Tired of having to go to the photo store each time you want your pictures developed? Too poor to own your own dark room? Do you still use a dot-matrix printer? Ran out of photo paper for that urgent portfolio?

Solve it all using over-the-counter blueprint paper and glass cleaner (Windex in this case).

Nope, we haven't quite completely flipped out yet as the process that we are about to tell you about is completely plausible, you can try it right after reading this article.

The process requires you to suspend the sensitive side of your blueprint paper over a pan of glass cleaner. The person who originally came up with this idea used a styrofoam lid as his pan, and a cake cooling rack to put his paper on so that the glass cleaner fumes will still go straight into the blueprint paper.

True, your pictures aren't exactly going to be in full-color, but you do get them in this really funky monotone purple. Very vintage!