Photo Tip 10: You can turn any photograph into a design in mosaic tiles in the program Corel Painter. When you open an image in Painter, choose from the pull down menu: Canvas>make mosaic. In the dialog box, you can choose the color and the width of the grout and the size of the tiles. It's then a simple matter to move the cursor over the original photo until it's entirely covered by tiles.

To keep the definition of important features, like the eyes, lips, eye brows, and perhaps the direction of the hair, first define those areas with the cursor. Then, you can randomly create tiles in any direction; the defined features will be clearly seen amidst the randomness. The entire process takes about five minutes.

Jim Zuckerman left his medical studies in 1970 to turn his love of photography into a career. He has lectured and taught creative photography at many universities and private schools, including UCLA, Kent State University, the Hallmark Institute of Photography, and the Palm Beach Photographic Center. He also has led both domestic and international photo tours for 29 years to Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, and the American Southwest.

Zuckerman has been a contributing editor to Photographic Magazine for 32 years. His images, articles and photo features have been published in hundreds of books and magazines including several Time-Life Books, publications of the National Geographic Society, Outdoor Photographer, Omni Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, Science Fiction Age, Australia's Photo World, and Greece's Opticon. He is the author of twelve books on photography.

His work has been used for packaging, advertising, and editorial layouts in thirty countries around the world. Jim's images have also appeared in calendars, posters, greeting cards, and corporate publications.