Mike DelGaudio

Photojojo has a great project where you take a picture and make a mailable mosaic. Essentially this project takes one picture, blows it up to poster size then prints out a bunch of pages that get cut up into postcard size chunks.

However, in the project they use Photoshop and a whole mess of steps to get the picture divided up into a bunch of sections that make up the individual postcards. I don’t know about you but I don’t have the manual dexterity to create a grid of perfect 4×6 prints using the Photoshop grid lines. I guarantee I won’t get it right the first time — and ink ain’t cheap, y’know?

If they only knew that this is a drop dead simple operation in Picasa. Oh well, it’ll just be our little secret.

Here is all you need to do:

1. Select your photo.
   

2. Click “Create” then “poster”
3. Set to 400% (or larger for more prints) on 4×6 paper
   

4. Picasa will create 16 (or more) prints, conveniently numbered with row and column in the File name
   

5. Select the images and Print.

   

Viola! 16 postcards that just need a stamp, address and a nice little message to have a great project with lots of anticipation.

Even if you have Photoshop, It’s still worth it to use Picasa to create your mosaic, if only for simplicity’s sake!

[tags]Mike DelGaudio, Picasa, Poster, Photojojo[/tags]