Convert Digital Pictures to Vinyl Wallpaper

“How do you convert a digital picture to a vinyl wallpaper that can be installed on a wall in your home?”

Take a look at a program called Rasterbator (nice name), it’s a free program that will let you convert digital pictures into photo wall murals to cover the entire wall if that’s what you want. Basically the program turns your picture into many different sheets of printing paper and you print all of the different pieces of your picture and put them together on your wall, sorta like a puzzle. The only real draw back ink usage, but it’s still a lot cheaper than getting it professionally done.

Here’s how the online Rasterbator works:

Step 1 – Choose a picture to upload.

Step 2 – Upload an image from your computer by clicking “Browse” or find a picture online. There’s a size limit, your picture cannot be more the 1 MB in file size.

Step 3 – Crop and size the image, this is where you can cut and crop the image by dragging those little squares in each corner and the sides. The “Crop” button is where you can cut out portions of the image. Click on the “Size” button to easily drag your image into a specific size, each block of rectangle represents a piece of paper. Pick a paper size, there are four choices, A4, A3, US Legal and US letter. You can also choose a Custom size in “mm”. On the bottom you can see how many sheets will be needed and the size of the image in “cm” and in “in”This is the part where you play around and adjust everything till it’s perfect.

Step 4 – Set rasterbation options, the next step gives you some options such as borders, colors, and dot size.

Step 5 – This is where your image gets rasterbated and spit out into PDF format which you save on your computer. Now you just open up those PDF files with a PDF reader like Adobe Reader and print out each picture and stick it to your wall.

There’s also a desktop version for downloading. The desktop version has no size or resolution limits, now you can Rasterbate offline.

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