Step One: Preparation     

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    When constructing a photomosaic, it is important that you preserve the integrity of the smaller pictures being used.  To do this, you should save the pictures using maximum quality and maximum memory.  I saved all of my small pictures as TIFF's (I did, however, use the suggested settings under the TIFF options).  You should then save the large image as big as you would like the final copy to be (a round number for the width is preferable).  Then you should choose a size (change only width and mark the constrain proportions box) for the smaller pictures.  My large image (seen on the previous page) was ten inches wide so I decided that my smaller pictures should be .5 inches.  This made it so that I could use a round number of pictures across the larger image.  Real photomosaics use more than twenty pictures across, but this didn't really matter because of the technique I used   I had only about 20 - 30 small images to work with but the more the better, because that means you won't have to reuse as much.  Remember, when you save your large and small images the size you want them, save them as different names than the originals, just in case.  Now you're ready to go to Step Two.
 
 
 
 
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