When was the last time you thought to yourself, “I wish I could turn that photo I just took into a mosaic made from Lego!”? Probably never. But just in case you ever have the urge, now you can turn photos into Lego mosaics with the first official app from Lego. It’s called Lego Photo, and it’s free to download.
User Interface
When you open up the app, the UI is extremely simple; just two great big buttons, one with a camera icon and one that lets you open up your photo library and choose a photo. Obviously on an iPod touch there’s no camera, but you can still Lego-ify the photos you’ve added through iTunes. It’s also very simple to create a mosaic – either take a photo or choose one and it’ll automatically be changed. Once your mosaic has been made, you can just tap it to change the colour of the Lego used.
Results
In some cases, the results of the app are very good – the photo of the hand in the gallery, for example. The colours don’t come out matching the photo’s colours, but they’re not supposed to. As I mentioned before, you can change the colours used if you don’t like the random ones chosen at first. As you can see from the hand photo in the gallery, the app does a good job at picking out small details. However, sometimes this detriments the effect. In a complicated photo, such as the second photo in the gallery, the app can get a bit confused and colour things a bit randomly (That second photo is a house and garden, by the way). Once you have created your mosaic, you can save the result by tapping the ‘i’ icon, and then tapping Save at the bottom. This very quickly saves the mosaic to your camera roll, ready to send in an email, an MMS or however you choose.
Verdict
Even though sometimes the app doesn’t always give perfect results, and it doesn’t have an amazing feature set, but it is free, and so it can’t hurt to download it and give it a go.
App store link: Lego Photo (free)
