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1. AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Save Default Values Page 41 of 412. S The flag button ar allows you to change the language of the program If you are not comfortable with the English language click to see which other languages are available Different Program versions When you start the program you will be asked to choose the aspect ratio of the tiles in the resulting mosaic AndreaMosaic DSLR Tes 2 Rectangle Tiles 4 3 Movie Tiles 16 9 Tutorial Please select a Tile Type or the Tutorial for more information Choose the version based on the images that you will use as tiles i e the 7 e List These tiles will be automatically cropped a little bit on the borders when building the mosaic in order to match the required aspect ratio Aspect Ratio Whentouse With generic images AndreaMosaic Cinescope 16 9 When your Image Collection is based on movie frames AndreaMosaic DSLR NTSC 3 2 When your Image Collection is based on frames from USA Television Video Camera or DSLR Cameras AndreaMosaic Sguare 1 1 When you want that all tiles have the same width and height Load Save Settings This section allows to save all the Mosaic Parameters Press the w button to save the current settings Select one of the items in the drop down list to load the settings Press the button to delete the currently selected settings In the drop down list there are a several automatic settings Parquet Landscape etc offering some predefined parameters for different mosaic
3. 11 x 10 117 tiles Final Mosaic 10 8 KP x 7195 pixels 77 7 MP Tile Count 0 117 ti EG A ER c File Size 222 MB Tile Type 76 L 41 P tiles Donate NU 3 Border Size 0 pixels List Type 550 L 7 P images Gr Resolution 300 PPI gt oe 2 GigaPan Fi Completed 68 33 Time 00 00 01 Saving Mosaic 18 38 Main Screenshot of AndreaMosaic AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 3 of 41 Your first Photographic Mosaic 1 Create a Tile Images List A Tile Images List is a list of all the images that AndreaMosaic will use as tiles to build your mosaic First you need a Directory to store all your images to use as tiles You can use Windows Explorer to do this or any other program The images have to be JPG files This is the most common used format for photographs You can also place the images in subdirectories to organize them better The next step is to tell AndreaMosaic where the collection of your images is located The program will then analyze all the images and the result is stored in a Tile Images List a file with AMC extension This file contains the basic information of every image the name of the image the size in which directory subdirectory it is stored 1 Execute AndreaMosaic SndreaMosaic AndreaMosaic DSLR Tiles 3 2 Rectangle Tiles 4 3 Movie Tiles 16 9 2 In the Main Menu choose one of the Tile formats this will be the aspe
4. these options are available in the More Options gt Advanced Settings button or also in the Extract Tiles from Videos gt AVI button For each option there is a description of its meaning and the default factory value It is possible to replace the default values with the Save Default Values button Section Parameter Value Options Options Process Count 0 processes Options Memory Block 200 MByte Options Priority very low Process Count 0 Processes Parallel Execution of some tasks in AndreaMosaic 0 Detect automatically the number of CPU s 1 Use a single process only no parallel execution gt 0 Use that number of processes Parallel Execution 1 Replace this value with the detected number of CPU s Default factory value 0 processes Options Mosaic Preview no Options Tile List Load no Options Tile List Save no Options Final Action ask Options Tile Area Priority Options Tile Size Priority lower center wide Image Compare Image Compare Image Compare Image Compare VideoMosaic VideoMosaic VideoMosaic VideoMosaic VideoMosaic VideoMosaic Extract Video Extract Video Ciutrart Vid mm Red Priority 1 Green Priority Blue Priority Medium Detail Video Frames Video Frame Rate Default Frames Default Frame Rate Reverse Loop FourCC Minimum Cancel 1 1 1 MAX 2 frames FREQ frames sec 10 frames 10 frames sec all uncompressed Codec 30 frames 400 frames Tan Load Default Values
5. EEEIEE NEE EARNE EAE OEE oa 14 MO ICAO O a no k 14 5 2 0 JE 15 a L een 15 Tile Images Window r aranrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnannnnnennnnnennnnnennnnnennannennnnnennnnsennansennansennunsennunsnnnunsennnnee 16 PETTEE orreee ree ston EE E EE ERR EEEREN EN 16 Saving Loading and Creating a Tile Images List oorooovnnvvvn nn nnnn nn 17 BIAGIO IES NN 17 Extracting Images Frames from a Video Movie cccceccccceseeeeseeeseseetseeeetaneeetseeeteneees 17 More NS WINGOW cs esaccacnaracictcuasacuianseaannaaersauanwerancdanneaantoussnmuiancsanmsaaersauianeriaedantesantoatzace 18 Mosaic ParametersS rrarnnannnnnnnnrnnnenanevnnnnnnnnnrnnernanenannnannnnnnnsennnennnnnnsnnunnnsennnenanennnnnnenneennn 18 MAPS 18 image COMPIE eee e ne ea ao oa 19 Ne Pa 19 ET NE FN 19 AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 1 of 41 Use all tiles in the Tile LiISt ccc cece cece ccccccccccccccccccccccccauacacauacaeacueavauavavanavanatanavavanass 19 UDP MN EE o 19 SE TROP i ele EE RE 19 MOSAIC DINCCIONY sus EAR 20 Mose NN renen tarot o ovo 20 POSES FINERAME sen t 20 MSN DN Gil a AA AE 20 Text Report File and Mosaic Settings oooorovvnvvvv vvn nr nr nn 20 BEG 0840 0 1 EG Ol DO SON r r 20 SPE MOSS 20 Create a Maskie aanere i KE EOT NAKNE ANG OO O ANGI 21 THES TOM EMNENE 21 TIS BOVGC EE EE NE ie ada 22 Mosaics made from a vide0 raruvnrnrnvnnnrnvnnnvnvnnnvevnnnvevvnnvenvnnnenvnnn
6. a value higher than V500 2 7 In short higher values will lead to mosaics with a higher variety of different images but the overall quality of the mosaic will look worse Usually I set this number as high as possible based on the number of images in my Image Collection I suggest this table Images in the Tile Images List Duplicate spacing Less than 50 Between 50 and 200 Between 200 and 1000 Co Between 2000 and 5000 Over 5000 images 15 or higher values Color Change With this parameter you set how much each tile can be modified to make a better looking mosaic Higher values will produce better mosaics but each tile will look different than its main image Too high values will lead to ugly looking tiles The option Original will use each tile image as it is In the More Options gt Color Change Priority you can specify how the tiles are modified AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 13 of 41 Tile Variants Another trick to produce a better looking mosaic is to make variations of every image in your Tile Images List and AndreaMosaic does this automatically An image may not fit well if used as is but if rotated 180 degrees it maybe a better fit for a specific tile The tradeoff is that the image will look upside down Using the available checkboxes you can specify which variations are allowed Note that you must select at least one By default AndreaMosaic will allow mirroring the image rotating le
7. big each tile is As with the Mosaic Size you can specify any unit of measure and use the abbreviations to specify the size of each tile I suggest you make tiles no smaller than 1 5 cm half inch You can also specify the total number of tiles for example 2000 tiles In that case the size of each tile is calculated automatically In the Mosaic Information Box you can see the final size of each tile in pixels inch cm pe K PE TA Mosaic Information Mosaic Max 5ize 4960 x 3425 pixels Tile Size 659 x 493 pixels 325 KP Main Image 800 x 533 pixels Tile Pattern 8 x 7 63 tiles Final Mosaic 4960 x 3304 pixels 16 4 MP Tile Count 63 0 01 63 tiles File Size 7 4 MB Tile Type 45 L 18 P tiles Border Size 2 pixels List Type 15920 L 4458 P images Resolution 300 PPI osaic 33 33 gi Like OE O EEE EEE EEE SSS SSS SSS SSS EEE EEE EEE AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 11 of 41 Another possibility is to specify the number of tiles for each row for example 50 tiles x row In that case the Mosaic Information box will show the resulting size of each tile and the total number of tiles Note that the number of tiles is an approximate number Tile Parameters The Tile parameters described below will define the distribution of the tiles Pattern The pattern allows you to create mosaics where the t
