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January 14: Mosaic Photo Effect

THANK YOU!!! I could not have done this without your helpful instructions!!!

keepscrappin said:
Users of PSE 11 - PSE 2022 will need to be in EXPERT MODE and use the Create Function (upper right of screen) to create a photo collage. It only lets you use 8 photos though.

First you need to open 8 photos and then select Create > Photo Collage.
It does it's magic and then let's you select (double click) the layout style you want to use. I picked facebook cover because that one made the photos the smallest and had portrait and landscape orientations for more variety in the pattern later.

Next you will need to click on the advanced mode (top left of screen) so you can adjust the photos to get rid of the white borders. Once in advanced mode select window > layers. This will open the layers panel and you can make adjustments there. The photo collage function put each photo in it's own group with a photo and a mask. Click on the group name and use the arrow keys to move each group next to each other so it looks like one photo with no white between them. I did a row at a time and then moved a whole row next to the other row.

Then get the marquee selection tool and select the whole photo collage, leaving out any white border that was left when you moved the photos together.

Select Edit > Define pattern from selection and continue on in your instructions.

You may have to simplify the pattern overlay layer before being able to adjust the lighting and shadows/highlights, but that should get you to a point where they can get the mosaic. HTH :agree
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slfam said:
THANK YOU!!! I could not have done this without your helpful instructions!!!
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Oooof! Here's my slow and painful attempt at your challenge to create a mosaic photo effect.

I used 100 of the view photos I took during a helicopter tour of the Big Island to create the overlaid mosaic, overlaid on the picture of us with the helicopter in the background right after the tour.

I use The Gimp, no tutorials, the one linked by another scrapper uses a plug-in which is unstable on mac, and the other mosaic program others have suggested didn't seem to be supported for my OS....
So I ended up placing 18 guides manually, resizing 100 photos one by one, because the Gimp doesn't let you scale multiple layers at once, and placing them myself in the squares, and cropping them to square because they all were rectangular but I just couldn't face the challenge of doing math of how many rectangles I needed in my square layout (plus some photos were portrait and others landscape)
Do I wish I had so many tiny photos it looked more like a mosaic and as nice as some of the other layouts, yes. But on the plus side, I like that I can see some of the views in my tiny mosaic pics especially in the sky portion.
EDIT: as I was typing this, I had a rare brain wave and realized I could scale down the mosaic portion and copy it 4 times (man am I glad it was square and therefore easy math). So now you can't see the views quite as much, but the end result doesn't look too bad
I sure hope I fulfilled the brief and that you appreciate the effort if not the end result...



Done with Aloha Collection and Find Your Wild Bundle both by Bella Gypsy Designs
 
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Not sure where I've gone wrong but I can't seem to get my photos to resize properly/show anything of value in them when I manually resize them in the contact sheet in PSCC. They are all landscape photos so orientation shouldn't be an issue but I'm well and truly stumped. I did try using a different method (not photoshop) and got stuck there too so decided probably best to go back to the tutorial if possible.
 
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