how to "multiply" a picture?

[l345l]

okay, so...

i have a picture of a stickfigure, but i would like 800 of them to be on the same page. how can i do this without spending the next 58 years copying & pasting?


much appreciated

[Toby]

If you send me the picture I'll try to write a script to do this.

Oh and also tell me what size the page should be.

[l345l]

well, it's quite a specific thing.
... if it's the sort of thing that requires writing a script, then i don't have to bother doing it. .. .

[DeadSpace]

tried copy/paste, then grab both and do it again, grab all 4 do it again...? multiplies rather quickly, doubling every copy/paste. specific size, and grid snap to function, should be fairly easy. also some paint/manipulation apps have a pic flood fill, that's scalable/repeatable, can fill an entire sheet once you get the right size and number of clones.

[HackerX]

tried copy/paste, then grab both and do it again, grab all 4 do it again...? multiplies rather quickly, doubling every copy/paste. specific size, and grid snap to function, should be fairly easy. also some paint/manipulation apps have a pic flood fill, that's scalable/repeatable, can fill an entire sheet once you get the right size and number of clones.

Yeah, doesn't photoshop have a tool where you can grab a section and then use that to fill in an area?

[Denzien]

tried copy/paste, then grab both and do it again, grab all 4 do it again...? multiplies rather quickly, doubling every copy/paste.

This is what I do when I have to do this sort of thing - though I don't usually make 800 of them, so it's more effective to just do the work and move on than to research to find a tool or image editor feature that will do the work for me.

Not that I'm against making my own tools...

[dandylion]

Yeah, doesn't photoshop have a tool where you can grab a section and then use that to fill in an area?

You mean making a pattern?

[HackerX]

Probably... been a while since I've had to use photoshop

[Jon]

You could also make the stick figure a brush and mess with the brush settings so it has spacing jitter to make the placement seem more random. I can't quite figure out what you're trying to do, so I can't offer the best advice.

[Dupree]

You can make a new brush with the image to duplicate as the patern for the brush. Then simply draw whereever.

[qwerty]

Exactly like Dupree, even the gimp can be used like that. Select Figure and then use the clipboard as a brush.
800 clicks later and you're done.

If you don't want to brush on the object or make a pluging, you realise that to get the 800 you just need
copy and paste : 2 stick men
copy and paste : 4 stick men
copy and paste : 8 stick men
copy and paste : 16 stick men
copy and paste : 32
c&p : 64
c&p : 128
c&p : 256
c&p : 512
past the previous 254 again
778
copy in 8
copy in 4

reaching 800 in less than 20 moves :D

[Jakalwarrior]

Exactly like Dupree, even the gimp can be used like that. Select Figure and then use the clipboard as a brush.
800 clicks later and you're done.

If you don't want to brush on the object or make a pluging, you realise that to get the 800 you just need
copy and paste : 2 stick men
copy and paste : 4 stick men
copy and paste : 8 stick men
copy and paste : 16 stick men
copy and paste : 32
c&p : 64
c&p : 128
c&p : 256
c&p : 512
past the previous 254 again
778
copy in 8
copy in 4

reaching 800 in less than 20 moves :D

Same thing I was thinkin :D sometimes just trudging through proves to be faster than creative problem solving.

[dayguard]

Same thing I was thinkin :D sometimes just trudging through proves to be faster than creative problem solving.

True... and sometimes a new skill would prove very valuable in the long run. And if you have a bunch of INTJs to give their inputs.... heck, just post that qn.

[CTQY]

You may write a program to do it, or send it to me. I can do that.