8. for every MaskFile image contained in that special Folder An example of MaskFile is shown below AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 33 of 41 Oo 6 z LOG D 5 5 Cc 1 5 V PESE O AAS gt 8 8 225 TE a E s 1 a 25 EEEE md 0 o 340 Let s use our Teo as our input image and the default black color for the border 7 i Input Image Final Mosaic Detail of the center AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright O 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 35 of 41 Maskfile without a border Let s replace the white lines in our maskfile with black lines The resulting mosaic should have the same aspect but without any border at all Le s compare it with the previous example The resulting mosaic is similar but the missing border changes the overall feel trons u tar waa vike ER ai 4 v ZDA s an pa ta 8 i CH ees a a 4 he om gt Sm ER _ re y EG i whe J 4 m r ua Pl i ah bina Mosaic without border Maskfile with black lines je lt k 4 s a N om i sth ae Fife gt AN L sA oe I RE aa ez a f _ gt o 7 b gt lt EH JM ta Ge H gt 4 a Pa m 5 22 v F a 4 pf Un row ml A r yi EDA PA Mosaic with border Maskfile with white lines AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 36 of 41 Detai
9. the default option It will produce the best results in most cases Stronger This option will penalize images with higher differences Weaker This option allow images with higher differences Image Detail This option specifies how much detail is needed for the mosaic The best choice is automatic Automatic This is the default option It will produce the best results in most cases NO Deran Use one of these low detail values if vou have a small collection of SE ON PELAN Tile Images less than 1000 or if the detail isn t much important Low Detail Medium Detail This choice is a good balance High Detail Use one of these high detail values only with a very large collection Very High Detail of Tile Images 10 000 or more available for the mosaic Maximum Detail Color Change Priority This option specifies how the images in the Tile Images List are modified to produce a better looking mosaic The amount of Color Change is specified in the Main Window High Tile Quality This option gives a higher priority to the tile quality Only overall changes are allowed like color tonality and luminance Good Tile Quality This option gives a good priority to the tile quality but it also allows some degree of changes to better match the mosaic details Balanced Quality The default option balances the type of Color changes Good Detail Quality This option gives a good priority to details and color of the overall mosaic but the tiles wi
10. the possibility to create video mosaics Mac Linux not supported The final result is a Video AVI file where each frame is a photo mosaic AndreaMosaic tries to reproduce a still image where each tile is a video clip or a still image To realize this each video clip must be a relatively static video The main problem is to get a large collection of short video clips suitable for this use So here is a new feature that extracts short video clips from a common movie video Create Video Clips First of all we need to build a high number of short Video Clips with a fairly stable content 1 Select a video movie on your computer and resize it to the approximate size of the tiles in your mosaic A VideoMosaic at High Definition with 720 lines and 250 tiles will have a Tile Size of about 60x40 pixels With an HD 1080p VideoMosaic each tile will be still less than 100 pixels So it is totally useless to extract video clips from a High Definition Video at full resolution when the required size of your video clip is less than 100x80 pixels in most cases This suggestion is very important for performance reasons else it could take hours or days to create a VideoMosaic You need a video editing program to resize your video 2 Once we have a small video press the button 7 e Images gt Extract Tiles from Video You will be asked to select a video AVI file and if successful you will see the Extract Tiles Window with a preview of your video Deselect the x J
11. types AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 9 of 41 It is possible to transfer save those settings to another computer by copying the AndreaMosaicSettings txt files located in the AndreaMosaic program folder usually C Program Files AndreaMosaic If you enable the Mosaic Settings in the More Options Window then for each created mosaic there will also be a Mosaic Settings txt file containing all the specified mosaic parameters It is possible to reload those parameters for another mosaic with the button Main Image to reproduce as a Mosaic This area contains the image or list of the images you want to use as a matrix for creating your mosaic For each image AndreaMosaic will create a mosaic and save it in a subfolder located in the same folder as the main image You can add remove clear images from the list using the buttons i Q and respectively And you can add multiple images to the list by dragging them from Windows Explorer into the Main Interface Irregular Main Image You can specify an irregular main image by submitting a PNG file with a transparency layer In this case the transparent areas arent filled with tiles and will be shown in the preview with this pattern In that case the resulting Tile count will be less than the Tile Count specified in the Mosaic Information area Example Screenshot Main Image to reproduce as a Mosaic T Q C Users Andrea Pictures Mosaic Images Teo Z ri
12. AndreaPlanet m My door always open to vou presents AndreaMosaic Index Haag OCIUICHION EE K HOR K KKK ZADAT NA nosnosti 3 Main Features of AndreaMosaic ooorronovnv vv nn rn nr nn nn nn nn nn rn 3 Your GIESE Photographie MOSAE zapp io 4 1 Create a Tile Images Lis t ooooooonooo nn vn nr nn nn rn nn nn 4 2 Set the parameters of the Mosaic oooonovon vvn nn nn nr nr nt nn nn 6 9 Selec Ine Maln AA O ini ee 7 4 Create tN MOSAIC urviseren 7 Man VO 9 User Interface Language EE 9 Different Program versions cccccceececesececeececeeeeceuececeneeeceeeeseeeteeeeteeeeetsegeetsneeetseeenas 9 Load Save SettingsS oooooonnvn vvn nn r RR RR RR RR RR RR RR 9 Main Image to reproduce as a Mosaic oororovnnnnvn nn r nn nn nn nn nr 10 PCG V ed a o ean at baeusu ch saciencsniaiaasesiciaiet seskeneveinteeekieseieaes 10 EP 11 METER 11 Mosaic Resolution rrurernnrennunerranenranenranenvanenranenranenranenrunenrunenrunennunenrunennunennunennunsnnnnsennvee 11 VES Lange ono iron 11 EP EN 12 BCs ES SS SM SM SS 12 PETN 12 HEDIN yo trn 12 Use Sanie tl P LO setoocs estate ila PS PP 13 Duplicate spacing oooonovnvnnvn nn nn r RR RR RRP RR RR RR RR RR RR Eren nee 13 Color Change ecaacccesecesussnecenecensncnesanacasananesunanaeamenssataneeanenansunaanenansienseanenanceenmeaneeanmaemenntes 13 MEN TN 14 Custom TE VAN AIS eressero prairie io oa
13. Avi Splitter J B gt ffdshow Video Decoder J gt C gt Video Renderer vid Aud 24 Video Render OF Use 3 to play 5rc gt gt A AV Splitter B ffdshown Video Decoder gt C gt Video Renderer fall fall 1 Video Render OF Use 3 to play A 2 2 JET 3 lt Another free software is Medialnfo http mediainfo sourceforge net AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 26 of 41 MediaInfo M Butterfly wmv Eifel EX ale p View r Options 24 Debug i Help Language JA mCondivisionelButterfly wmv Le gt ontainer and general information Windows Media 2 67 MiB 10s 176ms 1 video stream VC 1 WMV3 Encoded date UTC 2006 03 08 01 44 40 600 Comment Courtesy of Robert Millis Used by Permission WM SharedUserRating 99 WM Category Sample Any ra irst video stream fe 1 895 Kbps 720 480 1 500 at 29 970 fps VC 1 WMV 3 NTSC MP ML Eg irst audio stream 96 0 Kbps 48 0 KHz 2 channels WMA Version 2 Go to the web site of this audio codec Note for more information about this file you must select a different view Sheet Tree 2 Second Step Install the Codec The second step is to find and install the correct codec The software K Lite Codec Pack has several VfW codecs as shown in this screenshot It supports among other things the common XVid DivX codec Don t install the full pac
