How do I make a photo collage?

July 17, 2008 5:33 PM

How can I make a photo collage out of a collection of words and/or photos?

I'm interested in building something similar to this out of my own collection of words and/or photos. It'd be best if I could automate this process by typing in my own sentences and providing my photos. I'm hoping this process could be automated instead of having to cut up a bunch of photos.

posted by mcarthey to Media & Arts (3 answers total)

Andrea Mosaic for Windows does a pretty good job, and is free. However, I think you'd have to make your own images with the text you want. It does need a really good selection (hundreds, if not thousands) of source images to be able to create something that closely resembles whatever you want the collage to look like.
posted by valleys at 5:47 PM on July 17, 2008

I second Andrea Mosaic, it works great.
posted by perpetualstroll at 5:50 PM on July 17, 2008

Big Huge labs http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/
allows you to make custom mosaics from flickr

I made some nice stuff with it
posted by Marsha at 12:05 PM on July 18, 2008