New library screen
 		  

Select from  Menu - File - New library
or use this Quick Button
New library button.

New library.

Library file name - Select a name for a new library.

Library root directory - Choose a drive and a directory where your picture collection is stored.

Include subdirectories - Check this option if your files are in subfolders.

Image file types - Choose one or more of the image file types you want to use.

Color mode - (default YCC) Choose library Color mode. There are two available modes: YCC and RGB. Recommended mode is YCC.

Picture X/Y rate - Select proportions of library tiles here.

Crop - (default Center) If proportions of tiles you choose would be different from proportions of original image used as a tile only part of this image would be indexed. You may select what part of image: top, bottom, right, left or center would be taken.
Note:
Your original image would not be changed. There is no actual cropping of your original files. Cropped areas are only sampled and indexed into a Mazaika picture database. There are no modifications of your original images!

Stretch - Use this to stretch image to the needed proportions. Sometimes it is easier to spot cropped tiles than stretched ones. If Stretch is checked all tiles will be stretched to the Picture X/Y rate regardless of their original aspect ratio.

Margin % - (default 0) If there is white or black outer rim on your pictures, or if your pictures contain a large amount of space around the edges, you can crop it by increasing Margin %  to more than 0.

Scan images - Press Scan images button to create a new library.
When process would be completed new library would be open and ready to use for mosaic making.

Stop - Press this button to stop scanning process anytime.
Library file would be created and filled with as many tiles as was indexed on the moment of canceling.

Close - Press this button to Close this screen without library creation.

  

Advanced settings (Active only in fully registered version)

Sampling - (default 6x6) - When picture tiles are selected, the program must choose only The Best Tile. It could analyze a region as a matrix of Sampling size. This setting depends on the image tile count. General rule: more tiles in library - more Sampling size. Usually it is enough to use 6x6 sampling size for an average size library about 1,000 - 5,000 tile. To make library with different sampling you may recreate it with this very screen or use Resampling option in the Library inspector screen.

Thumbs Width - (default 36)
Thumbs Quality - (default 60)
Thumbs i.e. miniature copies of image tiles are stored in the library. They are used for preview of mosaic in the main screen and for creation of output mosaic with not very high resolution. Higher values for Thumbs Width and Thumbs Quality will give you a clearer preview, but may decrease creation speed and increase resource consumption.
 


For a start see also:
Step-by-step: Create Library

 
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