14. Images List or loaded an existing one it is necessary to set all the parameters of the mosaic But for your first experiment you can leave the default values Later on with more experience and after reading the section The Parameters of AndreaMosaic you can try different values AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 6 of 41 3 Select the Main Image The third step is to choose what image you want to use as the Matrix of the mosaic The program will create a mosaic as close as possible to the main image 1 Press the button or drag a photograph from Windows Explorer in JPG format into the Main Window of AndreaMosaic 2 If you pressed the ty button then in the next window choose an image to use as the matrix If your image is in another format for example Bitmap BMP you can use any graphic program to save it in JPG After the selection press the Open button Look in vangogh L Recent places Desktop Libraries AM mS Computer Ga Fi ight j Network ile name 120px VanGogh stany_night jpg Files of type Image ipg png _ Open as read only Note You can add more images to convert into a Mosaic using the button again or dragging multiple files from Explorer into the Main Window 4 Create the Mosaic The last step is to create the mosaic 1 Press the button Create Mosaics PE 2 You only need some patience now Especially if you have many images in your Tile Im
15. PG option unless you also want to create a photomosaics and enable the x AVI option Press the button Random Frame and check that the white border is well visible and centered in the frame You can change the position size of the white rectangle with the button Auto or manually 3 When ready press the button Extract Right now this process will take a very very long time many hours and it may seem that AndreaMosaic is frozen But dont worry it is running without problems This step will create a new Folder in the same Folder as your video with many very short Video clips that have a relatively static scene There are several parameters that define how the video clips are extracted You can view change them with the new AVI button beside the checkbox At the end of the process you should have a good number of short video clips Repeat this process with other videos to build up a good collection of video clips In my first examples I extracted a collection of about 20 000 video clips from a few movies Move all your clips in a new folder Create a Tile List In the 7ile Images Window of AndreaMosaic 1 Create a new list of images videos to use as tiles with the New List button 2 From the drop down list of the type of Folders select Video Folders 3 Add to the list of folders the location of where you have saved all your short video clips created in the previous step 4 Press the button Save List to analyze your folders AndreaMosai
16. ably the simplest solution because otherwise you need a card in your PC to import the VHS into your computer and translate it into an AVI File Another solution is to read the movie from a DVD but you need a DVD Ripper that convert it into a video file avi or divx for example At last the only requirement is that you have a VfW video codec installed on your system that handles your movie correctly Please read the following chapter Video support in AndreaMosaic for detailed instructions 2 Second Step Extract the Images from the Movie AndreaMosaic has an integrated tool for extracting images from a movie But of course you can use any kind of program that analyzes the Movie file and extracts Images Instructions 1 Open the Tile Images dialog by pressing the button Tile Images 2 Then press the button Extract Tiles from Video 3 You will be asked to open an AVI MPG DIVX XVID file Those are only suggested extension Any file is ok if you have the correct codec installed 4 After you selected the file 4ndreaMosaic will show a dialog box with the parameters for extracting the Images from the movie Select the appropriate values and then press the button Extract to begin the process For a description of the parameters see the next section 5 The program will analyze the movie file and create several new subdirectories in the same location as the movie file with all the extracted images written into those subdirectories T
17. ages List more than 10 000 or if you want to create a mosaic with many tiles more than 5000 In that case the process can take many minutes or hours While creating the mosaic you can see the details of the process in the Mosaic Information area and the current step in the status line AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 7 of 41 O S Mosaic Information pixels j Mosaic Max Size 4960 x 3425 pixels Tile Size 659 x 493 pixels 325 KP Main Image 800 x 533 pixels Tile Pattern 8 x 7 63 tiles Final Mosaic 4960 x 3304 pixels 16 4 MP Tile Count 63 0472 044 63 tiles File Size 7 4 MB Tile Type 45 L 18 F tiles Border Size 2 pixels List Type 15920 L 4458 P images Resolution 300 FFI Like osaic 33 33 NG L 3 At the end of the process a message will confirm that the mosaic was successfully created asking if you want to open the folder where the mosaic is stored It is a subfolder with the same name and location as each Main Image You can also open the folder by clicking on the blue text below the Main Image list ige to reproduce as a Mosaic C mosaic test mosaic Teo jpg meters C mosaic test mosaic Teo Mosaic17 jpg re a7 Al AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 8 of 41 Main Window In this Chapter you will learn more about the main interface of AndreaMosaic and the main parameters for creating a mosaic User Interface Language
18. c 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 40 of 41 Create a Photo Mosaic Before creating your VideoMosaic you should first create a photo mosaic that will use the first frame of the VideoMosaic This is a fast and easy solution to tweak the parameters before building the final video 1 In the Main screen add an image to reproduce with the Mosaic 2 In the Mosaic Size parameter select a small size for your Mosaic I suggest one of the predefined values for example Video HD 720p But any size in pixels is ok 3 In the Tile Size parameter select a small value I suggest between 50 tiles and 500 tiles for a video mosaic 4 Play with the other parameters and at last build your mosaic If you like the result then you can proceed with the next paragraph Create a Video Mosaic Switching from Photo Mosaic to Video Mosaic and vice versa is very easy press the button More Options and select Video Mosaic uncompressed AVI in the File Format parameter You can also select the compressed Video Mosaic format smaller file size but in that case you will need to have install the required codecs and to specify it in the Advanced Settings I don t suggest this choice you can always use a Video Editing tool to compress your video mosaic later on Other parameters like the length of the Video Mosaic are specified in the Advanced Settings Advanced Settings There are some advanced settings that a common user normally doesn t change
19. can see the thumbnails of 50 images in one screen and delete immediately those that you dont like At last you can create the Image Collection based on the extracted frames AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 24 of 41 This is the movie extraction screen after opening one of my preferred movies Hi Extract Frames from Yideo Movie x Left 0 Top 6 Width 720 Height 05 Auto Max First 0 Count 5000 File Format 7 JPG BMP IL AVI Quality 90 File Prefix FR The extraction will create NEW subdirectories called FRAMES001 The white rectangle shows the part of the frame that will be extracted Modify Top Left Size FRAMES002 values and press the button Show Rectangle to update that rectangle Extract Cancel Show Rectangle First Frame Random Frame Last Frame Extract Frames from Yideo Movie uj Left 0 Top 6 Width 720 Height 05 Auto Max First 9 Count 5000 od File Format 7 JPG A l IL AVI A Quality 90 File Prefix FR The extraction will create NEW subdirectories called FRAMESO001 The white rectangle shows the part of the frame that will be extracted Modify Top Left Size FRAMES002 values and press the button Show Rectangle to update that rectangle Extract Cancel Show Rectangle First Frame Last Frame AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 25 of 41 Vide
