Lego Effect

[The Official Y35]

Does anyone know
how this
effect would be achieved
?




And Turn it into this
::



I Have larger pics if you want/need.







And just another cool effect.

[Jpec07]

I have a general idea of how it's done, though it'd take a couple tries to replicate exactly. Why?

[knight kninja]

yeah thats obvious...

Filter-->Awesome-->Lego

[Smeagle]

Effect? That's just actual Lego's......

[Jpec07]

No, it's an effect. Lego bricks don't come in that many colors. The effect is called something like "tile" or something. Again, I'd have to mess with it, but I can do it.

EDIT: Did my research. It's actually Mosaic, followed by a Sharpen filter, plus a pattern overlay that I nabbed from that image. Check it out:



EDIT2: You know, now that I look at it in more detail through photoshop, it actually appears as though that was done in actual Legos. What's funny is that after refining my method a bit, I actually think it looks more realistic than the actual photo-capture: