Imagesynthmanual

image Synth Reference Guide Luxology Image Synth Understanding Image Synth I mage synth is designed to allow you to find new ways to use existing images. There are two main results of using image synth. First it can use lower resolution images to create larger ones and secondly it creates maps that are perfectly tiling. There are many ways to feed the Image Synth engine. You can use a complete single image to grow a new one, you can use multiple images to blend into something new and/or you can use fragments or “chunks” of single or image Synth Reference Guide multiple images. While Image Synth may seem like magic, it really isn’t. In fact, while Image Synth can work miracles it is highly dependant on the seed images that you choose. Once you understand a few basic guidelines for choosing and preparing seed images you will be amazed with what you can accomplish nearly automatically. Navigating the Interface Input Images This is the image bin where you add and manage seed images and their “chunks”. There are two buttons located at the bottom of the Input Images bin, Add and Remove. Add: Pressing the Add button allows you to open new seed images into imageSynth. Use the file requestor to navigate to the desired file, select the file and press enter or click OK. imageSynth can load most standard image formats. If you have an image that will not load into imageSynth you can most likely convert it in Photoshop. PNG happens to be a favorite around here as it is loss less and compresses nicely. Remove: Pressing the Remove button will delete the currently selected seed image from the imageSynth session. You can select multiple images by holding the Shift key down and clicking on the images in the Input images bin. image Synth Reference Guide Once you have Added a seed image to the session you will see that the two columns in the Input images bin provide a preview of the image and informative text. You may also note that there is a small + icon just to the left of the preview image. Clicking the + will expand the list of “chunks” derived from the seed image. By default each see image has a single “chunk” associated with it that encompasses the entire seed image. You may also notice there is a Chunk ID number and probability rating. These are used wh…