Lego Mosaics questions

[Prince Manic]

I've got some questions about LEGO Moasic art cause I may into that when I have the chance to do and frame what I made.

1. What base size I should work on?: 32 x 32 studs or the huge 48 x 48 when making moasic art to frame up

2. should I limit the colors to a certain palette of the LEGO Pieces (or tiles if I'm gonna use those)

3. how I should frame up the finished work for displaying on my wall or put on a desk?

4. What software or should I plan it out on Grid paper with the limited color paletter?

I would love to do this in the future and create cool Mosaic art to display and enjoy them for years to come.

[Xyver]

I looked into this only a couple of weeks ago. There are a few free programs that you can download to use, and some web-based ones as well. Just find the one that you like to use.

Most of them will turn a picture that you have into a mosaic using the colour pallette you choose and the size.

Depending on what you want to produce, the more colours you use, the better it will look. And the bigger you go, the more refined the image will be. If you want to re-produce a photo or a detailed picture, the bigger the better.

This of course pretty much ruled them out for me, I wanted to do a picture of Benny, but to get it looking half decent it would have to be at least 64x64, and that is quite expensive acquiring that many bricks.

One program I found (sorry, don't know the name of it) will also tell you which size bricks, in which colours, you need to complete the project. It doesn't have to be all 1x1s

[Prince Manic]

I looked into this only a couple of weeks ago. There are a few free programs that you can download to use, and some web-based ones as well. Just find the one that you like to use.

Most of them will turn a picture that you have into a mosaic using the colour pallette you choose and the size.

Depending on what you want to produce, the more colours you use, the better it will look. And the bigger you go, the more refined the image will be. If you want to re-produce a photo or a detailed picture, the bigger the better.

This of course pretty much ruled them out for me, I wanted to do a picture of Benny, but to get it looking half decent it would have to be at least 64x64, and that is quite expensive acquiring that many bricks.

One program I found (sorry, don't know the name of it) will also tell you which size bricks, in which colours, you need to complete the project. It doesn't have to be all 1x1s

I did found an iOS app that could do the trick it's caled Photobricks it hasn't been updated at all to be with iOS 7 looks and the 4-inch support but still gets the job done using a limited amount of legos I can use to make a photo moasic.

[Darkdragon]

I've found that the 32x32 baseplate can be easily framed in a 12x12 inch frame (i've used record frames as well as shadow box). The shadow box method looks great and allows you to use depth in your mosaic.