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You wanna piece of me?

Published on May 6, 2008 in Moo. 11 Comments

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) :)

Find and add Creative Commons Licensed photos to your blog from Flickr

Published on February 22, 2008 in Creative Commons, Photos and Wordpress. 4 Comments

This sounds awesome: Photo Dropper is a Wordpress plugin to find and add Creative Commons licensed photos to your blog from Flickr.

I haven't tried it yet but I'll update this post once I do.

Read more about Photo Dropper on ReadWriteWeb.

Update: Had a chance to install and test the plugin. It's cool, especially for a Version 1.0 but a few shortcomings are immediately visible. For one thing, once you've added a photo, you have to edit it via the HTML. It would be cool if you could change the settings (size, etc.) after adding it. Also, it would be really great if you could resize the photo or crop it (these are pretty hefty feature requests that might hopefully make it into future versions). An easier feature request to implement would be to see what the various sizes are (S, M, L) in pixels and to be able to specify alignment/float values.

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