How to Create or Make a Free Photo Mosaic

Photo Mosaics give more life to our usual photos which make them great gifts for our family and friends. Making photo mosaics is free using Andrea Mosaic.

I’ve always loved photo mosaics as they bring so much life to photos. Photos themselves are great but photo mosaics bring them to another level especially when photo mosaics are big.

My previous photo mosaics have all been done by other people mostly by photo or imaging shops. I usually give them the main photo and the photos which would compose the main photo (called the tiles).

With the free software AndreaMosaic, you can make your own photo mosaics easily. Just download it on the link I just provided and install it.

  

AndreaMosaic is completely free and DOES NOT require an active internet connection to be able to create photo mosaics. Other free photo mosaic services needs to be online and you must upload your picture to their server.

 

Steps to Create a Free Photo Mosaic:

1. Launch AndreaMosaic

After installing, you should be able to launch AndreaMosaic without any errors.

 

2. Indicate the Main Photo for the Photo Mosaic

Drag and Drop the photo file which you will use as the main photo for your mosaic. You can also use the + button located at the top.

Once you’ve successfully selected your main photo, it should be shown in the application.

 

3. Choose the Photos that will Compose the Main Photo

We should now select the pictures or photos that would compose the main photo. These small photos are usually called Tiles

i. Choose Select Tiles located at the bottom

 

A new window would then pop-up. 

 

ii. From there select Add Folder. Select the folder containing the pictures you want to put in your main photo. You can select multiple folders by using Add Folder multiple times if the pictures you have are located in different folders.

 

The folder should be listed at the middle pane if it is successfully selected.

 

iii. Once you’ve selected all the folders containing the pictures you want, choose Save Archive located at the top right. 

 

AndreaMosaic would now analyze and compile the images in the folders you’ve selected. The progress would be shown at the bottom.

 

iv. Once the analysis and compilation of the images are complete, a new window would pop-up asking you to save the archive. Just indicate any filename you want.

Once it is saved, the pictures and not just the folders should now be shown. 

 

Click Ok to go back to the main window.

 

3. Input your Desired Settings

You should now input your desired settings in making your photo mosaic. Things like the Size Parameters (size of the main mosaic and the small pictures), Tile Duplication (settings of the Tiles that would compose your main mosaic), Pattern, Color Change, Tile Variants can be set. If you can’t understand a particular setting, just hover your mouse over the setting you don’t understand and an explanation would appear.

The flexibility of the options depends on the number of Tiles or pictures you have selected. The more pictures the better. 

 

If the parameters you’ve set have not created any errors, the Status indicator should state that All parameters are correct. If it does, click Create Mosaic.

 

The bigger and the more pictures the mosaic has, the longer it will take.

 

Once the mosaic is finished, AndreaMosaic will ask you if you want to view the photo mosaic created. You can then view the result there.

 

Below is the result of the mosaic I did. It was reduced in size because I just want to show you how it generally looks like (the picture is just 10% of the original size)

 

There you have it! I hope I’ve helped you create or make your own free photo mosaic – Thanks to AndreaMosaic!

(If you want to be able to make a free photo mosaic in Mac OS use MacOSaiX)