--- title: Website Turns Photos Into Emojis With Emoji Mosaic description: Emoji mosaic website recreates photos with emojis canonical: https://time.com/4005377/emoji-photos-emoji-mosaic/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-20T20:17:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:46.534Z og:title: Website Turns Photos Into Emojis With Emoji Mosaic og:description: Emoji mosaic website recreates photos with emojis og:url: https://time.com/4005377/emoji-photos-emoji-mosaic/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Website Turns Photos Into Emojis With Emoji Mosaic twitter:description: Emoji mosaic website recreates photos with emojis twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Website Turns Any Photo Into a Mosaic of Emojis ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 20, 2015 8:17 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 20, 2015 8:17 PM UTC A new website will turn any photo into a mosaic of emojis. Web developer, Eric Andrew Lewis, who works at the _New York Times_, created [this site](http://ericandrewlewis.github.io/emoji-mosaic/) where users can upload a photo and save the emoji-fied creation to their computers. Below is how it depicted a corgi spotted on a Manhattan street on a sunny day. Some parts of the dog’s brown fur are made up of poop emojis and chocolate frosted donuts, while the shadow is made up of black graduation caps and VHS tapes. See for yourself, and have fun making your own portraits [here](http://ericandrewlewis.github.io/emoji-mosaic/): Original:  Olivia B. Waxman Emoji:  ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4005377/emoji-photos-emoji-mosaic/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4005377/emoji-photos-emoji-mosaic/"},"headline":"This Website Turns Any Photo Into a Mosaic of Emojis","datePublished":"2015-08-20T20:17:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:43:46.534Z","description":":-D","url":"https://time.com/4005377/emoji-photos-emoji-mosaic/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4005377/emoji-photos-emoji-mosaic/","name":"This Website Turns Any Photo Into a Mosaic of Emojis"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4005377/emoji-photos-emoji-mosaic/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4005377/emoji-photos-emoji-mosaic/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```