The Lego construction toys are hot again. Hey, there’s even a Lego movie. In keeping with the tradition of expensive Lego toys everywhere, here’s a simple and elegant way to turn any photo into a Lego photo. Free. The app is called Photobricks and it can turn your Mac into a Lego photo making printing machine with just a few clicks.
If a photo is worth a thousand words, then a simple screenshot is worth a few hundred.
While it’s drop dead easy enough to create a Lego-like photo using Photobricks, there are a few granular controls to enhance the image.
For example, the Lego mosaic can be customized by cropping the image size and changing the color of individual bricks. There’s even a selection of Lego-like brick to build a photo or image mosaic, and each finished image can be shared, saved, or printed.
If you like to create Lego-like photos on your Mac, then it’s possible that your children will appreciate doing the same thing on the iPhone or iPad with Photobricks for iOS, also free.
Photo bricks is not exactly something every Mac photographer needs to enhance a photo gallery, but not bad for free.