Mosaic
iaian7 » blog John Einselen, 2.11.06I’ve been working recently on a project that needed a mosaic. I tried using Photoshop’s mosaic filter, which was absolutely horrific. It can pixelate an image into geometric blobs, but certainly nothing close to the beauty of tiny little squares arraigned along the curves and lines of a picture.
Other options were sought for, but not found. And so, it was drawn by hand. Black ink to surround the black tiles, red ink for everything else (since the red channel can be used in Photoshop to derive just the black, and the difference to get everything else). I developed a dent on my ring finger (now a nice little callus), not to mention plenty of cramps and pains. Probably due to poor pen holding habits; I just don’t do this often enough!
The result doesn’t seem too bad. Not terribly photoreal, but the project style is supposed to be illustrative. A lot of tweaking and texturing to do before it’s really finished, but this is what it looks like so far.
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Two words: Good Grief.