Tutorial-Iclass1-Professional Mosaic Design Skills-Deep Division

This Steve Jobs photomosaic can not be found on Fortune magazine.
Because this is a fast sample, I use only 30 minutes to finish it.
Apple fans hate this one because I use microsoft products to create the msoaic. lol…

Someone designed another version of this mosaic, and that one can be found on Fortune magazine.
I am not allowed to post that one here, so dig it yourself and see what’s the difference.

stevejobsmosaic-microsoft-s deep division demo1

You see the power of Deep Division?

Yes, with deep division technology, we can assign smaller cells at important areas to make sure we have good quality of the whole mosaic. and assign larger cells at less important areas to make a cell with clear photo tiles.look at the eyes and nose area. the are much smaller than other places, and cheek area have larger cells, and many largest cells are used to built the background.
Dont be scared if an artist told you that he need 1 week to finish this job.With Easy Mosaic Pro Edition, you can use Few hours to finish such great design.

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Now lets start, I presume you already read all beginner tutorials and can handle easy mosaic. cause I am not going to explains the old things here.

Step1, run Easy Mosaic Pro, create a new photomosaic project, select Advance mode. 

Step2, Load your main image and cell images.  and set a proper paper size.

Step3, set a proper cell size.
The size here we have will be the largest size of all cells,  Dont set this value too small, cause it will be divided into 4 parts by level1 division, and 16 parts by level2 division, level3 results a 64 parts.

set basic cell size

Hint1: look at the cell count calculator, a number around 300 would provide us good quality, and you can try find your favorite size and count.
Hint2: In most case we use 3 level divisions. largest cell should be no less than 80×80 pixels.

Step4, Now the most important point: setup the Deep Division Mask.
The Deep Division Mask Editor is very simple, It’s kind of a brush tool. Use the mouse botton to pick a division level and the brush will choose the corresponding color, then you can start paint the areas thaat you with to use smaller cells to built.

Goto ‘Advance Mapping’ Page, and click on ‘Division Editior’,
This will open the Deep Division Map Editor, and we can start edit the map.

mosaic deep division mapping

 Now, let’s look at the Editor Interface:

editor interface

 The division area is indicated by colors. the white area means no division. the cells in this area keeps the basic cell size, and green area means 1/2 division.
for example, if the basic cell is 100×100 pixels, the cells in green area will be divided into some 50×50 pixles cell. and the blue area will give us 25×25pixles cells.

You can check ‘Show mainimage’ checkbox, and the main image will be shown below your mask image as a reference.

mask editor - mainimage as reference

After you finish the mask editing, Click ‘Apply’ button to return the mosaic project control panel. 

Step5. other render options and Start the rendering.
well, we dont talk these things, just press ‘Create Photo Mosaic’ button please.

See:

earthmosaic-withdeepdivision