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Create Wanted Posters With Poster Forge

Martin Brinkmann — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:58:39 +0000

Wanted posters play a role in many movies about the wild west, the time of the cowboys, Indians and gunfights. Today those wanted posters serve a different purpose, often created for the sheer fun of seeing someone’s face when confronted with their wanted poster in the office, home or other location.

Photoshop savvy users can create wanted posters in no time, while lesser talented users may prefer a software to do all the hard work.

Poster Forge Standard is such a software. The free program offers to create three different types of posters with no programming or artistic skills at all.

Poster Forge is an easy-to-use poster generator. A motivational poster, a movie poster as well as a Old West “Wanted” poster can be created with its help in practically no time and totally for free! You can save your new posters and publish them on the Internet (myspace, livejournals, flickr, etc.). You can use a special built-in tool to print big-size posters and hang them on the wall.

Next to the wanted poster it is possible to create a movie and motivational poster. The way the poster is created is always the same.

The poster template is selected by clicking on one of the tabs in the header of the interface. Then, an image is loaded from the hard drive to replace the default image. This image can be moved around to fit the poster.

Then, text can be changed. This can differ depending on the selected poster. The wanted poster for instance consists of four text fields, the movie poster on the other hand of six.

The font and font color can be changed for every field separately by clicking on the font icon in the sidebar. Each change to the settings is reflected directly on the poster preview image.

The last step is to click on the save or print buttons to save the poster to the computer, or print it out directly on a connected printer.

The free version shows a powered by message in the lower right corner of the poster. The standard version can be used for all non-commercial purposes. A professional version is available for $9.95 that gets rid of the watermark and can be used commercially.

Poster Forge is compatible with most 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Downloads are provided at the developer website over at Ronyasoft. (via)

Create huge rasterized images from pictures

Martin Brinkmann — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:14:59 +0000

Every wanted to create a huge poster from a relative small image that you had on your computer ? Or are you looking for a great gift idea for Christmas for someone you like ? Rasterbator creates huge rasterized images from pictures that you either upload from your computer or select from a website. You may create those images online or download the software and use it that way. Take a look at two examples that I have selected from the Rasterbator gallery.

Once you have uploaded an image to the online script you may crop it and select the output size of the rasterized image by simply moving a slider into the exact position you want it to be. An information will tell you how many sheets of paper you need for the size that you have selected. Once you are satisfied with the size you may further customize the results by adding a border to it, selecting the dot size and selecting whether you would like a black and white image, a custom color image or a multi color image.

Once that is done you are set to go. The image will be processed and a pdf file will be created. Make sure you follow the directions of the developer when you print the pdf:

When printing the image with Adobe Reader, choose Page scaling: Fit to Printer Margins at the options window that comes up (Fit to Paper in older versions). If you chose horizontal paper alignment, also make sure Auto-Rotate and Center is selected. Most printers cannot print to the margins of the paper – these settings ensure that all the images will be completely printed.

Thanks to Hans for this nice tip.

PosteRazor Make your own Poster

Martin Brinkmann — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:05:03 +0000

This little open source application called PosteRazor might come in handy for some of you. The input is a simple image which is then cut into pieces which are then saved as pdf files and can be printed out and assembled as posters. This is a great way to produce posters, the application is able to read lots of formats from digital cameras and the usual ones of course like jpg and psd.