Thursday, February 11, 2010

Design Your Own Mosaic Using Facebook Pictures

Create an even better mosaic with hundreds of Facebook photos if possible.


With so many pictures, Facebook allows you multiple albums and organization options, but the social media site offers little picture effects, like creating a mosaic collage with all your Facebook photos. A mosaic combines smaller images into a larger image, like a collage of photos. However, free programs exist to design such graphics, or if you have Adobe Photoshop, you can use automated tools like actions and droplets to create the miniature photos necessary for a mosaic tiled image.


Instructions


1. Find at least 20 to 30 pictures on Facebook to make into a mosaic. Create a folder to save the photos to.


2. Find the image that you want to create with your Facebook photos, such as Mona Lisa or Mickey Mouse. Open the image in the graphics program. Create a new document that with the same dimensions as your image.


3. Download and save filler photos from other photo albums of friends, family or other photos if you need more images to create the mosaic. Look for photos with colors that your own Facebook photos are missing. Organize these photos by color the same as your Facebook photos.


4. Resize and crop your photos to 25-by-25 pixels. Copy all of your images into the new document that you created earlier. Drag the pictures to fill every part of the document. Once finished, flatten the image or save as a .PNG or .JPEG to merge all the layers.


5. Copy the original image that you are creating the mosaic for and paste as a layer on top of your Facebook images. In the layers palette or blending options, choose "Overlay" or "Hard Light" to blend the two together. If your program does not have blending options, use an online picture overlay editor, such as ImageEditor to blend the two.


6. Save your mosaic and upload to your Facebook album.







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