The Elusive Photo Mosaic

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Interested in making your own Photo Mosaic?

A co-programmer once invited me to her wedding. I burned my brains out thinking of a suitable wedding gift. I didn't want to give them knives (they might end stabbing each other), plates and mugs (surely they'd have enough to open a restaurant after the wedding), photo albums... a car was out of the question... SO I settled for creating them a photo mosaic poster big enough so that they can use it as a blanket on their wedding night to play under or over it. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Photo Mosaic? Well it's a big photo made up of lots and lots and lots of smaller photos. NOW this lens is about helping you attempt to create your own PHOTO MOSAIC and a THANK YOU to my Squidoo Fan Club. :-) Visit AMORSIKO.COM


"SQUIDOO UNITY THROUGH DIVERSITY" 

A TRIBUTE TO MY FAN CLUB

...they deserve more than I can offer

Fans Club... yours... mine... without them, all my lenses would be for nothing. I've learned so much from them. Various techniques, styles, layouts, grammar, words and many more helped me improve every lens I create. And for that I thank you all very much.

This is a tribute to all the members of my Fan Club. The photomosaic above is the Squidoo logo made up of all your avatars. I call it "Unity through Diversity". When viewed from afar, you'll see the Squidoo logo but if you look closely like really close you'll see your avatars.

My lens cannot display the flash presentation of the photomosaic. But you can view it here.
| Amorsiko Mosaic Article | Squidoo Photomosaic Fan Club |

View the Squidoo PhotoMosaic Fan Wall here at its normal size. It has a resoultion of 1800 by 1800 pizels at 30odpi. More close to an A4 size paper. The second link is a clickable version of the PhotoMosaic Fan Wall. Each avatar in the mosaic has a url that links directly to the lens masters Squidoo profile. Note: If you are using Firefox 3, you can zoom using this shortcut, CTRL + (scroll the mouse wheel up to zoom in and down to zoom out).
| Mosaic Fan Wall | Clickable Fan Wall |

I hope this brings all your lenses significant traffic, a backlink and hopefully a small boost in Squidoo lens rank. This is a way of saying thank you for the support you all have given to my lenses. For my lenses are nothing without you people reading them.

I'll be updating the Photographic Mosaic Wall when time permits to include the new members of my Fan Club. I hope I do justice to your never ending support.

AGAIN, MY HEARTFELT THANKS!!!



The Bare Essentials

...barely

We're going to need Adobe Photoshop for this tutorial again. Note that this tutorial comes from photoshop notes I have gathering dust bytes for several years. Let us give credit where credit is due. This tutorial is not an original (e.g | Cutting with Photoshop | Cutting with Gimp |) and was written by a photoshop guru (?) named Steve Patterson. Basically what I'm going to do is retype his tutorial.

  • No computer. No Photoshop. No Tutorial. So we need a computer. MAC or Windows, your choice.

  • To keep things simple, let us use the images used by Steve.

  • Join my Fan Club. :-) I think you know where to do this. WHY? It's a surprise and you better not scroll down the bottom.

...highly recommended software for Windows and Mac


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Looking through a Squidoo Lens

...I just changed my mind.

Hell, I just changed my mind. I'm not going to retype Steve's work. I realized that this is a Squidoo lens and lenses are supposed to direct you to relevant information. Now I just found the exact same tutorial in the net (twasn't there a few minutes ago... I swear). So let's lens our way to that tutorial and learn a very very simple optical illusion. Trust me, you'll end up shaking your head muttering your way to the kitchen "I've been an idiot not to know that".

  • STEP 1: Cropping the Main Photo

  • STEP 2: Crop the Smaller Photos

  • STEP 3-4 Open A New Document, Drag Images Into Document

  • STEP 5-7: Flatten, Desaturate, Define A Pattern

  • STEP 8-10: Create New Layer, Fill New Layer, Change Blend Mode



Dive into the World of Mosaics


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Chemical Reactions?

...oh hell, any comment would do

So my Dear Readers, was this lens of any help to you. Was it interesting? Did you like it? Are you inspired now to create you very own photo mosaics? Let me know your reactions... violent or not. And of course let me know what to do to improve this lens.

Join my Fan Club and get your Avatar and profile link inlcuded in the Great Squidoo PhotoMosaic Wall!!!



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