Create a Mosaic Photo in Photoshop CS6

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Video: Create a Mosaic Photo in Photoshop CS6

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You're watching VisiHow! In this video, we are going to show you how you can add a mosaic effect to an image in Photoshop CS6 in Windows 7.

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   To begin, we should have Photoshop opened

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   Then, we either create a new document or open an existing one

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   There are other VisiHow videos on how to do that. We can see that a document has been opened in the tutorial. This is indicated by the tab on the left.

   

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   If we have multiple layers, we should ensure that we've selected the layer that we'll be working with on the right-hand side

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   We click "Filter"

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   We move down to "Pixelate"

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   We move the cursor across until we find "Mosaic..."

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   Clicking it will bring a pop-up window where we can preview a filter by clicking and dragging the image.

   

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   We can zoom in by clicking "+" on the right-hand side

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   We can zoom out with "-"

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   We can select the "Cell Size" value below

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   The cell size is the mosaic cell. We can drag the slider if we, for example, want it to be 122 squares. We will see that it will be like a color palette.

   

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    We can drag the slider left so that we see the outline of the image

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    We can also click the input box and type a number as well

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    Once we are satisfied with the results, we can click "OK" to apply the effect to the layer

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    Alternatively, we click "Cancel" to go back to how the layer was before

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