Mosaic Creator 3.1

If you need picture mosaics you need Mosaic Creator. This is a professional tool that can create picture mosaics and large clickable thumbnails with unlimited number of cells. The application is full of options to control the image distribution and rendering parametres but may cause learning curve to be a bit steep. Good thing is that the image size and number of used images is unlimited and there are supported non-rectangular cells as puzzle, triangle, hexagon.

If you have troubles getting used to it, when you launch the program, a wizard will guide you through the process of creating mosaics, montages, Web thumbnails, mosaics from text, ASCII mosaic. Using more than 80 cell styles you will be able to create great mosaics. The result pictures can be personalized by adding text and image-based watermarks.

Based on another wizard, the process of creating thumbnail galleries is very simple because you have to choose only the background color, thumbnail style and image size. After you select the source images for the thumbnails the application will lower the resolution, make a web page with the images and even provide a link to obtain the EXIF data.

The process of doing the mosaic doesn't take too much only if you use thousands of graphics to make up the mosaic.

Pluses: thumbnails creator, the main wizard, a lot of cell styles, the ability of creating text and ASCII mosaics, size calculator;

Drawbacks / flaws: You need time to get used to its features.

In conclusion: A professional tool for creating mosaics. A lot of features are unique.

version reviewed: 2.98