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AndreaMosaic is completely free for personal or commerical use but the license requires that you make AndreaMosaic more popular by giving a reference/credit to AndreaMosaic.
Just download and run the preferred setup file. It will install and run the program. To create a mosaic follow the tooltips inside AndreaMosaic. But I strongly suggest you take a look at the manual. For any question just send me an email at or write a question in the Forum.

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The full free version. No Demo. No time limit. Download the Portable version if you want to use AndreaMosaic on a USB Disk / Pen Drive / Memory stick for a fully portable usage. Use the alternative link if you have troubles with the download. AndreaMosaic is also on Wikipedia.
AndreaMosaic 3.32.3 - 19 June 2009 - File size: 8 MByte.(6294 downloads in the last 10 days)
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AndreaMosaic for Mac OS X is available here.
Note: Only OS X 10.4 or later with Intel CPU/Processor.
On Linux you can run AndreaMosaic successfully with the free Wine Emulator which is available on most linux distributions using the standard installer (Synaptics, etc). After you installed Wine download and execute the AndreaMosaic Windows Setup. Click Here for more details about AndreaMosaic under Wine.
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If you need some images to create your first mosaic then you can download and install these 500 free images.
9 March 2008 - File size: 5 MByte (244 downloads in the last 10 days)
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The Bonus Pack is available to whoever supports in any way the development of AndreaMosaic. This version contains a few more Patterns. For more information see the Donation page and read the FAQ.

The Professional version is available to whoever supports extensively the development of AndreaMosaic. This version create mosaics up to 8,000 megapixels made of 500,000 tiles. For more information see the Donation page and read the FAQ.

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Download the free K-Lite Codec Pack if you want to extract images from video/movie files using AndreaMosaic. You don't need to install the entire package but only a few Video for Window codecs. Those older components don't create any problems with your existing video/audio configuration. Follow the instructions in this video or the next four steps:
  1. Download the Full version
  2. Run the setup and click Next until you reach the Select Components Window
  3. From the list box choose the last profile option: Deselect All
  4. Then scroll down the list and select only the VFW Video codecs. Click Next until installation is complete.

Note: For Windows 98/ME/NT you need to download version 3.4.5 of K-Lite Full Codec Pack. You may need to install also DirectX 8.1 or later.


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Credits Description
Open source JPEG Library (Wikipedia).
Open source Unicode Library (Wikipedia).
Open source catalogs Library. (Wikipedia).
Open source C++ Library (Wikipedia).
Open source cross-platform gettext catalogs editor (Wikipedia).
Open source Windows Emulator for Unix/Linux like machines (Wikipedia).
Open source version control system (Wikipedia).

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Peace & Love.
Andrea

Compatibility
Windows - Vista, XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows 98/ME/NT (should work on Windows 95 too).
Linux - All versions that support the free Wine Emulator.
Mac OS X - Version 10.4 and later (i.e. Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard) with Intel Processor. No PPC Processor. Sorry.

History
19 June 2009 - New Release 3.32.3
BugFix:
- Corrected problem with the Add Folder button on Mac OS X / Linux..

16 June 2009 - New Release 3.32.2
News:
- Full support for Mac OS X.

25 April 2009 - New Release 3.32.1
News:
- Dutch Translation and minor text changes.

1 April 2009 - New Release 3.31.11
Comparing with the previous stable release 3.30 we have:
News:
- French, Spanish, Italian and Chinese Translation.
- Several new Patterns, mixing Landscape and Portrait Tiles. Extra Patterns available with the AndreaMosaic Bonus Pack
- Improved MaskFile processing. With Black/White color you can define tile boundaries without a border.
- Use All Images in Collection option will not place the tiles on the border
- Black&White mosaics can be saved as colored mosaics with the feel of a black&white mosaic
- It is possible to specify the location of the saved Mosaic.
- Improved algorithm when specifying the Frame distance parameter in the More Options.
- New image resize and new tile building processing for reduced memory usage and improved quality.
- The Faster algorithm support now the Frame parameters and No-Duplicated tiles together.
Changes:
- Minor changes (bigger font for Tooltip, Mosaic Information shows usable/total tiles in Tile Archive, bug fixes)
- When loading/saving files the last used path will be initially shown
- AndreaMosaic Portrait version is integrated into the Standard version.
- System error messages are in English now
Bugfix:
- Fixed bug when extracting frames from a Video/Movie file (was unable to save)
- Fixed wrong rotations of tiles (if main tile is rotated and flipping required)

