Category5 Technology TV - Creating Mosaic Images

Creating Mosaic Images

S04E21
February 15, 2011

Robbie demonstrates how to create a mosaic image: one big image comprised of thousands of tiny images, using free software on Linux.

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Feature: Creating mosaic images.
Sorting your photos to prepare for your mosaic image.
Creating a Pixelize database for mosaic image creation using the included make_db tool.
Setting up your master image for the mosaic, and using the GiMP to size it.
Why we can upscale the master image so greatly when creating a mosaic image.
Viewer Comment: You could do a whole show just watching the list of files scroll.
Viewer Question: Is there a way to do this in Windows 7?
Determining and setting your image dimensions for each mosaic tile so your images are not stretched or squished.
Saving your mosaic image.