If you’ve got a bunch of pictures from a special occasion, then you might want to do more than share them on Facebook. Using Google’s free Picasa editor (a favourite among Lifehacker readers), you can easily create a life poster with the best images.
At Project Woman, blogger Helen Bradley outlines how to use Picasas’s Collage feature to build a life poster (a concept first popularised by Apple’s iLife package). As she points out, square images tend to produce better results; you can either crop them yourself or let Picasa handle that automatically. We’ve detailed a similar strategy using Irfanview in the past, but as several commenters on that post noted, Picasa does automate the process much more effectively.
Cool Photo Apps #3 Create a life poster [Project Woman]
Kato
August 12, 2009 at 4:59 PM
So a “life poster” is just tiled images?
Report PermalinkJon McCluskey
August 20, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Just be sure to set up your poster at the intended print size at a resolution of at least 150dpi. 300dpi will provide optimum results.
Saving your file as a jpg (no compression – use the highest setting) will ensure a smaller file size, without losing quality.
I’m sharing this information for entirely-selfish reasons. I work for a poster printing company, http://www.posterprinting.com.au , and it makes me cry every time people send through fantastic designs, at an unprintable 72 dpi. Garbage in = garbage out!
My friends, please take the time to do it right and you’ll get a killer end result.
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