You wanna piece of me?

Aral Moo Mosaic

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) :)

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10 Responses to “You wanna piece of me?”


  1. 1 David Arno

    I find that slightly disturbing. Don’t know why.

  2. 2 Relly

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

  3. 3 Ronny

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

  4. 4 Adrian Parr

    Nice floor Aral. Is that your place?

  5. 5 Lee 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 ;)

  6. 6 David Arno

    @Adrian Parr

    I liked his floor too. Very nice three strip you’ve got there Aral!

  7. 7 Darren

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

  8. 8 Daniel

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

  9. 9 Oriflame Üyelik

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

  10. 10 Jensa

    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

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