What is photo mosaic
What is photo mosaic
Think about what gift to makefriends or relatives, or want to make something original in decorating your home's interior? Photomosaic will serve as an excellent solution in situations like this, will remind you about happy moments of your life, besides enliven any wall. So what is a photo mosaic?
Photomosaic - it is an image that consists of hundreds of small pictures together one whole image components.
In order to make a successful photo mosaic, photos are selected that match each other in terms of color and tone to create a whole image.
To get a simple photomosaic, you needfrom 200 photos and 1 large clear base image, under which elements will be selected. But still, the optimal number of photos is from 1000 and even 2000 photos. It is necessary to take into account that the more you pick up photos, the fewer repetitions you will find in a common photo.
The most popular size of small photocells in the finished photomosaic is from 1.5 to 3 cm, when each photocell can be viewed without significant distortion.
The size of the finished photo can be completely different: from small (30x40 cm) to very impressive (3x1.5 m).
It is not difficult to make a photo. Now on the Internet you can find quite a large number of companies that will make it to order. If desired, the printed canvas is sent by post or courier. Usually it takes several days to order.
But there is a more economical option - to come up withidea and implement it yourself with the help of a variety of useful programs (for example, Mosaic creator). You can print the finished photo at home and in printing houses. Usually this is a large-format printing on photo paper or on canvas in photo quality.
You should know that if you use special programs, the waiting time for generating the final photo can be from 10 to 30 minutes, with the weight of the final file up to 1 GB or more.
Here are some more tips:
- the clearer the photos for the photocells, the better the picture will be in general;
- the more photocells, the less in the photo-image will be "color noise", distorting the overall image;
- Reducing the "color noise" can also help reduce the size of photocells to 0.5 cm;
- if the photos are not enough, you can use photos from other sources of similar themes;
- it is better for a basic photo to choose a clear image without a background.
