You wanna piece of me?
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)
The You wanna piece of me? article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
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David Arno
I find that slightly disturbing. Don’t know why.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:15 pmRelly
I added a link of my shot and your blog post to the moo minicard group on flickr.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:53 pmRonny
Awesome
However I liked the one with Datum on it better :p
May 6th, 2008 at 2:08 pmAdrian Parr
Nice floor Aral. Is that your place?
May 6th, 2008 at 2:22 pmLee McColl Sylvester
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
May 6th, 2008 at 2:45 pmDavid Arno
@Adrian Parr
I liked his floor too. Very nice three strip you’ve got there Aral!
May 6th, 2008 at 3:36 pmDarren
Great idea, I want to do full size one now.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:59 amDaniel
For cool life-sized wall covering rasterizations, check out the rasterbator at http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ (yes, it is sfw!)
May 9th, 2008 at 3:15 pmOriflame Üyelik
I added a link of my shot and your blog post to the moo minicard group on flickr.
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:15 pmJensa
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
June 5th, 2008 at 10:26 amNatalie Ford
What an awesome way to make a jigsaw puzzle of one of your photos! I see this being great for kids. ;-p
July 15th, 2008 at 1:06 amShane
I don’t get it, I try it with an image from my 8mp camera, and it only does a set of 4×4 tiles. How did you get it to cover all 10×10 tiles (100 cards), did you upsize the image? Anyone anyone?
August 11th, 2008 at 11:00 pmalex
I added a link of my shot and your blog post to the moo minicard group on flickr.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:31 pmJames
Wow, this is SO cool…thank you for sharing this awesomeness!
James
January 15th, 2009 at 6:03 pm