Photomosaics

A custom photomosaic of one or more pictures of your choice can be made using a large number of your own digital pictures. A photomosaic uses small versions of your own pictures chosen carefully to approximate the small fragments of the full target image.

From a distance the target image will be clearly recognizable if enough small images are used. Usually the final image should be at least 16x20 inches, but 20x24 or 20x30 is better. As you increase the number and variety of the images available the results can be improved, so the more images you have to better the result can be. If you have a relatively low number of personal images, the variety can always be increased by using travel pictures in the Studio MarcoAngelo database as used in most of the samples shown here.

The following examples show some low resolution samples of what photomosaics look like. Each mosaic is made out of 24 tiles horizontally and 32 tiles vertically for a total of 768 individual images.

Girl on beach on island of Bonaire:

Brunelleschi's dome at the duomo of Florence, Italy:

Eiffel Tower:

A Unique Gift or Keepsake

A few years ago these types of photomosaics were popular at art stores and recently they have appeared in a couple of advertizing campaigns on television in an animated form. Our service not only allows you to pick the target image to be approximated by the photomosaic, but even better is that it will use your own digital pictures to form the mosaic. For example, a large picture of your children made up of a whole bunch of small pictures of your childre, family members, events, trips, or whatever else you have in digital picture form, for example, is priceless and unique. Your friends and neighbors are very unlikely to have such a keepsake.

Suitable Target Pictures

Since the small images can only approximate the larger target image, it is best to limit the amount of detail in the target image. So if you want recognizable pictures of people or places, they should take up most of the image and not contain too many small critical parts. More than three or four faces of people would probably not work very well unless they take up nearly the entire picture.

We can generally tell from a picture how good a target image it may make and if there is too much detail or the faces or other recognizable items are too small. The picture can, however, be cropped to concentrate on the most important part to omit extraneous information.

Additional Examples

Click here to see one example in detail zooming in on some details to eventually see the small tiled images in full detail.

Click here to see an example of using more and more images in the database to more accurately be able to represent a target image.

Click here to see the effect of using smaller but more numerous images in order to capture more resolution in the target image.

Click here to see the effect of using a greater and greater variety of small images to better represent the larger target image.