Aral Balkan

I love trying new things with Moo cards whenever I run out of a batch.

This time around, I thought it would be fun to take one large image and break it up into a hundred small cards to create a Moo card mosaic.

I started with a lovely photo of myself as The Phantom of the Opera that Jane Dallaway took last year at my fancy dress Friday 13th housewarming party and sliced it into a hundred pieces with Photoshop. (I also applied a little Smart Blur to it to so that you would not be subjected to too much detail of my overly-magnified facial pores!)

If you want to create your own Moo card mosaics, grab this Photoshop file (.zip; 0.5MB) that's set to the correct dimensions and comes pre-sliced for your convenience. (Just do a Save for Web after adding your own picture to it and you'll get a hundred images that you can zip up and upload to Moo.)

So if you see me around, feel free to ask for a piece of me -- you might just get one! :)

Relly has a much nicer close-up of the cards than my pic (using my camera, no less, which is now her camera) :)

Comments

• What an awesome way to make a jigsaw puzzle of one of your photos! I see this being great for kids. ;-p

  by Natalie Ford on 2008-07-15 00:06:53

• I find that slightly disturbing. Don't know why.

  by David Arno on 2008-05-06 12:15:24

• Great idea, I want to do full size one now.

  by Darren on 2008-05-07 08:59:28

• Awesome :) However I liked the one with Datum on it better :p

  by Ronny on 2008-05-06 13:08:29

• Maybe you could do a picture of a picture of a picture (repeat n times) piece, like looking through a hall of mirrors... Could make for an interesting drinking game, putting it back together ;)

  by Lee McColl Sylvester on 2008-05-06 13:45:05

• For cool life-sized wall covering rasterizations, check out the rasterbator at http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ (yes, it is sfw!)

  by Daniel on 2008-05-09 14:15:48

• I added a link of my shot and your blog post to the moo minicard group on flickr.

  by alex on 2008-10-26 11:31:47

• Nice floor Aral. Is that your place?

  by Adrian Parr on 2008-05-06 13:22:36

• Heya! I tried it out on my first set of cards: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenschr/2502051615/ Worked pretty well, by they do individual color correction to every image, so it was kind of hard to put the puzzle together as the colors were screwed. They should add an option to use the same setting on all? They also did some cropping so it required a bit of guesswork... Fun though - thanks Aral! J

  by Jensa on 2008-06-05 09:26:53

• I added a link of my shot and your blog post to the moo minicard group on flickr.

  by Relly on 2008-05-06 12:53:57

• @Adrian Parr I liked his floor too. Very nice three strip you've got there Aral!

  by David Arno on 2008-05-06 14:36:18

• I don't get it, I try it with an image from my 8mp camera, and it only does a set of 4x4 tiles. How did you get it to cover all 10x10 tiles (100 cards), did you upsize the image? Anyone anyone?

  by Shane on 2008-08-11 22:00:59

• I added a link of my shot and your blog post to the moo minicard group on flickr.

  by Oriflame Üyelik on 2008-05-23 13:15:04

• Wow, this is SO cool...thank you for sharing this awesomeness! James

  by James on 2009-01-15 17:03:09

• very cool, thanks for sharing. M.

  by michelle on 2009-09-01 17:44:46

• [...] ingenious (and often imitated) Aral Balkan has a Photoshop template that’ll help you make a 100 piece mosaic of your good self. Impress clients with a small [...]

  by Better Business Cards | Freelance Advisor on 2009-09-07 09:12:23

• Cool music Aral. liked this :)

  by Oriflame Üye on 2009-11-26 20:21:05

• Aral, this is brilliant. Hope you don't mind but I used it as part of our 'Better Business Cards' piece over on Freelance Advisor. http://www.freelanceadvisor.co.uk/resources/better-business-cards/

  by Michael Rose on 2010-06-03 10:40:39