Thing 9: Sharing photos

I loved using Mosaic Maker.  I thought it was really cool and easy to use.  Also, an account is not required.  I was able to make the mosaic above by pasting URLs from my Flickr account into the appropriate blanks on the Mosaic Maker website.  Then I created the mosaic without establishing an account with Mosaic Maker, and I was able to save the resulting image.  I liked this one so much that I used it with some of my favorite pictures of my kids, mainly just close-ups of their beautiful little faces, and I made a mosaic for each kid.  Then I printed them out and made Valentine’s Day cards for all the grandmas and surrogate grandmas.  They’ll eat it up!  I can foresee using this little application quite a bit in my personal life, and I can also see how it could be useful in a library setting to jazz up your webpage with event photos, to create posters for publicity, or to make a scrapbook of your events.

I also made a Flickr badge, which you can see in the column on the left.  That was super-simple to do using my existing Flickr account and the photos already there.

I haven’t had time yet to try the slideshows or the databases, but I intend to take a look at both, so you’ll probably see another Thing 9 post later.  So far, Mosaic Maker has been my absolute favorite new thing in this endeavor (followed by Google Reader and ToonDoo).