Searching the Internet I found an interesting article that shows different image editors to create a mosaic with digital tools. I recommend you read it here, you’ll learn a lot. I used the same photo for my article, to compare objectively.

 With Photoshop Stained glass filter you can get a good result, but before running the filter you have to choose a foreground color for your “leading”, since you can’t change the color from within the filter. At Cutemosaic just need to make click at “stained glass tiles” mosaic type and you’ll receive it automatically getting a result like this:

Stained-Glass-Tiles

Photoshop has too a classic distortion filter. It loosely resembles our “ice cubes” mosaic type, but the difference is that at cutemosaic you only have to click and get a true 3D mosaic, however at Photoshop you have to Use Select>Color Range to select the black leading. Do select> inverse to select the colored panes. Now apply the glass filter. Choose “glass” from the drop down, and adjust to taste. Yes, I prefer just clicking too!

Ice-Cubes

There is another very interesting option at Photoshop: poster Edge Filter. You can get a good result that resembles the traditional type found in old churches. Cutemosaic offers two options visibly better than this one: “Crackelure Stained Glass” mosaic type that resembles a craquelure stained glass and “Shrine Stained Glass” mosaic type that looks like the traditional Stained Glass found in temples, churches and shrines.

Shrine-Stained-Glass

Crackelure-Stained-Glass

The Photoshop’s patchwork filter just gets a pixelated image trying to simulate a tile mosaic. Instead with one click you can get a real tile mosaic with any of the square mosaic types like “glitter class” mosaic type bellow:

Glitter-class

Corel Painter has the Woodcut filter. This filter gets an engraving effect. Go to Effects> Surface Control> Woodcut. You can get a similar but improved result at Cutemosaic with “frameless window” mosaic type. With this mosaic type you get an engraved cristal full of color but you can get the same result in a singular color with “Diamond Cyan Engraving” mosaic type.

Frameless-window

Painter has a Mosaic tool too, but It’s really hard to use. In fact is a painting tool, so tiles will appear instead of brushstrokes. Here is our option:

Pearl-Ancient-Tiles

Painter has a Custom Tile Filter with a variety of tile shapes (triangles, squares… etc) which divides the image painting over the photo the wished form. Cutemosaic doesn’t paint because it builds the image with the wished form, like a real mosaic, piece by piece, in real 3D, and with a long variety of forms, ranging from stars to jewels, beads, edges or marbles.

Marbles

Stars

Steampunk

Light-drops

Then, why am I going to use another digital tool if I can get better results just with a click? Cutemosaic is easier than Photoshop and Corel Painter, is cheaper, even free, is an online digital tool and gets far better results than others. Not only better but unique because there isn’t another tool like this one. Just try it for free and tell us your experience. Go to Cutemosaic and garnish your life creating unique beauty.

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