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via Timeless Tales by Deepak on 3/29/10
For a newbie, making a poster isn't an easy task to accomplish. While a professional can do a whole lot of image editing with Adobe Photoshop or an alternative to make a nice flashy wallpaper or Poster and then print it to his/her desired size. A poster making requires a big size scale of about 3600x4800 cm size. By default even the most image editors doesn't come with such scalable big size. And theres no end to such long list of shareware poster making tools. While the most shareware poster making tools comes with lot of features to play with. But still, just only for making a poster you have to cough out a hefty price of $30 to $60.00 for these commercial poster making tools. I have listed 7 free Poster making tools here, which includes all the necessary applications, right from designing a poster to printing it. These pack includes free poster making tools, poster printing tools and a poster trimmer or razor to scale the poster to a small size for printing which can be later put together to make mega poster size like that of movies. With such freebies in hand, making a motivational posters, wallpapers, collage photo albums at home, office and work place has become so easy. The best thing about these pack is that they come with simple straight forward interface and very easy to do approach. If I were you, last thing I'll do is put together all those money you were thinking of spending on those costly softwares to upgrade my computer hardwares like a laser printer and scanner combo. Look at the list.
Poster Forge Standard
Poster Forge is a software program for quick making of professional looking posters practically without any efforts and totally for free! It contains predesigned templates for creation of inspirational, motivational, movie or old west "Wanted" posters. Special built-in free version of poster printing utility ProPoster - allows you to print your own huge size posters and hang them on the wall. Why not to put your creative ideas in your posters and amaze your friends and colleagues? Or why not to use your new posters in the internet profiles or in the blogs?
Picture Collage Maker Free
Picture Collage Maker Free is a simple-to-use Windows freeware that turns ordinary photos and pictures into stunning keepsakes to share with family and friends. With just a few clicks, you can create digital collages, scrapbooks, posters, invitations, calendars, and greeting cards.
Posteriza
Posteriza is a software application for designing all kind of posters, banners and murals. It's very easy to use, it have been designed with inexperience users in mind, so everyone can create a customized poster in seconds. It allows printing posters of any size, as big as you want (imagine your favorite photo resize to 10m2, covering all the wall) even you could add text to make it more spectacular. Don't need to install, just download
Easy Poster Printer
Easy Poster Printer enables you to print posters of any size (max 20x20 meters) with a regular printer. Just drag n drop your picture into the application and click print. Easy Poster Printer comes with a Windows Shell Extension that allows you to see thumbnails of your posters in Windows. This ensures that it is very easy to locate your posters in Windows for later use or sharing. Easy Poster Printer uses the latest technologies from Microsoft .NET, which ensures you a wide compatibility.
The Rasterbator
The Rasterbator is an application which creates rasterized versions of images. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into enormous (or smaller, if you prefer) posters. Enter the online Rasterbation Gallery to see what the images look like. The Rasterbator originated as a web application at homokaasu.org, but it has gained so much popularity that the web server occassionally cannot handle the load and a standalone version was in place. The standalone version is the same as the web version, except that downloading images from the web and image cropping are not supported, and you have to set the output size numerically (number of pages wide/high) rather than using a fancy drag handle. The results are exactly the same.
PosteRazor
The PosteRazor will cut a raster image into pieces which afterwards can be printed out and assembled to a poster. As input, the PosteRazor takes a raster image. The resulting poster is saved as a multipage PDF document. An easy to use, wizard like user interface guides through 5 steps.
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