PhotoTiles: Make an image of images

there is an automator script that does the same

Get ready for the old-school geek-out. For those of you who did not shoot in the celluloid era, this is what has been used for years as a proof called a contact sheet. The roll is laid on paper, developed, and a straight image transfer results. It is a very useful way of screening images.

I have only recently started playing with this technique using Apple's built-in screensaver. You can choose an iPhoto Library to be the building blocks of larger pictures (those beach and forest pictures I had ignored as stock photos) that will "transform" into the actual image while you Mac uses your appropriate pics to make the larger picture. Really cool how it can find the right colors and hues to pull it off.

There is a great piece of freeware that DOES make those cool Photo Mosaic images that form another image... Its called MacOSaiX and it is one of my all-time favorite freeware programs. It is available here: http://homepage.mac.com/knarf/MacOSaiX/

PhotoTiles, for instance, brought to mind the ability to create those cool pictures that are made up of all of your other photos. You know, like having a TUAW Logo that is made up of 2,500 thumbnail pictures that are chosen for their hue and intensity, then placed in the proper location.

Ha ha! That’s a mosaic.

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