New Puzzle day is one of my favorite kind of days! Today was a really good new puzzle day. Two puzzles showed up from ebay. One of which is Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel – 8000pc from Educa! This puzzle never looks like much when you see it online because the image is too big to be done justice. I went ahead and created in interactive map of it so you can explore this fascinating work. Everyone has seen a few of these panels (Creation of Man) but have you really seen the whole thing?
The puzzle version when assembled is roughly 9 feet long by 3 feet tall! It comes in 4 bags of 2000 pieces and should be relatively easy to assemble based on the section size and colors! I can’t wait to assemble this big boy!
Below is the interactive map: Double click to zoom in and click and drag to move the image around (You can also use the controls in the upper right)
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Tom and Mercedes Custom Puzzle
So, we have been kicking around the idea of a custom photo puzzle of us for some time. Tonight, we went through our photos and spent some time creating it! Its a photo mosaic of a Britto Painting titled Bride and Groom. It consists of 2618 tiles from 209 images of our crazy life together.
Here it is, we will let you know how it goes. We are hoping the folks over at http://www.mypersonalpuzzle.com/ will build it for us. We have reached out to them and they have indicated they can build a custom 6000 piece version! Check out their site! They are located right here in Indiana They make about 50,000 puzzles a day and chances are since you are reading this blog, you have assembled one of their puzzles and don't even know it!
You may be interested in the software we used to make this puzzle. It was a two step process involving the mosaic software and photoshop. The mosaic software is Andrea Mosaic. It is free software and does an amazing job! We created the 210megapixel mosaic with no coloring to force the software to perform the best "fit" of the tiles. We then took the exported image into Photoshop and overlaid the original artwork as an "overlay" layer and set the opacity to 70%. This provided the richest color and the strongest images. Feel free to contact me if you want help making your own.
And this is an interactive "map" of the image. Double click to zoom in and click and drag to move around. It is rather large; we plan on getting a 6000 piece version (A big boy for sure) so each image will be about 3 pieces. The actual puzzle will be 62.5in x 42.5in. This is going to be one seriously difficult puzzle!
Here it is, we will let you know how it goes. We are hoping the folks over at http://www.mypersonalpuzzle.com/ will build it for us. We have reached out to them and they have indicated they can build a custom 6000 piece version! Check out their site! They are located right here in Indiana They make about 50,000 puzzles a day and chances are since you are reading this blog, you have assembled one of their puzzles and don't even know it!
You may be interested in the software we used to make this puzzle. It was a two step process involving the mosaic software and photoshop. The mosaic software is Andrea Mosaic. It is free software and does an amazing job! We created the 210megapixel mosaic with no coloring to force the software to perform the best "fit" of the tiles. We then took the exported image into Photoshop and overlaid the original artwork as an "overlay" layer and set the opacity to 70%. This provided the richest color and the strongest images. Feel free to contact me if you want help making your own.
And this is an interactive "map" of the image. Double click to zoom in and click and drag to move around. It is rather large; we plan on getting a 6000 piece version (A big boy for sure) so each image will be about 3 pieces. The actual puzzle will be 62.5in x 42.5in. This is going to be one seriously difficult puzzle!
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