Digital Interactive Mosaic Event: Snuggle ‘Bear Your Heart’ in NYC


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Colorization: Pro-tips For Your Photo Mosaic

A mosaic example of two girls.

Throughout our 12+ years of photo mosaic design, we’ve managed to fine tune the elements required to create a “true” mosaic. One thing we’ve learned: it’s not easy. After toiling away with the existing photo mosaic software, we decided to create our own and we never looked back. A common shortcut we’d find is heavy colorization and source ghosting. Let’s dive into the specifics of each and how they can make – or break – your photo mosaic.

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Intel selects Picture Mosaics to feature its mosaic technology at IDF 2015 Skylake press event

Intel picks Picture Mosaics’ app to show off its new Skylake i7 processor at the 2015 IDF press event! Picture Mosaics’ new 4K video mosaic technology optimized for Skylake to be featured in more upcoming Intel events. In front of the new demo are Joe Charpentier, VP of Engineering, and Al Charpentier, Founder and CEO.

Joe Charpentier, VP of Engineering, and Al Charpentier, Founder and CEO, standing in front of the 4K photo mosaic video technology

At Picture Mosaics, we’ve spent the last 14 years pushing the boundaries of photo mosaic design in every way imaginable. We were honored to partner with Intel and present at the IDF 2015 press event in San Francisco! We were tasked with putting together a demo using our latest photo and video software to push the new Skylake i7 processor to its limit. Continue reading

Digital Interactive Mosaic Event: Verisign at RSA Conference


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Unique Handmade Mosaics by Kevin Champeny

A handmade mosaic of a skull, by Kevin Champeny.


I’m going to take a bit of a detour from photo mosaics for a moment to talk about a really unique mosaic artist. Kevin Champeny is a New York artist whose work straddles a variety of artistic mediums to create large, mosaic-esque sculptures. However, in contrast to the traditional style of mosaic creation, using existing items to create a larger image or object, the smaller pieces of the mosaic are handmade by Champeny.

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Digital Interactive Mosaic Event: U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team


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How-to: The Perfect Photo Mosaic

A Photo Mosaic of a lily.

Our Online Mosaic Tool makes it super easy for you to create free photo mosaic using your photos in just a few clicks. Just upload, design, and create – it’s that simple. Here are a few simple tips and tricks to really help your photo mosaic to shine.

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Junk Mosaics: Making Something Out of Nothing

A junk mosaic of Steve Jobs, created by Jason Mecier

What do you do with your old electronics? Throw them out? Donate them? Sell them? San Francisco artist Jason Mecier does the unexpected: he uses old electronic “junk” to create amazingly textured mosaics. His work is the perfect example of mosaic art in the 21st century: using broken, fragmented pieces of our everyday lives as a form of artistic expression.

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Mosaics By The Plateful

Molly Hatch's Ceramic Saucer Mosaic


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Pixel Mosaics from Pantone Swatches

I’ve posted about artists who re-work classic pieces of art with a fresh perspective, breathing new life into images we’ve surely seen dozens of times. I especially like it when artists incorporate mosaics into their approach. Nick Smith is a London-based visual artist and interior designer who focuses mostly on screen printing and has most recently created a series of work using Pantone color swatches.

Nick Smith's Mona Lisa Pantone Swatch Mosaic

 

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