The Elusive Photo Mosaic

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!!!

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.

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