20. can write your own size for example 38 or 38 cm or 38 MP The resulting mosaic will have its longest size no bigger than the value you specify You can also set the width and height separately for example 50x40 One particular case is with the size in pixels if you specify 5000 PX then the maximum width height is 5000 pixels but if you specify 50 MP then the total size width x height is 50 megapixels If you want the maximum possible size specify a value of 200 MP it will create the biggest possible mosaic for the standard version of AndreaMosaic If you need a bigger size you can get the professional version allowing to generate mosaics up to 8000 megapixels about 30 feet 10 meter at 300 PPI or 45 feet 15 meter at 200 PPI If you need more please contact the author of AndreaMosaic Mosaic Resolution With this parameter you choose how many pixels per inch you need for your mosaic The default resolution of 300 PPI pixels per inch is already very high it creates 90 thousand different color points per square inch with each point pixel having one color from a combination of 16 million different colors Normally you can accept the default resolution but if you are going to print a large mosaic 5 feet or more then I suggest you drop the resolution to 200 PPI or less or else you will be going over the 200 megapixel limit of the standard AndreaMosaic version Tile Size With this parameter you choose how many tiles you want or how
21. ch jpg Size Parameters C Users Andrea Pictures Mosaic Images Teo Ziirich Mosaic jpg Mosaic Size 3 feet v Mosaic Resolution 300 PPI v Tile Size 100 tiles v Tile Parameters Pattern Parquet 2L 1P 1 2 Tiles 0 1 4 Tiles 0 Use same tile up to unlimited times Duplicate spacing 3 tiles minimum Color Change 30 Tile Variants Oriainal Tile Mirror Rotated 90 Hip Vertically Rotated 180 Load Save Settings Mosaic Information Auto Save Mosaic Max Size 10 8 KP Tile Size 1017 x 762 pixels 0 77 MP Main Image 800 x 533 pixels Tile Pattern 11 x 10 117 tiles Final Mosaic 10 8 KP x 7195 pixels 77 7 MP Tile Count 117 0 2 0 117 tiles fia n A or File Size 222 MB Tile Type 76 L 41 P tiles Donate T Border Size 0 pixels List Type 550 L 7 P images Resolution 300 PPI Status S gt GigaPan f All Parameters are correct AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 10 of 41 Size Parameters The size parameters specify how big your mosaic will be and how big each tile will be These are the most important parameters Mosaic Size This value is the total size of the final mosaic You can specify any unit of measure shown in the drop down list pixels megapixels inch feet meter cm For your convenience abbreviations are also available for inch for feet PX for pixel MP for megapixel The list offers you some standard sizes but you
22. ct of your Tiles Then the Main Screen will appear Main Image to reproduce as a Mosaic Tutorial Please select a Tile Type or the Tutorial for more information Main Menu T C Users Andrea Pictures Mosaic Images Teo Z rich jpg Size Parameters Mosaic Size 3 feet v Mosaic Resolution 300 PPI v Tile Size 100 tiles vl Tile Parameters Pattern Parquet 2L 1P Ya Tiles 0 14 Tiles 0 Use same tile up to unlimited times Duplicate spacing 3 tiles minimum Color Change 30 Tile Variants Original Tile Rotated 90 Rotated 180 Load Save Settings O Auto Save Status Completed 68 33 Time 00 00 01 Saving Mosaic 18 38 Mirror C Flip Vertically Mosaic Information Mosaic Max Size 10 8 KP Main Image 800 x 533 pixels Final Mosaic 10 8 KP x 7195 pixels 77 7 MP File Size 222 MB Border Size 0 pixels Resolution 300 PPI Main Screenshot AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler C Users Andrea Pictures Mosaic Images Teo Z rich Mosaic jpg Tile Size 1017 x 762 pixels 0 77 MP Tile Pattern 11 x 10 117 tiles Tile Count 117 0 0 117 tiles Tile Type 76 L 41 P tiles List Type 550 L 7 P images gt GigaPan F Page 4 of 41 3 Hl 7 3 Press the top right button Tile Images In the new window that appears you can add the directories folders where your images are located usin
23. d in all your mosaics Please do not include too many images in such folders because the final quality of your mosaic will suffer c Exclude Folders All images contained in these folders will never be used as tiles Usually these folders are subdirectories of the Include Required Folders d Video Folders All AVI files contained in these folders will be used as video tiles Using the drop down box you can select the list to display and modify Use the Add Folder button to add one folder to the currently selected list You can use also drag from Windows Explorer one or more selected files directories to the folder list If you add a file then its parent directory will be added to the list Use the Remove Selected button to remove the selected folders from the list AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 16 of 41 Saving Loading and Creating a Tile Images List Using the four List buttons you will be able to Load Save or create a new List Open List New List Save List Save List As Use this button to open an existing tile images list you saved previously using the Save List buttons Use this button to start a new tile images list You need to add at least one folder to the include folder list Use this button to analyze the folder list searching for all available images JPG format in the Jnclude Required Folders and all its subfolders The images available in the Exclude Folders will not be include
24. d in the list of images to use as tiles When analyze is complete the tile images list will be saved into a file with usually the AMC extension Same as Save List button but you will specify a new file name for the list After you saved your current Tile Images List you can close this window and start creating a new mosaic Black amp White Mosaics The Black amp White option will let you create Black amp White mosaics without the need to do the conversion of all your tiles or of the final mosaic 4ndreaMosaic will do this process automatically on the fly Your original images will never be modified Another option for creating Black amp White mosaics is to use color tiles but a Black amp White image as the main image If you specify a high Color Change parameter something around 30 40 then the resulting image will look Black amp White but each tile will be a color tile with a low saturation Extracting Images Frames from a Video Movie Read the chapter Mosaics made from a Video for instructions on how to use this feature AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 17 of 41 More Options Window In this Chapter you will learn more about the advanced Mosaic Parameters Mosaic Processing Image Compare Image Detail Color Change Priority Use All Images in the Tile List Output Parameters File Format Mosaic Directory Mosaic Subdirectory Mosaic Filename Mosaic Web HTML Page Text Report am
25. e 90 because each image can be placed in any position by rotating it Status This area will show you any message about your parameters and also the current status of the mosaic creation Buttons Use this button to create stop the mosaic creation Use this button to select the images to use as tiles for the mosaics Use this button to access the More Options Window Some information about the current version of AndreaMosaic AndreaMosaic Copyright c 1997 2012 Andrea Denzler Version 3 33 14 Beta Tile Aspect Ratio 4 3 http AndreaPlanet com andreamosaic AndreaMosaic is a tool to create Photographic Mosaic images Read the Tutorial to learn how to get the best results http AndreaPlanet com andreamosaic artworks English Language by Andrea Denzler Please Help translating AndreaMosaic in more languages AndreaMosaic uses Open Source components from other authors special thanks to those authors Special Thanks to all the supporters Thank You Thank You Thank You open source Credits License License Online initiative Please support the development with a Donation What are you waiting for Create your first mosaic Discover and accept every truth it will change fear into love Help Ever Hurt Never You are what you think so think positive Only you can change your life so change what you don t like Give to others what you want to receive Love all and enjoy your life This button ope
26. e and create a tile for each contiguous colored area It is important to use uniform colors no shading or fading and to save the maskfile using the maximum JPG quality AndreaMosaic will recognize two special colors inside the maskfile e White anything that is white will be treated as the background No tiles will be placed there and in the final mosaic the white will be replaced with the Border color specified in the More Options window So the white color is useful to create a layout with borders or to create a layout where some areas of the mosaic will not contain tiles e Black color anything that is black will be merged with the nearest tile So this is useful to draw a tile using black lines or curves that will be removed in the final mosaic Note that colored areas that are too small will be merged with the nearest tile AndreaMosaic can help with the creation of a Mask File See the explanation on the parameter Create a Mask File of the Option Window How to create a mosaic using a MaskFile 1 Set the parameter Mosaic Size to the value Maskfile The parameters Tile Size Pattern and More Options gt Tile Borders are ignored The Mosaic Information will show only some of the usual information 2 When you press the button to create the Mosaic you will be prompted for a JPG file the MaskFile that contains the template for the Mosaic You can also specify a Folder containing several MaskFiles in that case a mosaic will be created
27. eaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 29 of 41 AndreaMosaic Professional for Big Mosaics The freeware version of AndreaMosaic has some limits in creating a photomosaic Maximum number of pixels in the final photo mosaic 200 Megapixel Maximum number of pixels in the final video mosaic 5 Megapixel Maximum number of tiles in the final mosaic 32 000 Tiles Maximum number of images in your Image Collection 100 000 Images However if you make a donation to support this program then you can get the Professional release where these limits are much higher Maximum number of pixels in the final photo mosaic 100 Gigapixel Maximum number of pixels in the final video mosaic 100 Megapixel Maximum number of tiles in the final mosaic 500 000 Tiles Maximum number of images in your Image Collection 500 000 Images If even these limits are too low for your needs then please contact me for specific help and Support AndreaMosaic Bonus Pack If you support the development of AndreaMosaic in any way then you will receive the optional Bonus Pack This pack contains a few more patterns and higher allowed values for the 1 2 Tiles and 4 Tiles parameters in the main screen For more information see the Donation page www AndreaPlanet com andreamosaic donation or also the Frequently Asked Question FAQ page www AndreaPlanet com andreamosaic fag AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 30 of 41 Mosaics wit
28. envnnnnevnnnnnnnnnnnnnvsnennsvenennusene 23 1 First Step Find a movie Video arernnnennnrennnvennuvennnnennnnennnnennnnennnnennnnennnnennnnennunennnr 23 2 Second Step Extract the Images from the Movie rrannrrnrnnnennnnnenrannennannennnnnnnnnnenne 23 9 TAA SEP Analyze 1M40CS season 24 Video support ITARdleaMosalE ae na oo nr a rh sk lidi 26 1 First Step Recognize the codec used in your Video ooonrrovnvvnv nr nnnnnnn 26 2 Second STEN s Install Ne COGCG z zraz a a a aa 27 3 Third Step Convert your Video ooosrronnnvo nn nn nnn nn nn nt nt nn nn 28 AndreaMosaic Professional for Big Mosaics ooroovnvvvnn vvn nn vvn nr nr 30 AliciedMOoSalGBONUS PACK usi E 30 Mos UNE UGS Lams en k 31 MEINE MOSAICS nien orla ov hlavn borka brod ras ai i asi Zohor 33 MENE WIEN a DONC aa 34 Maskfile without a border raruvnnnnnvnnnrnvnnnnennnnvennnnvenvnnnenvnnvenrnnnenvnnnnnsnnnnnnnnsnnnnvsnennsennnnvee 36 MASKE with color areas iii aa 38 VIGGO MOSAICS u av 40 Advanced SENSE o i i rn 41 AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 2 of 41 Introduction AndreaMosaic is a software that creates a photographic mosaic also known under the term Photomosaic a portmanteau of photo and mosaic trademarked by Runaway Technology Inc For more information visit the Wikipedia page about photographic mosaic To create such a mosaic you need a collection o
29. f images to use as tiles for the mosaic and you also need an image to use for the original as a matrix for the mosaics You can then set the parameters of the program to create different kinds of mosaics Main Features of AndreaMosaic Professional tool for production of high quality mosaics Clear and Easy User interface Automatic on the fly creation of image variants for higher mosaic quality Automatic cropping of images to fit the selected tile aspect ratio Advanced Mosaic rendering with intelligent color change for improved accuracy Advanced analysis of the images Optimal tile selection avoiding duplicates in the same area Handling of large image collections and very large mosaics Automatic Extraction of images from videos and creation of videomosaics Four different tile aspect ratios 1 1 4 3 16 9 3 2 Free for personal commercial use SN NON NN SONS SS Main Image Mosaic with 49 Tiles Main Image to reproduce as a Mosaic 4 C Users Andrea Pictures Mosaic Images Teo Ziirich jpg Size Parameters C Users Andrea Pictures Mosaic Images Teo Z rich Mosaic jpg Duplicate spacing 3 tiles minimum v Color Change 30 Tile Variants v Original Tile v Mirror vi Rotated 90 Flip Vertically Rotated 180 Load Save Settings osaic Information G Auto Save Mosaic Max Size 10 8 KP Tile Size 1017 x 762 pixels 0 77 MP jain Image 800 x 533 pixels Tile Pattern
30. ft right by 90 degrees and of course the original image as it is The following table shows the available variations SS a bey a AEE BA S v m 3 90 Left Rotate 900 Right gee 3 LAT Flip Vertically R 90 Left Mirror R 90 Ri gt y a ght Mirror Mirrored Custom Tile Variants You can create your own custom variations if you set the More Options gt Mosaic Processing parameter to the value Custom Tile Variants You must then provide a different image for each variant you want to create using a special file naming convention You do not have to provide one or more variations for each original image Example You want to add 45 degrees Rotation as well as a cropped version of the Lizard jpg file To do this we add three underscores to the original file name followed by the variation name The resulting files with different sizes will look like Ar gt Ne Lizard Original jpg Lizard Rotated45 jpg Lizard CroppedToEve jpg Using the High Quality or Faster processing AndreaMosaic would treat those three files as different images Using the Custom Tile Variants processing AndreaMosaic will handle those three files as variations of the same image just like Mirroring Rotating 90 and so on It will take advantage of the Tile Duplication parameters where AndreaMosaic tries to avoid placing duplicated tiles near each other Note that AndreaMosaic will apply the Mirror
31. g the Add Folder button or doing a Drag amp Drop from Windows Explorer into the Folder List You can also add individual images using the Add Image button Location of the Tile Images List Images List C Users Andrea Pictures Mosaic Images Example Image List amc New List Save List Save List As Folder Type Include Images Folders Populate using Drag amp Drop or Add Image Folder button Folder C Users Andrea Pictures Mosaic Images example Folder List Add Folder Remove Selected Extract Tiles from Video Black amp White Status 550 Landscape images 7 Portrait images S OK 4 If you used the Add Folder button then you will be asked to select a directory Note that only directories are shown not the images Please select a Folder containing JPG images b EI My Documents A My Music g E Ny Pictures 4 k Mosaic Images a example gt pr art cars di cities 17 nature Make New Folder AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 5 of 41 5 If you want to add multiple directories you can also use Windows Explorer select several directories and Drag them into the Folder List Tile Images Location of the Tile Images List Images List Open List ay C mosaic example EJ Include Folders Populate using Di x Nome 3 dex A planes E IG elan other a example mi travel H art Jed tu a Folder List IG planes 3 e 1 Ssl SB
32. h few tiles I think that the most beautiful photo mosaics are those made with fewer tiles that are still able to reproduce the main image Mosaics in this category are made with less than 600 tiles The main problem is that you need good tiles so it is usually necessary to have a very high number of images in your Image Collection I usually use at least 20 000 nature photos How to create a mosaic with few tiles 1 Prepare a Tile Images List with many images 2 Set the parameter Tile Size to a number between 100 tiles and 600 tiles I usually use 250 or 500 3 Choose an Image to transform into a mosaic that has few and big details and with several different rich colors Here are some examples wAndrea Planet AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 31 of 41 we Nalej zle A O Plane AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright O 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 32 of 41 Irregular Mosaics When I wrote this program I wanted to create irregular mosaics So this is a first attempt on the path of irregular photomosaics Write to me if you have any questions about this feature The MaskFile You first need to create a Maskfile This is a regular image where each colored area will be replaced with a tile from your tile images list The size of the maskfile determines the size of the final mosaic cropped to match the aspect ratio of the input image AndreaMosaic will analyze the maskfil
