Sports Mosaics

I beg to differ ... I usually crank out about 30 of the same image with 30 different settings until I get it fined tuned to where I like it. There are a lot of options, at least in the program that I use. I want to retain as much as of the detail images as possible, while coming out with a best representation of the source image. If you're just ripping it on the fly each time -- although you may get a decent image -- you're not getting the best one you can.

I guess we can compare that to Program mode vs. Manual.

The one I use has a lot of settings but it's mosty just different boxes that can be checked. I can specify:
- Output size and resolution
- It's got setting such as repeat an image?
- If so, how often and how far apart. Can they be rotated? flipped? mirrored?
- How detailed do you want each tile to be?
- How may tiles per row?
- All landscape, all portrait, varied (1L to 3P, etc)

Now what does make a difference is your photos that you start with. Are they all the same size? Are they cropped tightly? etc

I'm still fine-tuning the image that I posted. a 3x2 ft canvas won't be cheap so I want to make it as good as possible. I printed a test image of 11x17 and it's getting there. From 10 feet it looks like a regular photo. From two, you can make out the individual tiles. I'm going to set my teacher assistants loose on it. I'm going to have them crop each photo to 4x6 and VERY tight to the subject. I figure it will take about two weeks (hopefully).

Yeah same set of options, it also have colorizing and calculators for fixing ratios and sizes. The minimum distance before repeating, is also a setting that I fiddle with a lot.

The one area that I wish would improve is -- I have been struggling with having to export everything to the size I want, than sort by dimension, than eliminate the ones going the wrong way. I don't think my program can handle both horizontal and vertical images.