Using iPhoto to make a &#8216;Life Poster&#8217;

Mike Matas, one of the people behind the monstrously successful software company Delicious Monster (I couldn’t resist), has posted instructions on how to create what he calls a ‘Life Poster’ using only your photos and iPhoto.

What is a ‘Life Poster’ you ask? It is basically a collage made up entirely of 98 of your best photos that you have diligently been collecting in a massive iPhoto library. Mike does give you some advice on choosing what photos to use: ‘Try to pick photos with lots of different colors. If you pick all indoor florescent light photos your poster is going to look like crap.’

Not a bad way to spend 20 to 30 minutes and $29, which is for the print from Kodak and express shipping. You can save a few dollars by going with the regular shipping option, if you don’t need your Life Poster post haste.

Mike mentions that these make great gifts, though I would recommend not trying to woo someone by creating a Life Poster consisting entirely of your head shot.

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barry

Doesn't work Applescript Error This action only runs on U.S. english Systems. (-2700) I live in the UK

July 09 2005 at 4:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

michael

I just got back my iLife poster, and while I love the poster, somewhere something went wrong. I followed Mike's instructions to the "t", but the poster came out with: 1) seven photos across with each of the photos at each somewhat cut-off 2) there was a lot of white space at the top and bottom And I triple-checked that I had the right, constrained size crop on each photo, 20" x 30" poster, seven across. Can anyone help me? Thanks so much. I love the concept of the poster, but it just didn't come out the way I had expected!

April 03 2005 at 7:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Oliver

I've been using MacOSaiX for a while now to make mosaic's of my photos and they make great gifts too. The only downside (for me at least) is that you need a ton of photos to make a good one (otherwise the base image doesn't really stand out well enough).

January 28 2005 at 4:05 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

holophile

Cool idea. Thanks for the info. I'm looking forward to the next tip - "Creating Photomosaic Life Posters with iPhoto"

January 27 2005 at 8:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply