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Creating mosaic pictures
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Creating mosaic pictures
During crossfading, after the last step of creating mosaic picture,
the error message "Couldn't blend pictures." appears. What can I do?
This bug is fixed in version 5 of Foto-Mosaik-Edda. There you have
to setup the crossfading factor before calculating the mosaic picture.
Please install the newest version of Foto-Mosaik-Edda.
Why is the quality of my created mosaic pictures not so good?
Foto-Mosaik-Edda needs, like any other mosaic software, a huge amount of
pictures in the database. The more pictures existing in the database,
the better the quality of the mosaic picture becomes.
In the mosaic options I can setup a tile aspect
ratio of 4:3, 3:4 or 1:1. Can I create mosaic pictures with a custom aspect ration
of the mosaic tiles (e.g. 2:3)?
In the freeware version of Foto-Mosaik-Edda, the tile format is a constant preset. If you need
a custom format of the mosaic tiles, take a look to the
commercial version.
During saving the calculated mosaic picture, some of the
following error messages appear: "Error while saving picture", "The handle is invalid",
"Für diesen Befehl ist nicht genügen Speicher verfügbar",
"Resourcen ausgelastet" or "Nicht genügend Speicher verfügbar". What can I do?
Please make sure, that you are using the newest version of
Foto-Mosaik-Edda.
The error message appears when the mosaic picture and its data are too big for the
memory. Try to reduce the resolution of the mosaic picture, until it works.
The mosaic picture should not have more than 75 MegaPixel of resolution.
It might help, if you are using "Bitmaps (*.bmp)" as file type of the mosaic
picture.
Database
How can I add pictures from a movie to the database?
The freeware Free Video to JPG Converter
makes video snapshots and can extracts frames from video files to JPG. After
extracting the pictures from the video file, you can add them like normal
photos to the database of Foto-Mosaik-Edda.
Graphic
Which file formats are supported from Foto-Mosaic-Edda?
Foto-Mosaik-Edda supports:
- BMP - Windows Bitmaps
- JPEG/JPG - Joint Photografic Expert Group
- GIF - Compuserve "Graphics Interchange Format"
- PNG - Portable Network Graphic Format
Software/Operating System
Do you offer a command line version of Foto-Mosaik-Edda, to
create automated mosaic pictures?
There is no command line interface in the freeware version of Foto-Mosaik-Edda.
If you are interested in a command line version of Foto-Mosaik-Edda,
for example to create automated mosaic pictures,
then you can purchase such version.
Is there a Mac / Linux version of Foto-Mosaik-Edda?
No, there is not. But you can try to run the software with the runtime environment
Wine (for Linux-Distributions)
or rather Darwine (for
Mac OS X).
Which operating systems are supported from Foto-Mosaik-Edda?
Without additional runtime environment Foto-Mosaik-Edda runs on Windows 9x, Windows
NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista.
I want to reinstall my operating system. How can I
backup the configuration of Foto-Mosaik-Edda?
The configuration of Foto-Mosaik-Edda is stored in the Windows Registry.
To backup the settings, do the following:
- In the Windows Start Menu: Execute (alternatively Windows-Key + R) →
regedit
- in the treeview navigate to the key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Foto-Mosaik-Edda
- with the right mouse button on the key: Foto-Mosaik-Edda
→ Export
- Save the file on your backup disk (file extension .reg).
After reinstalling your operating system you only have to double click the
backup-file and choose "yes" to restore your configuration.
I am using version 5.4.0 of Foto-Mosaik-Edda.
During saving the mosaic picture sometimes the error message
"JPEG-Error #36" appears. What can I do?
This is a known bug. Please download the
newest version of Foto-Mosaik-Edda.
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