25 March 2009 - New Beta Release 3.31.10
Changes:
- Spanish Translation updates.
Bugfix:
- Was unable to create mosaics made from Maskfile (fix on 3.31.9)

20 March 2009 - New Beta Release 3.31.9
Changes:
- Translation updates.
Bugfix:
- Sometimes the mosaic had a smaller size than the specified parameters (fix on 3.31.8)

18 March 2009 - New Beta Release 3.31.8
News:
- Several new Patterns for Portrait and Landscape tiles. Extra Patterns available with the AndreaMosaic Bonus Pack
- Improved MaskFile processing. With Black color you can define tile boundaries without a border.
- Use All Images in Collection option will not place the tiles on the border
- AndreaMosaic Portrait version is integrated into the Standard version.
- Added Spanish Translation
- Black&White mosaics can be saved as colored mosaics with the feel of a black&white mosaic
Changes:
- Better Pattern Description for Parquet and Mixed, and translation updates.
- Minor User Interface changes.
- When loading/saving files the last used path will be initially shown
Bugfix:
- Translation and minor user interface fixes

8 March 2009 - New Beta Release 3.31.7
BugFix:
- Fixed bug when extracting frames from a Video/Movie file (was unable to save)
- Minor changes in the translations

23 February 2009
- New Beta Release 3.31.6
News:
- New patterns 'Parquet' and 'Mixed' for allowing Landscape and Portrait tiles in the same mosaic.
- Minor user interface fixes

8 February 2009 - New Beta Release 3.31.5
News:
- Added language selection in main window
- Added Chinese Language
- Minor changes (bigger font for Tooltip, Mosaic Information shows usable/total tiles in Tile Archive, bug fixes)

6 January 2009 - New Beta Release 3.31.4
News:
- Added language selection in main window
- Added French Language

22 December 2008 - New Beta Release 3.31.1
Changes:
- Improved algorithm when specifying the Frame distance parameter in the More Options.

19 December 2008 - New Beta Release 3.31.0
News:
- It is possible to specify the location of the saved Mosaic.

Changes:

- New image resize and new tile building processing for reduced memory usage and improved quality.
- MaskFile use a new algorithm, with White as transparent color and higher tollerance
- Improved Interface for Extracting Frames from Video, with automatic Frame size calculation
- The Faster algorithm support now the Frame parameters and No-Duplicated tiles together.
- System error messages are in English now
- Added Italian Language

BugFix:
- Fixed wrong rotations of tiles (if main tile is rotated and flipping required)

24 October 2008 - New Release 3.30.4
Changes:
- Added support for Windows 98, Windows Millenium, Windows NT (maybe it works on Windows 95 too).

General Known Issues:
- Web Page HTML file has wrong name for the main image if mosaic is splitted.
- improved Tooltip mouse handling.

Windows 98 Known Issues:

- Tool Tip available only on main windows.
- Select Tiles: Image Icon's are shown incorrectly.

Linux Known Issues:

- the ? button doesn’t open the User Manual, but there is a shortcut in the Windows Start Menu.
- Web Page HTML file has wrong name of tiles, editing base folder is a workaround.
- When saving a collection the default file extension is not automatically added.
- Drag&Drop from File Manager/Desktop works well on GNOME but not on KDE.
- Internet Web Link to AndreaPlanet web site in ToolTip and AboutBox works only with the Windows 98/ME version.
- Video Extraction from Movies (require VfW codecs). I tried without success the K-Lite codec pack.

16 October 2008 - New Release 3.30.3
Changes:
- Removed 'beta' from title Window.


8 October 2008 - New Release 3.30.2
Changes:
- Updated User Manual.
- Splitting Window is shown automatically if Mosaic is greater than the limits of the saved File Format
- Fixed minor bug when calculating the size of very large mosaics.

