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7. The Menus / 7.8 The Effects Menu

### 7.8.2 Effect Filters/Mosaic

Mosaic breaks up an image in many small pieces and illuminates these pieces afterwards in order to create an 3D-effect.

Cell controls the way, how the image is broken up. Corners is the number of corners per piece, Size is the length of an edge of a piece and Variation defines the regularity.

Width is the distance between two pieces and Color is the color used to fill this area.

The remaining subdialogs control the illumination.

Emboss defines the position of the light source, Flattening gives the height of a piece and Strength the overall intensity of the light source.

Light and Shadow control the corresponding color and intensity.

Special handles various settings. Soften reduces rough edges created by the illumination. Border Form controls the shape of the edge of a piece. If you select Hide Original, every piece of the mosaic will have a uniform color, if it is not selected, the original image will shine through. Soft Light uses an alternative way of illumination, that achieves sometimes better results.