33. he program will never cancel or overwrite existing directories images so you have to remove the images manually if you repeat the process more than once AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 23 of 41 Parameters of Extract from Movie Window Frame Size Position Left Top Width Height The first four parameters are the size of the frame that you want to extract Normally you can leave the default values but if you see in the Sample Frame that the white rectangle is bigger than the image then you should change the values to a smaller frame Whenever you change the position or size you need to press the button Show Frame to update the white rectangle If you can not see the image of the movie well try with a different frame by pressing the button Random Frame It will choose another image Frame Selection First Last These two parameters let you choose which interval of frames should be extracted The default values are set to extract the full movie But you can specify different values for example to discard the first few images You can then press the button First Frame or Last Frame to show the first visible frame you chose Frame Selection Count Usually in a movie there are a lot of frames and a lot of these are similar to each other So practically we only need a small number of images Here you can choose how many images you want I suggest 5000 as a minimum value but if you can also try 20 000 frames Th
34. iles have different placements If you change this value you will see a visual preview of the final mosaic pattern The following groups of patterns are available Pattern Description O gt O The mosaic will contain tiles in Landscape Horizontal format only If your Tile Images List has Portrait tiles then you must activate Tile Variants x Rotate 90 or these images will not be used Portrait The mosaic will contain tiles in Portrait format only If your List has Landscape Square tiles then you must activate Tile Variants x Rotate 90 or these images will not be used images For example Mixed 3 8L 1P means that for each portrait tile in the mosaic we will have nearly 4 3 8 tiles in landscape format Parquet The mosaic will contain a mix of images in Landscape amp Portrait format The tiles are mixed like in a Parquet pattern As with the Mixed format the two Mixed The mosaic will contain a mix of images in Landscape amp Portrait format The tiles are placed alternatively by landscape or portrait rows The two numbers shows the ratio between landscape square images and portrait numbers show the ratio between landscape sguare images and portrait images If you use the Mixed Parquet pattern then look at the line List in the Mosaic Information area It will show you how many tiles in landscape square format you have in your Tile Images List and how many images in portrait format See the Mosaic Information paragra
35. ing Rotating Flipping variants to each of the three images producing in this case a total combination of 3 files x 8 variants 24 different images Mosaic Information This area will show you information about the resulting mosaic the final size in pixels but you can view it in nch or cm too the number of tiles for each row and column and the total number of tiles the size of each tile the size of the border for each tile and so on The List line shows the number of images videos in your Tile Images List that are in AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 14 of 41 Landscape Square format plus the number of images that are in Portrait format This information is useful when choosing the Pattern of our Mosaic If we dont want to allow left right rotations of our tiles Tile Variation Rotate 90 choosing a pattern with a proportion of Landscape and Portrait tiles similar to the proportion in the Tile Images List will give optimal results and better utilizes all the tiles Suppose that in the Mosaic Information we read List 300 Landscape Images and List 100 Portrait Images This means that our list contains 300 images in landscape square format and 100 images in portrait format An optimal pattern would then be Parquet 3L 1P or Mixed 3 8L 1P because for each portrait image we will use about 3 landscape images The selection of the pattern is not important if we allow Tile rotations x Rotat
36. is will produce better mosaics since you have more images especially with long movies The program will tnen extract 5000 frames evenly distributed between the first and last frame you chose in order to get the best possible Images without too many similar ones De Interlace Set this option only if you see strange horizontal lines disturbing the image This can occur especially when your movie file was recorded with a video camera or converted from a VHS cassette It is better to avoid the use of De Interlace because technically by removing the lines this option reduces the image quality File Format If you want to use the images to create mosaics then you have to choose x JPG Format The BMP option is only here for your convenience Quality This parameter is only needed if you save JPG Images it specifies the compression of every image Higher values result in bigger files but also better quality A default value of 50 is O K but you can use higher or even lower values When used to create mosaic the frames will be resized to smaller images so usually it is not necessary to set a high quality I suggest a value of at least 70 3 Third Step Analyze Images Once you have extracted a good amount of images use an Image Browser to take a look at all the frames I suggest deleting duplicates or images that are not nice I always check all the frames With a good image browser I suggest the free FastStone Image Viewer you
37. kage but only the VfW codecs as described here gai Setup K Lite Codec Pack Select Components Which components should be installed u Other filters z tl ee ee fish FW pEr e E Xvid 1 2 2 YPF A M huffyuv Myrviz z ACM audio codecs OO MP3 LAME LI O AC3ACM vi Current selection requires at least 19 7 ME of disk space Help Back Cancel Download the Mega version here http www codecguide com download kl htm Run the setup and select Advanced Mode Then click Next until you reach the Select Components Window From the list box choose the last profile option Deselect All Then scroll down the list and select only the VFW Video codecs Click Next until installation is complete a ae AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 27 of 41 3 Third Step Convert your Video If you are still unable to open the video then you are probably still missing the proper Codec on your system For example the Microsoft WMV or QuickTime MOV codecs are not supported by VfW One workaround is to convert your Video into the AVI format using the XVid codec 1 Download install unzip and run the free AviDemux program http www videohelp com tools AviDemux 2 Open your video file and select the destination format Video Codec MPEG 4 Xvid Audio Codec AC3 File Format AVI With the Filters button you may add some extra processing like resizing the Video to a ve
38. l of the center without border o po m SN jeg Detail of the center with border Which one is better is a matter of taste The missing border offers a more artistic mosaic The border helps to better recognize the individual tiles AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 37 of 41 Detail of the Maskfile with black lines the black border will be removed Maskfile with color areas You do not need to build a maskfile with lines to separate the tiles AndreaMosaic can use different color areas to make the tiles And you can also mix white and black lines areas in the same mosaic In the next example we have several polygons built over a white background so that the M area will not contain any tiles ha Detail of the MaskFile The resulting mosaic will replace the white color with the default black border color Pa Bia a Min y p F osaic with partial areas AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 38 of 41 ae replaced with main image Using a Photo Editor I replaced the black background with the main image resized to match the final mosaic The mosaics in these examples were built with the sample image collection containing only 500 photos The more images in our tile images list the better the final result AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 39 of 41 Video Mosaics A recent introduction is
