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Mosaizer is more than just another photo mosaic creator !
What is Mosaizer?
Mosaizer is a photo mosaic creator with and extensive set of exclusive tools to create great photo-art painting effects.
What can you do with Mosaizer?
You can create photo art. Mosaizer is an extensive set of bitmap editing tools such as patterns, colored patches,
masks and filters and it basically use a large number of pictures to work with. And yes, you can of course make photo mosaic
From a distance: the full picture and at close-up individual the sub-pictures can been distinguished pictures.
Who use Mosaizer?
Anyone can use Mosaizer. Although it's a professional tool, creativity is not an exclusive domain for professionals.
Is Mosaizer unique in it's kind?
Not entirely. Many photo mosaic creation and bitmap editing software is available, but Mosaizer adds some unique features you can hardly achieve with existing bitmap editors.
Why is Mosaizer freeware?
Mosaizer is freeware because we believe that creativity is free.
Characteristics of Mosaizer 6
A photo mosaic is a picture which is built from hundreds or thousands of smaller pictures.
Each of these smaller pictures has a certain color impression, and when looking from a distance the original source picture is recognised.
If looking from close-up, the individual pictures can be seen.
With Mosaizer you can make such photo mosaic pictures. But Mosaizer can do much more that just that. The key features are:
Mona Lisa was rebuilt from pieces of her own bitmap)
With transparent bitmaps the boundaries between sub-pictures can be manipulated and masks to create invisible boundaries between sub-pictures and allow for smooth picture overlaps
John Lennon was made from just one picture where practically only lightness is varied picture
Every sub-picture in this Robert Bateman drawing has a black boundary of the photo mosaic
Some examples with Mosaizer
Examples of the key features are shown on the right.
From top to bottom: the use of the 'mosaizer' tool with the madonna of Edvard Munch
The original and mosaized pictures were merged;
using an alpha mask for a photo-mosaic
Smooth transitions between sub-cells with masks to create transparency on the edges of each sub-picture;
photo-realistic euro's
Only masks are used - and bit filtering with use of an alpha mask and a source-mask;
and the use of a 32-bit alpha mask
No real photo-mosaic, but 3D-'art' with 32-bit masks in combination with a shadow effect.
Other features of Mosaizer 6
This overlay creates a partially transparent watermark effect, 32-bit masks and patterns
From left to right the chosen library matches better with the source color palette function to quickly assess the color matching capabilities of a certain set of pictures
What's new with Mosaizer 6?
With Mosaizer 6 a new level of photo mosaic creation versatility has been achieved. A major addition in Mosaizer 6 is the application of a Genuine Paintbrush
The paintbrush behaves like a realtime pencil and eraser tool.
This paintbrush literally paints with pictures. The result of any photo-mosaic picture can be repainted (or painted from scratch) by using the mouse or any other pointer device.
All effects (masks, filters, random settings, etc.) are applied in the paintbrush feature. Even more, any desired change in effect can be applied in the same drawing.
The painting takes place real-time (depends on the speed of the CPU) and wrongly drawn lines can easily be erased and redrawn later.
Textaizer 2: the other application from APP Helmond
APP Helmond has developed another application, called Textaizer. This application creates pictures from text, a method that is usually referred to as 'Text Mosaics'
From a distance Shakira is recognised, but at close-up the text can be read.
Textaizer can also create text from pictures. This is widely known as 'ASCII Art'
ASCII art is widely used as an e-mail stationary.
On the web there are many programs that can make ASCII art, Textaizer however combines both text mosaic creation and ASCII art.
Textaizer also offer a unique possibility to make video clips from text mosaic frames, directly taken from video footage.
The key features of Textaizer 2 are:
Every picture tells a story
Both Mosaizer 6 an Textaizer 2 use this expression very literally. With Mosaizer a picture consists of 1000's of smaller pictures. If these pictures follow a theme, a story can be told (or discovered).
With textaizer the picture is built from text. When large fonts are used and sufficient distance between each line is taken, the reader can easily discover the story in the picture.
Mosaizer and Textaizer are trademarks of APP Helmond, The Netherlands
Last modified on
June 16, 2008
