How to use it
- Choose or drop a photo.
- Set the Tile size and the Grout gap.
- Choose Square or Round tiles and a Grout colour.
- Add some Shade variation for a hand-laid look, then download.
How it works
The picture is cut into a grid of squares of the chosen size. For each square the colours of all its pixels are averaged. The tile is drawn smaller than its square by the grout gap (a percentage of the tile size) on a background of the grout colour.
Example
On a 4 × 2 picture with tile size 2, the left tile averages four pixels. If they are 0, 100, 0 and 100 grey, the tile is grey 50.
Tips
- Large tiles with round shape and a dark grout look like pebbles; small square tiles with thin grout look like a ceramic mosaic.
- Photos with big areas of one colour need some shade variation, or the tiles look flat.