How To Make A Family Picture Poster!

1. Choose Your Photo - Take a look through your family photos and wedding photos to pick what you want for your wall! There are so many options!

2. Go to http://rasterbator.net/ and click “Create Your Poster” and upload the photo to make into a poster. For this effect a sepia overtone and a quote in the top right corner of the image was added.

3. Design - Once uploaded, play with several options for sizing and spacing. The lettering is “US letter” for in the example. Then, you get to play with how many 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper you want to make up your poster. The more squares, the bigger your poster. The site calculates everything for you

4. Download - When you have your poster just the way you want it, you can click “rasterbate” and voila! It will create a pdf file for you!

You can print from home, or have it done professionally at Staples. Using the file from the site, They printed 9 pages onto card stock for this example. Once printed, it looked almost like a canvas! The total cost was around $8.00 for the copies.

6. Mount It - The Staples worker placed the copies on foam board as she sent it through a large lamination machine. She then with great precision (and precision is key!) cut each page. Refer to the picture for how they looked mounted and laminated.

7. Put it together - Place each piece where you want it to go. Decide how much spacing you want between each piece. You could place them together to create a unified poster or add space for a more artistic look.

8. Hang it up - you can use Scotch Removable Mounting Squares to place the pieces to the wall. They are just the right size AND they don’t damage the wall!

9. Space it Right - keep each piece exactly straight and have even spacing. This is one of those projects that if aren’t detailed in your measurements – you will be able to tell! To help keep the spacing just right, you can use the edge of one foam board between the two pictures like in the example.

10. Enjoy! And there you have it! An amazing poster-size wall decor of a picture! Think of the possibilities! This could be a whole wall in your house or a little nook that you don't know what to do with!