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Photo Mosaic Wizard
You've probably seen one somewhere -- a photo mosaic. That is a large poster-sized picture composed of smaller pictures arranged as tiles. A while back, I thought it would be fun to write a program that creates photo mosaics. After all, I have several thousand pictures from my digital camera to work with. I was able to write a basic version of a photo mosaic creation program in a few days but I decided to rework it into a wizard that is easy to use. Of course, that took a LOT longer, plus I added some advanced features along the way. After a lot of hard work, I introduce: Photo Mosaic Wizard.
| Windows XP/Vista/7 | MacOS X 10.5/10.6 |
| If you want to install to a destination other than /Applications, download the zipped application instead of the installer. |
November 29, 2009 - Version 0.2 Improvements
- MacOS X support was added.
- JPEG images with a number of color channels other than 3 were not being read properly.
- Saving large photo mosaics caused the wizard to lock up temporarily .
- Photo mosaics are now saved to the desktop by default.
- Windows 7 support was improved so the Pictures directory is located correctly.
- The image database update phase was improved so it makes sure files are still available before proceeding to the matching phase.
- The image database update phase was improved so it can save a smaller resolution tile that can be used to greatly accelerate the image assembly phase.
- An extra image read was removed .
- The "exclude directories" feature was fixed.
- Image rotation was improved to yield better matches with source tiles.
Features
- Assemble your entire JPEG image library into photo mosaics of any size.
- Select any number of directories that contain JPEG images and exclude directories whose images you don't want.
- You can pick the number of tiles used in the photo mosaic.
- Automatically tints images to better match the photo mosaic tiles.
- Sit back and watch Photo Mosaic Wizard create your photo mosaic.
- Photo Mosaic Wizard is written for multi-core CPUs and it can use as much processing power as you can throw at it.
- Photo Mosaic Wizard uses edge detection and flesh-tone detection to prioritize its image matches so the most suitable pictures in your library are put where they matter the most.
System Requirements
- Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, MacOS X 10.5, MacOS X 10.6
- 512Mb RAM (1Gb recommended)
- Recommended processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or better
- OpenGL
How to install
| Windows XP/Vista/7 | MacOS X 10.5/10.6 |
| All you have to do is download Photo Mosaic Wizard and save it to your desktop. It is a self-contained application so no extra DLLs or intallation steps are required. | You can download the Mac Installer version of Photo Mosaic Wizard and follow the installation instructions. If you are not allowed to install applications into /Applications then you may instead download the zipped application and unzip it to your desktop or some other suitable place. Once unzipped, your Mac should automatically recognize the Photo Mosaic Wizard application and you can launch it by double-clicking it. |
Disclaimer
For my full disclaimer, please run the program and click the License button on the lower left corner of the wizard. To summarize:- This 0.2 (zero point two) version of the software can be used freely.
- The software is provided AS-IS so do not expect support per se.
- I don't think it's possible for this program to do any harm but if it did, I'm not liable.