How to create a photo mosaic

Mosaic is an assemblage of many different small images into a big image. You can use mosaic to create fond memories of your loved one by storing a collection of different photo to be used to assemble into a big photo. There are numerous photo mosaic software available, both free and paid one, in the web. I personally preferred to use free one to try out as you don’t create mosaic often except for some special occasions. I am recommending this free software called AndreaMosaic.

1. When you use AndreaMosaic, you will be guided to make a tile collection. If you happen to skip this step, choose the "Select Tiles" when you open the programme.

2. Choose "Add Folder" and you choose the folder where you store your images.
3. Click on "OK".
4. Click "Save Archive". The archive can be accessed anytime and contained your stored images. You can use that to create mosaic.
5. Watch the status till it is 100% completed.
6. Click "OK" to finish the process.

7. Click "Create Mosaic" to finish the process.

8. You are done!!

When you set the parameter, there are a few things you need to take note of:
a. Size parameter: This will determine the final quality of the mosaic. The higher it is, the bigger the size of the mosaic.
b. You can set the amount of duplication and the duplicate spacing if you have limited amount of images. The creator recommends that to check all "Tile Variants" boxes to minimise the amount of blank tiles on your mosaic.
c. The "Pattern" will specify how the image will split into tiles and the "Colour Change" will specify how the tiles can be modified to fit into the image into order to look better.
d. There is "More Options" where you can set where you want to save your file to as well as the quality of mosaic.
e. When you are done, you can see the details under "Mosaic Information".
f. The "Status" will display "All parameters are ok. :-)" when you are done with the setting. Click "Create Mosaic" and wait for the status to be 100% complete.
g. There are some recommendation on the size and the amount of photo used to create mosaic. You can read the parameters in AndreaMosaic website.