How to Build a Portrait with Dice (using Photoshop) | Attack Of Design

By Dotpattern @collectinghobby

How to Build a Portrait with Dice (using Photoshop) | Attack Of Design: "download it for free here along with the patterns"

...very interesting post about building a portrait with dice while reading Hacker News. In it, Scott MacDonald explains how to code a script to generate a mosaic of dice from an image. Since I’m more of a designer than a coder, this got me wondering if I could achieve the same effect using only my trusted Photoshop…
How to Build a Portrait with Dice (using Photoshop) | Attack Of Design

UPDATE: for you lazy people out there, I’ve created a Photoshop action that automates the whole process with any photo! You can download it for free here along with the patterns.

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