23 September 2008 - New Release 3.30
Changes:
- More messages, tooltips and minor fixes.

22 September 2008 - New Release 3.23.10 Beta
Improvements:
- Improved Mosaic Quality: Tile selection improved colour accuracy.
- Improved Black&White conversion.
- Improved Image Comparison algorithm
- Improved performance when loading large JPG files.
- DPI/PPI Resolution is now saved into the final Mosaic.

Changes:
- More messages, changes to existing messages and tooltip layout changes
- When selecting Black&White tiles the resulting mosaic will be automatically in Black&White

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed several bugs

Known Issues:
- Linux: the ? button doesn’t open the User Manual, but there is a shortcut in the Windows Start Menu.
- Linux: Web Page HTML file has wrong name of tiles, editing base folder is a workaround.
- Linux: When saving a collection the default file extension is not automatically added.
- Linux: Drag&Drop from File Manager/Desktop works well on GNOME but not on KDE.
- Web Page HTML file has wrong name for the main image if mosaic is splitted.
- User Manual is not updated.

10 September 2008 - New Release 3.23.4 Beta
New Features:
- New 'High Quality' Mosaic Processing. It produces better mosaics.
- New 'Unique Variations' Mosaic Processing. It is useful for creating mosaics with real tiles.
- New Color Change Processing in the More Options Window
- Full compatibility for Pen Drive deployment. You can use the program on your Pen Drive without installing it.
- Rotation option is split between 90 and 180 degrees rotation
- Professional version allows to create mosaics up to 8 Gigapixels (this is a image made of over 24 Gigabytes)
- Select Tiles: Added Exclude and Required Folder. Required images are always included in a mosaic even if they don't fit well.
- Select Tiles: Added Drag&Drop for multiple directory selecting
- Select Tiles: A preview of all available Images for the Tiles is shown in the fourth list
- Mosaic Information is shown in custom measure units
- Full support for Linux Distributions

Improvements:
- Improved Mosaic Quality
- Improved Performance
- Reduced Memory Usage
- Improved Status Message
- Improved layout when XP Theme is not available (Windows 2000, Linux, etc)

Changes:
- The resulting mosaic is not shown but only saved
- Select Tiles Window: Removed Analyze button, it is done automatically at each Save.
- Parameter Tile Size: nnn Tiles x Row is calculated always on Rows even with Portrait images.
- New ToolTip layout

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed several bugs

Known Issues:
- Large bright images (over 3 Megapixel) in your Tile Archive are used when not needed.
- Linux: the ? button doesn’t open the User Manual, but there is a shortcut in the Windows Start Menu.
- Linux: Web Page HTML file has wrong name of tiles, editing base folder is a workaround.
- Linux: When saving a collection the default file extension is not automatically added.
- Mosaic size is shown with a wrong conversion when switching to feet or meter
- User Manual is not updated.

21 August 2008 - New Release 3.23.0 Beta
New Features:
- New User Interface made with a simple and clear design
- Preview of how the original image is splitted into Tiles
- All input parameters are designed to be easy to understand and to insert
- It is possible to specify the parameters in any unit: pixel, inch, feet, meter, cm, tiles, tiles x row.
- It is possible to make mosaics looking like a wall, see Pattern option
- It is possible to specify individually the kind of variations to allow (Flipping, Rotating).
- It is possible to specify a custom color for the Border.
- Increased number of variations with AndreaMosaic Square Version when rotations is enabled.
- Two new Image Compare algorithm: Stronger and Weaker.
- The Image Collection support multiple Folders
- Improved Memory usage.
- Improved Performance in several situations.
- Improved Mosaic Quality.
- Option to Split the final Mosaic in different pieces.
- Option to create automatically a Deep Zoom Composer project file to publish your mosaic on the web using Microsoft Silverlight Technology. Here a sample image.
- Option to save the resulting mosaic as a Windows BMP file for maximum image quality (no compression).
- Support for internationalization. Soon AndreaMosaic can be translated into any world language. Translators Wanted.
- All the produced files are saved in a subdirectory
Bug Fixes:
- Old algorithm used to rotate the tiles even if Flipping was disabled.
- Fixed bug when updating the collection and some images was removed.
- Several minor corrections

12 August 2008
- Updated the User License, AndreaMosaic is now creditware.
- Added List of Artworks created with AndreaMosaic to the home page..

