Mymosaic: create beautiful photo mosaics

8:36AM EST December 5. 2012 - Looking to do something fun and unique with your holiday photos this year?

As the name of the app suggests, mymosaic - photo mosaic maker lets you create, print and share beautiful mosaics – a picture made up hundreds of teeny photos – right on your favorite iDevice.

When you first launch mymosaic, it lets you import a photo from your Camera Roll or Photo Library, or you can take a photo right from within the app. Once you've selected the main photo for your mosaic, you choose photos as your tile source (e.g. every photo you took last month) and make other choices, too, such as number of titles, color tweaks, variety of tiles, framing options, and more.

When you've finished choosing these options – or don't do anything, if you prefer -- tap to generate your unique mosaic. Keep in mind it will take longer if the app is rendering thousands of photos instead of hundreds, though the whole process never takes more than 20 or 30 seconds on the long end.

When you're done, you'll see your mosaic on the screen and you can zoom in with your fingertips to see all the smaller thumbnail photos that make up the main picture. Now tap the Save button and choose a size in which to save it: Mobile (ideal for smartphones and tablets, or for printing wallet-sized photos), Small (10 x 10 inches), Medium (20 x 20 inches) or Large (30 x 30 inches) for those who want a poster-sized print to send to your local photomat.

There is no option to print right from within the app, though, but at least you can access your saved mosaic – which is dropped into your Camera Roll – and print from there.

You can also tap the Share tab to upload to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. Oddly, Instagram and Pinterest aren't listed here, which seems like an oversight.

Despite these minor shortcomings, mymosaic lets you make unlimited professional-quality photo mosaics – with no talent necessary whatsoever.

Whether you're looking for something unique to do with your holiday photos or perhaps create a framed mosaic to give as a gift, this clever and affordable iOS app is worthy of your time and consideration.

Note: While this app works on iPad, it is not yet optimized for the larger screen.