How to visualize your content with photo mosaics
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Photo mosaics are a great way to visualize large amounts of content, yet many designers haven't used them since their heyday in the late '90s (example: The Truman Show poster).
Mosaics can be used a visual timeline, like this Madonna retrospective produced for Entertainment Weekly or, by importing a mosaic into Flash, can add an interactive element to the same idea like this Beyonce music video retrospective.
Visual news search engine 10x10 also uses an interactive photo mosaic to illustrate the news (more on the site here).
The aforementioned EW illustrations were created with AndreaMosaic, which is the best and most user-friendly software for creating mosaics. Simply download the free software, designate the folder of images to use, tweak some numbers and voila! — you've got a mosaic. Alternatively, IrfanView is also available for download.
There are also a few online tools for creating mosaics, including PicArtia, Pixisnap, Mosaic Maker (which also works with Flickr photos).
Or, if you just want to kill a little time and have fun with photo mosaics, there's Montage-a-google. Enter a word or phrase and the app uses Google's Image Search to create a montage of images. The service is down for repairs, but is definitely worth a bookmark.
Mosaics can be used a visual timeline, like this Madonna retrospective produced for Entertainment Weekly or, by importing a mosaic into Flash, can add an interactive element to the same idea like this Beyonce music video retrospective.
Visual news search engine 10x10 also uses an interactive photo mosaic to illustrate the news (more on the site here).
The aforementioned EW illustrations were created with AndreaMosaic, which is the best and most user-friendly software for creating mosaics. Simply download the free software, designate the folder of images to use, tweak some numbers and voila! — you've got a mosaic. Alternatively, IrfanView is also available for download.
There are also a few online tools for creating mosaics, including PicArtia, Pixisnap, Mosaic Maker (which also works with Flickr photos).
Or, if you just want to kill a little time and have fun with photo mosaics, there's Montage-a-google. Enter a word or phrase and the app uses Google's Image Search to create a montage of images. The service is down for repairs, but is definitely worth a bookmark.
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