User's interface

User's interface

The following is Mazaika's main window with opened project file:

The status bar contains statistics about the file you are currently editing.

To access all features of the program use Main menu

The following Quick Buttons are intended to help you access the most common features of the program fast:

- Open Create a new library dialogue.

- Opens existing library.

- Opens source picture.

- Starts a render.

- Erase rendered cells. I.e. remove images from mosaic cells.

- Stops the render process.

- Opens Statistic screen.

- Opens Save mosaic to file window.

Radio buttons under the mosaic preview are for toggling Source image, Mosaic image and Enhanced mosaic image.

When Enhance radio button is checked you may see color corrected mosaic preview. Use Color and Blend values to adjust your mosaic.

- Use Distance value to set a distance between the same tiles in the mosaic. If this value is 6 then every 7th tile in the mosaic (horizontal or vertical) could be the same. In other words - 6x6 mosaic matrix would consist of different tiles. If this value is 0 then program could repeat the same tile one by one.

- Use Repeat value to set a number of occurrence of any given tile in the final mosaic. If this value is Auto (or 0) then program does not control the overall occurrence of tiles. If this value, for example, is 1 then any tile in the mosaic could be used only once. Please be careful with this control, if you do not have very many tiles in the library, it is recommended to set this value to Auto.

- Check these check boxes to not overwrite the already rendered tiles.

When Lock auto is checked program will not overwrite any already rendered cells. Checked Lock custom will not allow the program to overwrite only manually inserted images, i.e. images that were placed into the mosaic with Manual render functions.

- You may render only the selected area of main image. If this check box is checked - only the NOT selected area would be rendered.

- When you have a big mosaic and a smaller library and want to be sure

that all library images will be included into mosaic Use All Pics option

will do the work for you. Please see Use All Pics option topic.

Zoom controls are located at the lower right corner of the main window

- Fast mosaic view.

- Zoom Out.

- Zoom In.

- View with actual tile size.

Fit to view

- Fit mosaic to view

Advanced settings (Active only in fully registered version)

This feature will allows you to find the best suited orientation for every tile. You may allow to use tiles as they are, use flipped horizontal or vertical tiles and tiles rotated by 180°.

To enable this option please go to the Preferences - Advanced preferences screen and check Allow flip/rotate tiles check box.

Original - if checked - program will search for candidate tile within original (not flipped images).

H Flip - if checked - program will search for candidate tile within horizontally flipped images.

V Flip - if checked - program will search for candidate tile within vertically flipped images.

180 - if checked - program will search for candidate tile within rotated by 180° images.

Notes:
If you check more then one "flip" program will search for the best candidate image within all checked flips.

If no flipped images are present at your current base - they would be added automatically before first rendering. It may takes some time depending of number of images in the library. Flipped images will remain in the base for further usage i.e. second render will start immediately. To remove flips from the library use the Library inspector.

For a start see also:
Step-by-step: Create new library

Step-by-step: Create mosaic