Try this, Greg.

Open an image and add an alpha channel. Image > Canvas Size. Unlink w & h. Add at least 50 pixels to both measurements. Click the Center button.

Do NOT do layer to image size. Run the photo mosaic plug-in.

I did this image of an elephant. I added 100px of canvas both ways and did not have any overlapping parts of the image. I filled in a bg layer with blue and cropped it, other than that the image is as it finished up from the plug-in.



This one I added 50px to h & w for canvas. I used the default settings in the filter, and the only change I made was to make the bg color red.

Wow, this filter is fun to play with. =)

I'm loving what you are coming up with, Rod. Good work!!!

I took a colorful image of a toy giraffe and used pinch and swirl, then i ran The stained glass filter,after that i took out all the inside black lines so i had individual stained glass panels gave it a white bg, then finally i ran mosaic filter.

As soon as I can get back on my computer, I will try it out! Sounds like it should work.

Oregonian! You rock! Your technique worked perfectly!!

I got a clue when I made this image with a transparent bg and it came out with no bg.


Thought I'd try adding some transparency around an image and see what came out. You can see the results. I think 50px or even less would work fine. Was a lucky

I hate to be the buzz kill, but I ran across the following bug. It is repeatable, at least on my machine. I will send this to the author.

I've had that message more than one time. I got another one when I changed a different setting also. It is a buggy plug-in. Time to get out the flyswatter.

I sent a msg to the author, with the URL for this page, so he can see the error msgs. I know a fair amount of script-fu, but haven't looked into python scripting, so I can't help to fix the problem... yet.

After adding this line before line 172

angle = 0

That seemed to fix the rotation value error.
I wonder if adding other
integer = 0 (i am not sure what you use for numbers)
it would fix every setting, and stop the errors?
Because that would tell the script
"your value is 0"
Wouldn't it?

I haven't looked at the python script, so I don't know anything about it, but in all of my years of programming, we always declared all of our variables with a known value first. This looks like a math error or possible using a wrong value type. Usually numeric variables are integers and floats. I should take a look at the code and try to figure it out.

Good luck with it! =)

geeze, how did I miss this thread? kewl.....

I did too Molly; just downloaded it. Has issues, but, from the help here, I got the bleeding issue figured out. Not happy with some of the drop shadow effect parts on some of the panels that happened when I ran it, but, overall, pretty cool. I've used Big Picture action from Panosfx in the past and this python script gives a similar result.

where is the plugin located after it's downloaded and installed?

Try Gimp Scripts
http://gimpscripts.com/?s=Photo+mosaic
May tell you.

Thanks, Sallyanne.

Where can it be found then. I have it but cannot find it.