: How was this mosaic graphic of Jimi Hendrix created? I found this image long time ago, even if I search with the google images search I could not find the creator to ask him/her how this

@Vandalay110

This can be done, semi manually, with reasonable effort. In illustrator do this:


Take the image you want to make mosaic of and run Object → Object Mosaic...


(optional) reduce the color depth in Photoshop before this step
(optional) reduce pixel size in Photoshop before this step
(optional) make a gradient strip on the image for easy value order selection

Find a suitable swatch with patterns
Ungroup object (and delete image from behind)
Start selecting colors with the magic wand tool (adjust tolerance to suitable values) and assign a appropriate swatch. (this takes a minute or two. It is pretty fast if you took the time to make the strip and have the swatches in weight order)




Image 1: A quick test of concept. Ideally i would have needed a bit more swatches good enough for a second try at 4 minutes per job. Image courtesy to John McClumpha. Selection strip above, delete after use.

For multiple different levels do this for 3 different grid sizes and delete some grids to reveal the one underneath. Its relatively easy to automate this, but not a big deal to do by yourself.

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@Candy945

The Scriptographer community has created some options to create a similar result. Scriptographer support ends at CS5, so none of the new fancy stuff allowed.

Take a look in the raster scripts area and test out a few to see what you can get.

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@Correia448

It looks like a photo mosaic made up of patterned tiles instead of other photos. I remember this being a really popular thing to do a few years ago. A quick search came up with this link for you:
www.brighthub.com/multimedia/photography/articles/34691.aspx
It has a bunch of software links to do this sort of thing.

I seem to remember seeing a tutorial on pstuts or some other tutorial site. I'll see if I can track it down.

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