Aug
15
2009
Fill a Photo with More Photos
Author: adminA photo mosaic is a picture made up of many smaller pictures. The smaller file images can be seen up close, but at a distance, an entirely different image can be seen. Photo mosaics are also referred to as photo montages, photo-tiled pictures and photo tapestries.
Robert silvers is the creator of Photomosaic software technology. His company, Runaway Technology, produces many of the famous Photomosaics you may have seen in magazines, ads and posters today. The Photomosaic technology invented by silvers is patented in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe and Japan and the right to use this process is vigilantly monitored and protected.
In the U2 concert in 2005 Vertigo tour, during the song ONE, they showed a collage of faces from the audience up on one of the big screens above the stage. The faces kept filling the screen, getting smaller and smaller as if a camera was zooming out, and then all of a sudden you could see that all tiny faces from the audience were making up a moving image of Bono’s face as he was singing…at it was all live!
Today, personal computers are powerful enough to create photo-tiled pictures in a relatively short amount of time. And despite the patents of Runaway Technology, there is a lot of free and inexpensive software, as well as Web-based tools, that you can use to make a photo mosaic image from your own collection of personal photos. The larger your collection of source images, the better your photo-tapestry will turn out. The following page has has more information about photo mosaics as well as links to software and online tools you can use to create your own photo tapestries.