| Photo Mosaics are actually a very new invention, | | | | photo mosaics. |
| believed to be first created in the 1990's. Photo | | | | There are several ways to create or obtain photo |
| mosaics have become widely popular around the | | | | mosaics. |
| world, though, for their unique appeal. | | | | The first method is tedious, to say the least. Using |
| A Photo Mosaic is a photo made up of many smaller | | | | photoshop, or any other editor, you can manually cut |
| photos. To say it another way: A photo mosaic is a | | | | and paste images together to create the larger |
| photo that has been divided up into small squares or | | | | image. This technique is very time consuming, though, |
| rectangles. Each rectangle is the replaced by a | | | | and there is really no need to employ this method. |
| separate photo that closely approximates the color | | | | The second method is to use photographic mosaic |
| the rectangle was. | | | | software. There are many versions of free software |
| A picture is worth a thousand words in explaining | | | | that can help you much more easily create photo |
| what a photo mosaic is like, though. Go to Google | | | | mosaics. Of course, there will be at least a short |
| Image Search or Yahoo Image Search and search for | | | | learning curve, but most are not too difficult to use. |
| "photomosaics". | | | | The third and final method to obtain a custom photo |
| One of the first creators of photo mosaics, Robert | | | | mosaic is to pay a professional photo mosaic designer |
| Silvers, patented the production of and name | | | | to create on for you. This is obviously the most |
| photomosaic. However, Mr Silvers patent does not | | | | expensive option, but it will probably also give you |
| give him the exclusive rights to make photo mosaics. | | | | the highest quality finished product. |
| There are many companies around the world using | | | | Really, it's all up to and what you need and want! |
| various methods and technologies to legally create | | | | Happy photo mosaic-ing! |