Dave's Favorites: Rasterize Your Photos at The Rasterbator
In the world of computer graphics, there are two broad classes of pictures: raster images and vector images.
Vector images are built from resolution-independent geometric structures like lines and curves; if you enlarge the image, the lines and curves get recalculated on the fly so you never see jagged edges.
Raster images, however, are the stuff of bitmaps and pixels. Enlarge the image, and the pixels just get bigger. That's usually a disadvantage, but some people find highly exaggerated raster images artistic. In fact, many digital image editors even include a raster filter that accentuates your picture's pixels and makes it look like a highly magnified newspaper photo.
Using The Rasterbator, you can easily process your photos with a rasterizing filter that gives it a newsprint look while also tiling it across almost any number of sheets of paper. Assemble the photo into a poster, tack it to your wall, and you have an instant piece of modern art.
Not only is The Rasterbator free, but you don't even have to install it. The program runs on a Web server: Just upload your photo to the site, select a few simple options, and the picture is downloaded to your PC as an Adobe PDF file that you can print on your own home printer.
One caveat: There are a lot of sample pictures on the site, uploaded by fans of the program, and some of them are a little on the racey side. You might want to exercise some discretion with this site.
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