Photo mosaic
and
Photo-montage
Harmon 1970’s
Dali 1980’s
McKean 90’s
first attempt at tiling software 90’s
The photomontage
• The photomontage is a process where
multiple images are placed together to
create a finished piece of artwork.
• In a montage, the individual pieces keep
their identity as separate units, yet
contribute to the whole.
The photomosaic
• A photomosaic is the same as a mosaic,
where the image is made up of series of
pieces (tesserra).
• In a mosaic, the individual pieces loose
their identity an become part of the whole.
NASA has used the
photo mosaic process
for years to create
panoramic views from
individual satellite
photo’s.
David Hockney was
the first artist to use
the photomosaic
technique to to create
surrealist/cubist
pieces of artwork.
Other artists...
hybrid process (called montage)
• The current popular process is a
combination of both styles.
• The individual units loose themselves to
form the whole design, yet up close they
stand out as individual picture.
All one image (or tile) creating design
Different images creating the whole
Tiles of different sizes
Offset images
step 1...
• Find an image(s) that you would like to
create as a photo-mosaic.
• Find image(s) that you want to use as tiles
for the photo-mosaic.
• DO NOT USE IMAGES FROM ONLINE
step 2...
• Be sure to either find light and dark images
or create light and dark images in
PhotoShop.
• Begin to create image collection by
scanning images.
What does relative value mean?
Which image is lighter?
As the technique
becomes easier to
accomplish, it has
been seen more and
more.
In this case (and
the following
image) it has been
used to create a
narrative or as an
editorial statement.
Our version of Photo-Montage software only recognizes horizontal
images.
This means that unless you carefully consider your images, you may
loose the tops of peoples heads or other important areas of an image.
You will have to take any vertical imagery into Photoshop (or other
image editing software) and crop it to a horizontal format or PhotoMontage will do it for you.
• vertical format
• horizontal format
If you would like to keep the vertical format for detail or composition reasons,
two vertical images can be pasted together to create a horizontal image.
This will also allow more detail by sneaking in more images per square inch.
Combining several images into a horizontal format is an additional way to
squeeze more images per square inch into the mosaic.
Be aware that when you do this, all the images should be as close to the
same relative value as possible.
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http://home.earthlink.net/~wlhunt/History/History.html –
history of photomosaics *****
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http://www.isy.liu.se/elauto/cgi-bin/php.cgi/~turbell/photomosaic/ photomosaic information and downloads
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http://magnus.huckvale.net/1999/photomosaic/ - create a photomosaic
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http://www.fishsoft.co.uk/mosaic_version.shtml – photo mosaic tool download
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http://www.prismaticsoftware.com/Ghosts/Ghosts.html – ghost tilings
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http://www.claudesamton.com/ - photo mosaic landscape ****
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http://www.panmagic.com/pmgallery1.html – photmosaic landscapes
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http://www.peterhammond.com/Home.html – cool photomosaics ***
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http://www.infinite-image.net/ - photo mosaics
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http://members.xoom.it/FotoMosaico/ - free photomosaic (if you speak or read Spanish)
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http://www.barcodeart.com/art/portrait/portrait.html – barcode portraits