39. light Technology This option works well also if you allow the splitting of the final mosaic Split Mosaic If selected the final mosaic is split into several separate images When creating the mosaic you will be asked how to perform this split You need to set the Width and the Height in one of the three available units pixels tiles or columns rows This option is useful for very large mosaics as supported by the Professional Version of AndreaMosaic If your mosaic is AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 20 of 41 over the limits of the saved file format then a message suggest to enable this feature or to Switch to the PPM RAW PSB format The PSB or PPM format is the preferred choice Mosaic Size Height Size in tiles 5 x 7 56 Size in pixels 560 x 3304 16387840 Split Size Width Height Total Size in tiles 7 50 x 6 07 50 09 Size in pixels 4960 x 3904 16367640 Number of Splits x 1 1 Screenshot of the Split Mosaic Parameters e When inserting one of the Width or Height values then the other values of the column are automatically updated e If you want each Split to have a specified size then enter the Width Height in Size in Pixels If you want all Splits to have the exact same size then enter the Width Height in Number of Splits e If you want to specify the size of each Split in Inch Feet cm meter then you must convert your size into pixels using the PPI specified in the Resolu
40. ll be changed in all aspects High Detail Quality This option gives a high priority to details and color of the overall mosaic The tiles will be changed in all their aspects tonality luminance saturation contrast and local changes Use all tiles in the Tile List If this option is enabled then AndreaMosaic tries to use all tiles in the collection regardless of their match with the main image This option has effect only if the Tile Images List has less images than the number of tiles in the mosaic Output Parameters These parameters specify how the mosaic is saved and what files are created File Format You specify the file format and its compression PPM RAW TIFF BMP PSB PSD will give best quality because there is no lossy compression The PSB PPM file format is the best for giant mosaics several gigapixels AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 19 of 41 Mosaic Directory This parameter allows you to save the mosaic in a different directory than the main image The input image directory will be used by default Mosaic Subdirectory You can specify a subdirectory to be created for each mosaic e Do not create subdirectory all mosaic will be saved into the Mosaic Directory e Create a subdirectory one subdirectory will be created for each input image e Create a new subdirectory one subdirectory will be created for each mosaic If you run the program multiple times with the same input image then a new
41. mn Oggetti selezionati 4 Risorse del computer 6 From the Drop Down list below the Open List button you can populate the Required Folders and the Exclude Folders The Required Folders will contain images that are always used in your mosaic Please don t have too many images in those folders because your mosaic will be less beautiful The Exclude Folders are subdirectories of the Include Folders that you don t want to use for the tile list 7 After you complete populating the Include Folders press the button Save or Save As AndreaMosaic will analyze all the JPG files that are in those directories and subdirectories You have to wait for the program to reach 100 You can cancel the process by pressing the OK button 8 When the program reaches 100 you will be asked for a location to save the Tile Images List Choose any location and any name The creation of your List is now complete and you can go back to the Main Window You only need to do this the first time In your future use of the program you can directly load your List using the Open List button Note Whenever you change the images available in your Include Folders moving deleting adding updating etc you must tell AndreaMosaic about those changes by pressing the Save List button again Whenever you do press this button AndreaMosaic will verify that all images are available 2 Set the parameters of the Mosaic After you created the Tile
42. ns the User Manual you are reading now A This button will allow you to change languages This button will open the Web Page for supporting AndreaMosaic You can receive the Bonus Pack or the Professional Version This button will open the Web Page with the various Social Networks connected to AndreaMosaic AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 15 of 41 Tile Images Window In this Chapter you will learn more about how to create a Tile Images List in other words how to select the images to use as tiles for your mosaic Location of the Tile Images List Images List C Users Andrea Pictures Mosaic Images Example Image List amc New List Save List Save List As Folder Type Include Images Folders Populate using Drag amp Drop or Add Image Folder button Folder C Users Andrea Pictures Mosaic Imagestexample Folder List Add Folder Remove Selected Extract Tiles from Video Black 8 White Status 550 Landscape images 7 Portrait images OK Tiles Images Window Selecting the Folders Using the Add Folder Remove Selected buttons or dragging folders from Windows Explorer into this Window you will be able to populate the list of folders containing the images you want to use as tiles There are three list of folders a Include Images Folders All images contained here will be used as tiles if they fit the mosaic well b Required Folders All images contained here will always be use
43. o support in AndreaMosaic The most common problems occurs when trying to open the AVI file AndreaMosaic is using a older and more simple technology called Video for Windows or VfW It requires to have a VfW compatible codec installed This feature is only available under Windows no Mac Linux support 1 First Step Recognize the codec used in your Video Download and Run the GSpot program http en wikipedia org wiki GSpot Add your video to it It will show you what codec is required In the following example we need a DX50 codec see the Red Rectangle This code DX50 is the FourCC character that uniquely identifies the codec It is also called DivX GSpot v2 70a Kung Fu 2x02 Un vero amico EUR File System Options Tables Help C Codec DX50 Name DivX 6 0 3 Fusion Tt 202 Te Path D skung Fu 2x0 n vero amico av ri Bish Codecfs are Installed SET Slee 350 MB 358 616 KB 7 367 223 296 Livi Bn GEG GEREN o gt a Jo FEL 5170 5240 oTh HER ee Fa le e 1 max ir el 103 7 avg 300 max t Pics 25 000 Frames s 25 000 Fields s FROG I L TFF BFF PPF 3 FAL NTSC d pic w 640 x 430 seg ext 4 5 16 3 sar 1 333 4 3 par 1 000 1 1 dar 1 333 4 3 Resizing I Even 1 CE E info Audio Codec 0x0055 MPEG 1 Laver 3 ET Baa Info 48000H2 80 kb s tot Stereo ME ol Stat Codecs Installed Proposed Codec Solutions and Tests GSpot MS bro gt Ao
44. p Mosaic Settings Deep Zoom Composer Split Mosaic Create a Maskfile Tiles from Video Movies Don t use consecutive Tile Borders Color Size User Interface Check for updates Darameters of AndreaMosaic x High Quality Best Quality Automatic Balanced Quality LI High Quality JPG 95 Ile Do not create subdirectories vw Use Directory of Input Image Save a new Mosaic No Web Page Black vw No Border vw Beta every week w Check Now Show ToolTips Cancel Advanced Settings More Options Window Mosaic Parameters These parameters affect how the mosaic is created the tile modifications the processing used etc Mosaic Processing This option specify how the images are selected High Quality This is the default option It will produce a better mosaic in most cases The only drawback is a higher memory usage Faster This is a faster processing that uses the best image for every tile It also uses less memory but the quality is generally lower and with very big mosaics it is also slower Custom Tile Variants Custom Tile Variants is based on High Quality and it allows you to specify your own tile variations See the Tile Variants parameters for more information about this option AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 18 of 41 Image Compare This option specifies how the images are compared to each other Best Quality This is
