User's interface
 		  

The following is Mazaika's main window with opened source picture:

Mazaika's main window
 
The status bar contains statistics about the file you are currently editing.

To access all features of the program use Main menu

Mazaika's main menu

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

Run Mazaika wizard  - Run Mazaika wizard.

Open Create a new library dialogue.  - Open Create a new library dialogue.

Opens existing library.  - Opens existing library.

Opens source picture.  - Opens source picture.

Opens existing Mazaika project file.  - Opens existing Mazaika project file.

Saves a Mazaika project file.  - Saves a Mazaika project file to render it later in high resolution.

Starts a render.  - Starts a render.

Opens a custom tile window.  - Opens a custom tile window to manually replace some tiles with custom images.

Saves rendered target picture.  - Saves rendered target picture.

Stop.  - Stops the render process.

Exits the program.  - Exits the program.


Fast mosaic view.  - Fast mosaic view.

Zoom Out.  - Zoom Out.

Zoom In.  - Zoom In.

View with actual tile size.  - View with actual tile size.


Radio buttons.
 - These radio buttons used by toggling to view the Source image, Target mosaic image and a Difference between the source image and mosaic tiles.

When Enhance radio button is checked you may see color corrected mosaic preview. Use Color and Blend values to adjust your mosaic.
  
Distance.
 - Use this 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.
  
Repeat.
 - Use this value to set a number of occurrence of any given tile in the final mosaic. If this value is Auto (or 0) then program doesn't 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 boxes.
 - Check these check boxes to not overwrite the already rendered tiles.
  
Inverted Selection
 - You may render only the selected area of main image. If this check box is checked - only the NOT selected area would be rendered.

  
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.
Flipped images.
  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


  
 
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