Have you ever seen these photo mosaics for celebrities or movie posters and wonder how they did that? Well, its time to create your own. Now that you have your photos scanned to a digital format, choose a photo you want to use as the main picture for your mosaic and lets have some fun.
Here is what you need to accomplish this:
- all your scanned photos from Scanapix along with any digital pictures you may have taken.
- a computer
- download this free pc program Andrea Mosaic
The Andrea Mosaic software is easy to use. It may take you a couple tries to perfect your final mosaic and become a mosaic expert, but the effort will all be worth it.
Here is a photo I took on a nice gloomy day in London that we will use as the main mosaic photo.
Here is the ‘Let me just try it out as soon as possible’ step by step tutorial.
- Put all the pictures you want to use for the mosaic into a folder that is easily accessible.
- Open up the Andrea Mosaic software
- Choose the image you want to use for the mosaic where it says original images
- Click on ‘Select Tiles’ at the bottom. This will open up another screen
- Click ‘add folder’ to choose the folder with all the pictures in step 1.
- Click on the button that says ‘save archive’ This will make a folder in your computer saving all the photos you are going to use.
- Now you are back at the original screen. Click on the button ‘Create Mosaic’ at the bottom left of the page.
Results:
I used a folder with all of the pictures I had from a trip I took backpacking in Europe. There was a total of 613 images. This is what the mosaic looks like without messing with any of the options from the software.
You can tell that the more photos you have, the nicer the mosaics will turn out. But if you do not have that many images, you can still maintain a high quality mosaic by making adjustments to the tile variations.
If you need more detailed information about the software, Andrea Mosaic’s site has a very detailed tutorial.Visit the software website tutorials by clicking here.
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