Felicity of All Things Bright and Beautiful spent weeks gathering and sharing blogging tips. learn, as I did here.
I never knew how to create a mosaic of smaller pictures without using html, which takes so long, brings so much frustration and is to be avoided, in my mind,by all means necessary. So I was overjoyed to discover a trick around it. First the result:
Here is how I did it on my mac:
Open a picture.
Press apple, shift and 4 at the same time. It allows you to highlight that photo.
Release and the photo drops on our desktop as photo1
repeat with photo 2, 3, 4 etc,
Open a word document
drag picure 1, 2, 3 onto the word document.
At this point you can add words, legends, or prices if you wish. (or in my case those cute little paragraph symbols, which I forgot to put on "hide".)
Once you like the collage you've created, repeat the first move, (apple, shift and 4) to highlight the final collage.
When it appears on your desktop it is ready to use as a regular photo.
I am so excited by this new skill of mine. I still need to smooth out a couple of glitches in my system (I think you've noticed them too.) but I'm learning every day a little more.
Thank you Felicity. Seriously, you made my month!
pictures courtesy of Anthropologie online.
more later (rainy days help catching up on high level technology: look at this now:
Ooohhh.. I'm quite excited about this. It was done through this link, called big huge labs. I got this from a All Things Bright and Beautiful reader but I can't find which one. (I think it was in one of the comments.) Whoever you are, I worship the ground you walk on.
Thank YOU so MUCH!! I was trying to understand this yesterday, and YOU were able to explain it to me!! I''m saving your instructions now, and look forward to fiddling around latere!!
Posted by: rochambeau | January 27, 2008 at 10:09 AM
I think this is brilliant -- so much better than posting one photograph after another and very visually appealing too!!!
Posted by: Cherie | January 27, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Oh Corine! YOU LEGEND YOU!!!
A. what a great tip and
B. You worked it out!!!
Hugs!!
Felicity!
Posted by: all things bright and beautiful | January 28, 2008 at 05:48 AM
You are a star!! That is exactly what I have been trying to find.:-)
Love the photos.
Posted by: Anne | January 28, 2008 at 08:48 AM
Well done you this looks great
Posted by: Di Overton | January 28, 2008 at 09:56 AM
I have to thank you for this and your links to ATBB! Really. My favorite was making pictures big! And I love everything, but everything you post. Thanks!
Posted by: Mary Jane | January 29, 2008 at 11:48 AM
Corine,
Thanks for the info. I've tried dealing with this on my blog at dealfatigue.com for months! You've got a new fan. Now just tell me a great LA resource for pate' and black truffles!
Posted by: Peter Kaufman | January 29, 2008 at 03:45 PM
I have to work on it. I don't know how to make a mosaic ...well I'm an antiques dealer and I don't know very much about computer
Posted by: le petit cabinet de curiosites | January 30, 2008 at 07:08 AM
I cannot describe to you how excited I am to have read this post and to have learned this new trick:)
Yea, I am so excited. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Posted by: Melissa Lewis - Off The Wall | March 09, 2008 at 05:26 PM
I cannot describe to you how excited I am to have read this post and to have learned this new trick:)
Yea, I am so excited. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Posted by: Melissa Lewis - Off The Wall | March 09, 2008 at 05:28 PM
I have just been reading the info on how to make a mosaic but does anyone know how to do it on a windows computer and blogger as l would love to make one.
Posted by: Jill Smith | April 29, 2008 at 03:00 AM
Oh, COOL! I had no idea. Watch out world, I'm going to try a new trick!
Thank you SO MUCH! I just saw this link over at ATBB so I just had to come learn about this!
Melissa
Posted by: melissa @ the inspired room | May 02, 2008 at 09:13 PM
Hi! I am so excited about finding all your and allthingsbrightandbeautiful 's blogging tech tips on mac. i'm new to this and literally inching my way around here. thank you for the inspiration!!!
Posted by: absolutely beautiful | May 12, 2008 at 11:02 PM
sorry, typed the wrong name in the previous one.
Posted by: absolutely fabulous | May 12, 2008 at 11:53 PM
When I first started blogging a couple of weeks ago I searched for blogging tips and found not much. This was a revelation!! Thankyou for making life easier (and prettier) for a new blogger.
Posted by: Sarah Ryan | May 15, 2008 at 08:27 PM
hi! thanks for your visit! appreciate it. no, the apple + control + 4 (the one on top) didn't work for me.
what i could do was just to drag the photo (from a website) to my desktop and it saves itself there.
for the finished collage on word i would save it on pdf then export to a jpeg file. so cumbersome! what you do would have been so much easier..... i may be doing something wrong here? thanks so much
Posted by: absolutely fabulous | May 18, 2008 at 03:42 AM
i mean apple +shift + 4 . typo :)
Posted by: absolutely fabulous | May 18, 2008 at 03:43 AM