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StevenWallaby
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 Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:34 pm Post subject: Mosaic Project |
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I am trying to create a digital template for a physical project I am working on creating. It is a grid of wine corks of different saturations/brightnesses that I want to arrange into 'pixels' to create an image in a large format. I am trying to figure out how to manipulate an image in PS to let me change it into a grid of circular 'pixels' of a pre-determined amount of brightness, say 10 levels from bright to dark, in a honey comb style layout, where the circles are off-set every layer. (I hope this makes sense.) Anyone understand or know how to help!?!?!? Thank you so much.
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MadMike80
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 10:18 am Post subject: |
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Try this:
http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/download/
It's a fairly simple freeware program, but it shall get you in the right direction... just put all your differently exposed/colored wine corks in a folder and load it.
Worked great for me, made some mosaics of a marriage shoot of approx. 2000 small images of the whole day, with a kissing pfhoto as the "main image", printed out 90x60 cm... beautiful!
Good luck!
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StevenWallaby
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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This actually might work! Thank you so much! I'll post my findings.
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MadMike80
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Hope it does the trick, i'm curious what you will make of it!
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StevenWallaby
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It totally worked! I thought at first with how DIY the program looked that it would never solve my problems. How wrong I was. After some tests, I made my "tiles" out of 1" circles (same size as the end of a cork roughly.) I found that I had to increase the size of the picture to get the kind of detail that I wanted and also had to go from 6 levels to 11 levels from light to dark. (100% white, 10% black, 20% black, 30% black...100% black) I also set it up so that each layer was staggered to get the kind of arrangement the corks work best in. Here's what I came up with:
http://www.tangentmediagroup.com/share/brian/Salvador_Dali_Cork_Grid_FINAL_11_Levels_Numbered_WEB.jpg
(make sure to zoom in)
I will have to sort 5502 used red wine corks into 11 different bins from new cork color to the darkest red/purple to achieve the effect.
This will be 7" tall when I finish it and will weigh a ton I'm sure, but It's gonna make quite a decoration for my office.
Thank you so much for your help!
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MadMike80
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Hi steven!
Just now i get your eventual point.. thought you was gonna make it in PS only, but you're really going to get 5500 corks and pin them on a "painting"... I think its a genius idea! It will sure look terrific!
please post a picture when it gets finished, I imagine it will take a while to drink out all the bottles for the corks  . I hope it doesn't smell too much like wine in your office when you put it up!
Glad i could help you with it!
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I really dig your idea, and i thought some more about it, but it's gonna be a heck of a job to sort 5500 random colored wine corks into 11 colors. you will get color variations even after sorting 15.000 corks, and throwing 10.000 away which differ too much in color. (different wines, different ages a.s.o.)
Maybe coloring 5500 brand new identical corks, bathing them in watered down aquarelle paint gives you more control over the color, and reduces the wine smell in the office 
Good luck!
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