anyone know anything about digital wallpaper?? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

fugue_life · 01-27-2005, 06:47 PM

Hello, so I recently purchased a home just outside of seattle wa. I have this one room that will be the game room and i got this idea that I saw years ago on hgtv or something along those lines. The people took a photo of there famliy or something and had it converted to wallpaper so one wall was a huge photo. now there family was very unattractive and the wall looked stupid, but hopefully i won't repeat that mistake but i can't find anything about it anywhere and when i called a few wallpaper places they just scratched their heads. So since we TFP-r 's are such a diverse crowd, thought I would see if anyone could help...

iamnormal · 01-27-2005, 07:08 PM

Look in your local yellow pages for print shops and sign makers. See if any do "large format printing" "wide format printing".
Talk with them to see if that will work for wallpaper. I'm not 100% sure but I think thats what you are looking for.

Rlyss · 01-27-2005, 07:17 PM

I'm not quite sure if this is what you mean but you might want to check out this site: http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ Basically you get the original photo and use that site to convert it into a huge rasterized image. It converts it into a .pdf file, print them all out and you can get something like the examples on the site. If you decide to try this, please, whatever you do, cut off the white borders around each page!

I've done this twice myself and ended up with with posters about 3m by 2m, covering the entire wall.

Stiltzkin · 01-27-2005, 09:24 PM

Rasterbator! That site rocks. Here's another thumbsup for the Rasterbator.

fugue_life · 01-27-2005, 11:32 PM

not exactly what i was looking for but that site is pretty sweet

01-30-2005, 07:57 AM

Very cool! Thanks for the link! I'm going to rasterbatize my favorite Bob The Angry Flower comic strip: http://www.angryflower.com/innerl.gif

But wait, maybe the text doesn't look that good...

Slavakion · 01-30-2005, 01:38 PM

Rasterbate yourself a giant eye. It'll make for some interesting converasation with visitors.

01-27-2005, 06:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
fugue_life Insane Location: under the stairs	anyone know anything about digital wallpaper?? Hello, so I recently purchased a home just outside of seattle wa. I have this one room that will be the game room and i got this idea that I saw years ago on hgtv or something along those lines. The people took a photo of there famliy or something and had it converted to wallpaper so one wall was a huge photo. now there family was very unattractive and the wall looked stupid, but hopefully i won't repeat that mistake but i can't find anything about it anywhere and when i called a few wallpaper places they just scratched their heads. So since we TFP-r 's are such a diverse crowd, thought I would see if anyone could help... __________________ ba-weep=gra=na-weep-nini-bon?

01-27-2005, 09:24 PM	#4 (permalink)
Stiltzkin Junkie	Rasterbator! That site rocks. Here's another thumbsup for the Rasterbator. __________________ The most important thing in this world is love.

01-27-2005, 11:32 PM	#5 (permalink)
fugue_life Insane Location: under the stairs	not exactly what i was looking for but that site is pretty sweet __________________ ba-weep=gra=na-weep-nini-bon?

01-27-2005, 07:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
iamnormal Addict Location: In the id	Look in your local yellow pages for print shops and sign makers. See if any do "large format printing" "wide format printing". Talk with them to see if that will work for wallpaper. I'm not 100% sure but I think thats what you are looking for.

01-27-2005, 07:17 PM	#3 (permalink)
Rlyss The Pusher Location: Edinburgh	I'm not quite sure if this is what you mean but you might want to check out this site: http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ Basically you get the original photo and use that site to convert it into a huge rasterized image. It converts it into a .pdf file, print them all out and you can get something like the examples on the site. If you decide to try this, please, whatever you do, cut off the white borders around each page! I've done this twice myself and ended up with with posters about 3m by 2m, covering the entire wall.

01-30-2005, 07:57 AM	#6 (permalink)
PgUpPgDown Guest	Very cool! Thanks for the link! I'm going to rasterbatize my favorite Bob The Angry Flower comic strip: http://www.angryflower.com/innerl.gif But wait, maybe the text doesn't look that good...

01-30-2005, 01:38 PM	#7 (permalink)
Slavakion Mjollnir Incarnate Location: Lost in thought	Rasterbate yourself a giant eye. It'll make for some interesting converasation with visitors.