diferencia. La excusa que puedo dar para justificar la tardanza y la falta de panorámicas en resoluciones altísimas es que el día en que tomé esas imágenes hacía demasiado sol y viento, lo cual combinado con una cámara demasiado lenta, hizo que las fotos fueran inútiles en todos los sentidos. Súmenle también, claro está, mi inexperiencia. No puedo decir que no le dediqué tiempo a tomar las fotos y a intentar rescatar lo que fuera posible. Así que ahí les quedo debiendo. El sticker es obra de su(s) respectivo(s) autore(s).

Apesar do nome um tanto quanto esquisito, o Rasterbator é um aplicativo online que faz algo muito interessante. Você manda uma foto e ele transforma em um megaposter reticulado. Depois é só imprimir trocentas folhas (em A3 ou A4, pode escolher) e pronto. Rápido, legal e decorativo.

ps: No site também é disponibilizado um programinha standAlone (não necessita de instalação), sem limitações de tamanho para as imagens que você quer transformar.

via: updateordie.com

For some reason I felt like doing a post about some paintings I’ve done in the last six months or so.

“Sisters” (Theresa and Amanda)
Rasterbated photo on canvas.
36″ x 24″

In this one, aptly titled “Sisters,” I’ve started with a photo from my friend Amanda’s MySpace. From what I can tell its a professional photo that has been photographed again with a cameraphone so it could be put on MySpace. The photo dimensions are approximately 640 by 480 pixels which I’ve enlarged to about 24″ x 36″ using a program called Rasterbator. The image was affixed to the canvas using Mod Podge. This is currently hanging behind a closet door awaiting the inspiration to add paint, either black and white or color.

“Misti and Lisa”
Rasterbated photo on canvas.
24″ x 26″

Again, working from a very small camera phone image of a very dear friend, Lisa, and her friend Misti. I rasterbated the image to be as close to 24″ x 36″ as possible. This time I had it printed in color and affixed to the canvas using Mod Podge. I have started working on skin tones using liquid watercolor paint to tint additional layers of Mod Podge. After each layer of color I’ll add a clear layer of the ‘podge.

“unknown title” originally by Kurt Halsey-Frederikson
36″ x 24″
Rasterbated drawing on canvas.

This piece started its life as a 4″ x 4″ pencil drawing originally created by Kurt Halsey which I rasterbated to fit my 24″ x 36″ canvas, attached it with Mod Podge and painted using Mod Podge tinted with liquid watercolor paint. Still awaiting the nerve to finish the skintones and the “plus/cross” thing after which I can call it done.