Pixtus - Photography Forum, Photographers, Photo Tips

Tammie · **poster size -** 10-05-2009, 11:34 AM

I have a small printer and want to print out a bunch of prints to make One big print. Is there a program that does this? Either cheap or free preferably!
Thanks!

mmuhlenkamp · 10-05-2009, 11:40 AM

Do you mean you want to tile? (print small portions of the photo and then tape them together into a big print) Adobe Illustrator is the only program I know of that can do this, Photoshop doesn't seem to have the option to tile though.

CaptainTom · 10-05-2009, 12:29 PM

It's ultimately cheaper to have a poster size print made.

Compose your image in PS and send the file to

El-Co Color labs.

Sonny · 10-05-2009, 01:26 PM

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

Tammie · **Thanks! -** 10-05-2009, 02:23 PM

I wanted this done for my grandaughter to put them together to make a big poster.. What does rasterize mean anyway? I see it but I really have no clue as to what it is or does?
Thanks!

J Eddington · 10-05-2009, 03:23 PM

Rasterization or Rasterisation is the task of taking an image described in a vector graphics format (shapes) and converting it into a raster image (pixels or dots) for output on a video display or printer, or for storage in a bitmap file format.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasterisation

mmuhlenkamp · 10-05-2009, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sonny

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

Oh, I forgot about the Rasterbator!