45. ph below for advice on how to use this information 12 Tiles and 4 Tiles When greater than 0 then these two parameters will split existing Tiles of the Pattern in 2 Tiles or in 4 Tiles The percentage determines how many tiles are split AndreaMosaic will choose automatically which tiles to split to improve the overall quality of the Mosaic If for example I set Tile Size 1000 Tiles and 12 Tiles 10 then AndreaMosaic will split 10 of the 1000 Tiles That means that the resulting Mosaic will have 900 Tiles with the standard size and 100 Tiles split in 2 producing 200 smaller Tiles The effective final number of Tiles is then around 1100 The Mosaic Information Area will show those values Tile Duplication The two tile duplication parameters specify how many times an image of your Tile Images List can be used for the final mosaic improving its quality The duplication is necessary if you have less images in your tile images list than tiles in the mosaic For example if your Tile Images List is made of 500 images but you want to create a mosaic of 2000 tiles you AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 12 of 41 must allow the duplication at least 4 times If not you will get black tiles Another reason for allowing tile duplication is to improve the overall quality of the mosaic It is suggested to specify just one of the two parameters both are usually not necessary Use same tile up to One possibili
46. ry small size in order to use it as tiles for the VideoMosaic EA greenpeace wmv Avidemux File Edit View Video Audio Tools Go Auto Custom Help 28028 GE SE Configure Filters Audio Configure Filters shift fo H ms Format AVI v Pile xi O O O O QO O mi V 3 OQ A 000000 Frame o 2187 Time 00 00 00 000 00 01 27 480 Frame Type I 05 B 002187 g att AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright O 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 28 of 41 3 Add Job select File gt Add to Job List Then insert a jobname and the Output file In this case C greenpeace avi greenpeace wmv Avidemux File Edit View Video Audio Tools Go Auto Custom Help 40e w BISOBCE Recent Files gt Append Ctrl Alt A Save gt e Close Ctrl W ag Pile Es T Information Alt Return m Load Run Project amp Save Project l Save Project As Job name greenpeace Output File C greenpeace avi i View Joblist Ctrl 3 Connect to avsproxy Quit tr I mm 6 Selection O O O O O O m iI V 33 V A 009000 Frame 0 2187 Time 00 00 00 000 00 01 27480 Frame Type I 05 B 002187 4 View and Run Job Select File gt View Job List Then press button Run All Jobs EJ Jobs greenpeace js i Ready I When completed you can try to open the resulting Video in AndreaMosaic It should work EA Encoding EE Andr
47. subdirectory will be always created Mosaic Filename This option allows you to specify the filename of the saved mosaic e Save anew mosaic a new file name will always be used Mosaic1 Mosaic2 etc e Overwrite existing mosaic the file name will always be the same Input Image Mosaic Note that if you create a new subdirectory the final mosaic will have the Same name but it will be created in a different directory Mosaic Web HTML Page If selected AndreaMosaic will create a web page with the pixel size specified in the option Text Report File and Mosaic Settings If selected AndreaMosaic will create a text file containing general information about the mosaic and a table of all the used images The columns are Description Position Coordinates of the Tile in Pixels Left x Top For example a coordinate of 100x600 means that the tile starts 100 LE TT from the left and 600 pixels from the top The file name of the tile S O has a meaning only if you use the Sequence algorithm Difference The difference between the Tile and the main image Lower values mean the tile is more similar to the main image A theoretical value of 0 means the tile and the main image are nearly the same Used Count How many times that tile was used inside the mosaic Deep Zoom Composer If selected AndreaMosaic will create a Deep Zoom Composer Project file that you can publish on your web page using Deep Zoom Composer and Microsoft s Silver
48. the frames are very similar If this happens I suggest to use a value for this parameter In other words if you set a value of 5 then two tiles can only be close to each other if there are at least 4 frames between two tiles inside the sequence of the frames I suggest to slowly increase this value as needed for a particular Tile Images List IMPORTANT NOTE The sequence parameter will only be used for directories or files that contain the name FRAMES So you could have in one Image Collection both Frames using the Sequence Algorithm and standard images using the normal Distance Algorithm Tile Borders This parameter allows you to specify a border around every tile This is useful to better separate the tiles from each other You can specify any color for the border as well as its size using one of the standard unit of measures pixels inch cm etc AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 22 of 41 Mosaics made from a video Movies are great for mosaics because they contain a lot of images and as you know we need a lot of images to create good photographic mosaics 1 First Step Find a movie video Your first step is to find a movie video and to import it into an AVI file For example Use your video camera to make some nice movies while you are on holiday Rent or buy a VHS cassette or a DVD Download a movie video avi divx file from the internet Downloading something from the internet is prob
49. tion If your Resolution is 300 PPI then 1 inch 300 pixels 1 foot 12 inch 3600 pixels 1 cm 118 11 pixels 1 meter 11811 pixels Create a Maskfile Please first refer to the section on Irregular Mosaic to understand what a Mask File is If selected then AndreaMosaic will create a special file with the suffix Maskfile jpg containing the currently selected Mosaic pattern converted into an Image It is possible to edit modify this pattern and use it later as a template for new patterns like for the creation of irregular mosaics To use this file please specify MaskFile the Mosaic Size parameter Tiles from Video Movie files Don t replicate consecutive frames specify this parameter only if your tiles are frames extracted from a movie and to avoid that two similar frames be placed near each other All frames within the distance of this value are supposed to be similar For a custom distance replace nnnn with the value you want AndreaMosaic 3 34 Copyright 1997 2013 Andrea Denzler Page 21 of 41 If your image collection is an extraction from a movie file then it probably includes many similar images called frames and they are near each other The filenames are all in the form MYMOVIE_FRAMES001 FRO0001 JPG MYMOVIE_FRAMES001 FRO0002 JPG MYMOVIE_FRAMES001 FRO0003 JPG So even if you use a high value for the Distance parameter of duplicated tiles the program may use many similar images for an area of the mosaic because
50. ty is to limit the number of times an image in the Tile Images List can be used inside the mosaic The disadvantage with this option is that the same tile can appear several times close to each other in wide areas of similar colors To specify a maximum count for an individual image you can include MAX n in its filename with n being the maximum duplication count Example The image MyFlower_MAX 20 jpg will be duplicated up to 20 times The MAX n parameter can also be used in a folder name so that all images within that folder will have the custom duplication value Remember to re save the Tile List whenever you rename add remove Image files used by the Mosaic Duplicate spacing With this option you specify the minimum distance between two duplicated tiles A value of 2 tiles minimum means that there will be at least one tile between an image extracted from the Tile Images List and its copy The variations of an image are to be considered as a duplication Also the custom variations see the More Options are treated as a duplication Note that you need to have enough images in the Tile Images List a minimum distance of N tiles requires at least N 2 2 tiles in your Tile Images List so a distance of 5 tiles requires about 5 2 2 100 images in the tile images list But you probably need more images To calculate the maximum value use the reverse logic so if your Tile Images List has for example 500 images then you should not use
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