8 May 2008 - 3.22.0
- Updated User Manual.

8 March 2008 - 3.22.0
- Raised limits of the maximum size of your mosaic to 200 MegaPixels.
- Improved Performance and Memory Usage.

17 September 2007 - 3.21.0
- Option for to use all Images in your Collection.
- Option to specify Quality of saved JPG Mosaic.
- Improved Memory Usage.
- Improved Performance.
- Added Progress Bar.
- Smoother User Interface through Multithreading support.
- Improved limits on maximum mosaic size. Maximum 32000 Tiles. 50 MegaPixels Image size.
- Status line for detailed processing information.
- It is now possible to stop the mosaic process at any time.
- Fixed the preview window of the original image, sometimes not working well..

18 July 2006 - 3.20.0
- Added option for specifying the size of the created Web Page.
- The Web Page now zoom automatically the image while moving the mouse (Thanks to 'aeracryon' ).
- Fixed some bugs.
- Updated the Donation List in the AboutBox!

10 October 2005 - 3.19.0
- Added option for saving an image to Bitmap Format.
- Improved quality on saving the final mosaic.

15 August 2005 - 3.18.5
- Added Sample Image Collection made with over 500 tiny sample images

1 August 2005 - 3.18.3
- Added some Photo Utilities for advanced users only.
- Minor fixes in the Text Report File and Updated User Manual about the Text Report File.
- Change: The Tiles X Row parameter is no longer used as Tiles X Col if Height > Width.

6 July 2005 - 3.17.6
- Updated User Manual
- Image Preview is centered to the Desktop Screen.
- Added Buttons for User Guide and Online Help.
- Added Usage Count in the About Box.
- Improved Mosaic Total Size and Total Tile count.
- Added Quality parameter in the support for very Big Mosaics.
- The Total Size and Tile Count was replaced with two new parameters TileWidth and Tiles per Row. So it is possible to give an exact size for the final mosaic/single tiles.
- New parameter Maximum Number of duplicated tiles. Together with the parameter Minimum distance between every duplicated tile it is possible to customize tile duplication.
- Minor fixes.

25 May 2005 - 3.16.5
- New release 'AndreaMosaic NTSC' in order to create photographic mosaics with tiles in NTSC video format.
- Drag & Drop Support. If you drag and Image from Windows Explorer to AndreaMosaic it will be added to the Image List.
- The Sequence Algoritm will work only on directories/files of the Image Collection that contain the name "FRAMES".
- Minor improvements for the Square version & flipping problem.
- BugFix: Fixed position of the tiles in the Map of the HTML File.
- BugFix: The Movie Extraction function now write correctly the JPG files.
- BugFix: When the parameter duplicated tiles was set to 0 then the Sequence Algorithm did not worked.
- BugFix: When creating an Image Collection also images with JPEG and JPE extensions are included.

7 November 2004 - New Release 3.15
- New release 'AndreaMosaic Portrait' in order to create photographic mosaics with tiles in portrait format.
- Now it is possibile to use images files (JPG) in CMYK format in addition to RGB and Grayscale formats.

1 November 2004 - New Release 3.14
- Now it is possible to save a Report as a Text file or Web/HTML file.

11 August 2003 - New Release 3.13 for Cinescope and Square
- Now it is possible to create mosaics with Cinescope tiles (aspect ratio 16:9) or Square tiles (same width and height of every tile)..

11 August 2003 - User Manual in English
- Finally I wrote some pages on how to use the program!

12 April 2003 - New Release 3.13
- The Extract from Movie window have now a preview feature of the extracted frames.

8 April 2003 - New Release 3.12
- The progress indicator is now more smoother and I added some more information in the About Box.

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