#PHOTO MOSAIC PORTRAITS FREE#

On the PC, here are a couple more free apps we've seen, but haven't tried yet.įor the Mac walkthrough we're not going to use a collection of images like our first example, although with thisĪpplication, MacOSaiX you can, of course.

#PHOTO MOSAIC PORTRAITS MOVIE#

Main image and stand close to see the individual ones.Īndrea Mosaic also offers AVI to Mosaic (or movie to mosaic) so if you have any movies in the AVI format (many digitalĬameras store movies as AVI as well as many movies found on the web are usually AVI).

#PHOTO MOSAIC PORTRAITS FULL#

To get the full effect of these, it's usually best to print them out and stand back, or squint your eyes to see the The image will appear on the desktop or whatever location your original image is located. Modify the parameters or just use your image. You'll also see a preview when the processing is completed, you can close it and Feel free to change these parameters to get better or different results.Ĭlick 'Create the Mosaic' to, you know, create the mosaic. For our sample, we used the default settingsĪnd it worked out pretty well. Modifications, algorithm, movie parameters, and lines around each image. Next up, in Step 2 there are seven default values: final size, number of tiles, distance between duplicates, Image color) as well as extracting frames from a movie to make a mosaic, which you can explore once you get the hang of There are other options such as updating collections, making the photos black and white (while keeping the final Total number of images and how long it took to load them. Once loaded you will see a dialog with the

Type in the name of yourĬollection in the file name area and click Save.Ĭlick 'Load Collection,' and choose the collection your just created. We had a folder on our desktop called 'puppy' with about 150 images of our puppy. Click 'Create Collection'Īnd browse to the folder with the images. Click Find Tiles, this is where we will locate the images on our hard drive. Start the application Start > AndreaMosaic. You may need more or less than 100 images for your mosaic, but after youīuild one you can always add or remove images to get the best results. Images you'll use to build the photo mosaic. The images should all be in the same folder, but can have sub-folders within the main folder. Make sure to have a folder full of images, at least 100 or so, somewhere on your hard drive (My Documents / My Photos,Įtc.). Please feel free to post them up in the comments.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy.

We also realize there might be other and better applications that can accomplish the same thing we've got here, so Once you make these you can go to just about any print shop and have them run off a high Once we found a few free tools and made our own, we figured a lot of other people might want to make their own posters, Since it didn't tell us, we started looking around. Oil, what was more interesting to us was how they did it. While we thought the image was kinda amusing, along with the ones of Dick Cheney made of Which had a picture of Bill Gates made out of all the company logos Microsoft bought up, sued, or was sued by over

#PHOTO MOSAIC PORTRAITS HOW TO#

There are a few applications that do this for free, on Macs / PCs, and we'll show you where to get them and how to use them.Īwhile back we saw a post on 'The Future of Television,' A photo mosaic is one large image made out of hundreds and thousands of tiny images from your personal stash, from google images or even frames from a movie.

This week's How-To shows how to take just about any ordinary image you've taken with your digital camera (or from the web) and make a photo mosaic.

Photo mosaic portraits