How do you make a single picture made up of a photo collage of different pictures?

Hi guys. I've been searching all over the internet, what do you call this art? Let me explain more clearly. I've seen this so many tiems yet I dont know what it's called. I'm pretty sure it's computer generated.





A photo (for example Brad pitt's face picture), and this photo is made up of tiny pictures of let's say him and angelina, him and jennifer, a picture of their house etc.. yet all those pictures when combined looks like his face?





SOO HARD TO EXPLAIN!??!?!?!? IF ANYONE GETS WHAT I'M SAYING GOOOOD!





what do you call this and how do you make this?How do you make a single picture made up of a photo collage of different pictures?
This technique is called Photo Mosaic, and a similar effect was used for the Marketing of ';The Truman Show';.


It is simple with a program named ';AndreaMosaic';, available here: http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/








Download and install Andrea Mosaic.





Make sure to have a folder full of images, at least 100 or so, somewhere on your hard drive (My Documents / My Photos, etc.). The images should all be in the same folder, but can have sub-folders within the main folder. These are the images you'll use to build the photo mosaic. You may need more or less than 100 images for your mosaic, but after you build one you can always add or remove images to get the best results.





Start the application Start %26gt; AndreaMosaic.





start





In Step 1. Click Find Tiles, this is where we will locate the images on our hard drive. Click ';Create Collection'; and browse to the folder with the images.





create





We had a folder on our desktop called ';puppy'; with about 150 images of our puppy. Type in the name of your collection in the file name area and click Save.





save doggie





Click ';Load Collection,'; and choose the collection your just created. Once loaded you will see a dialog with the total number of images and how long it took to load them.





loaded





There are other options such as updating collections, making the photos black and white (while keeping the final image color) as well as extracting frames from a movie to make a mosaic, which you can explore once you get the hang of making mosaics.





load





For now, click close.





Next up, in Step 2 there are seven default values: final size, number of tiles, distance between duplicates, modifications, algorithm, movie parameters, and lines around each image. For our sample, we used the default settings and it worked out pretty well. Feel free to change these parameters to get better or different results.





params





Click ';Create the Mosaic'; to, you know, create the mosaic. A new window will appear along with a status of image processing. You'll also see a preview when the processing is completed, you can close it and modify the parameters or just use your image.





finished





The image will appear on the desktop or whatever location your original image is located.








Movies


Andrea Mosaic also offers AVI to Mosaic (or movie to mosaic) so if you have any movies in the AVI format (many digital cameras store movies as AVI as well as many movies found on the web are usually AVI).





Other applications for the PC


Centarsia.


Rick and Steve's Photomosaic Program.





Let me know if you are running a mac, there are programs available for that too. Namely; MacOSaiX.


Available here: http://homepage.mac.com/knarf/MacOSaiX/Download.html





Hope I could help!How do you make a single picture made up of a photo collage of different pictures?
http://imagemosaicgenerator.click42.com/


automatically makes mosaics of your photo
Its actually a photomosaic (or also photo montage or photo collage) and there are several tools that you can either purchase online or use with your photo software to make.





http://www.aolej.com/mosaic/compare.htm





This website has a comparison of several different softwares and sharewares.