# How do they make photomosaics - or large picture made of small pictures ?

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**Created:** [November 20, 2002, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-make-photomosaics-or-large-picture-made-of-small-pictures/137814 "2002-11-20T22:41:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![andy\_fl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@andy\_fl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andy_fl)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-make-photomosaics-or-large-picture-made-of-small-pictures/137814/1 "2002-11-20T22:41:15Z")

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[http://www.photomosaic.com/](http://www.photomosaic.com/)

How do they make those photomosiacs ? Its almost like the next stage of ASCII art.

Are there any plugins to do this - like Gimp ??

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**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-make-photomosaics-or-large-picture-made-of-small-pictures/137814/2 "2002-11-20T23:00:36Z")

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Not a good answer follows:

I know that a few years ago I got a flyer in some software I bought - the company also made software that would make these photo mosaics from your own pictures. Due to my bad memory, I can’t remember the company that made the software - maybe the makers of MGI Photosuite?