Hello everyone.

It is a pity to tell, but the Developer has found and fixed a bug in the program, so we have just updated the build.

Please re-download GOTD pack to be able to install the application.


Sorry for the inconvenience.

Have a nice day,
GOTD team

Giveaway of the Day project team  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+114)

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I like Artensoft Photo Mosaic Wizard, although this 1.5 version could use some minor improvements. The install was clean. It generates an indexed database of your pictures, but also appears to generate an index file per picture. This process is quite slow, and the default placement in your Pictures folder is a very bad idea, I'd put them someplace else. Also, it can include a folder and optionally all subfolders, but it should be changed to work like most backup programs, where selecting a folder selects all subfolders, but you can expand the folder tree and deselect particular subfolders. It automatically crops and scales the pictures. I disagree with #4, Rob, about the rotation and mirroring options, I think they're where they should be. You select the number of images in the mosaic, and it generates the mosaic (relatively quickly on my PC). You can then change the particular images used from a list per position. Curiously, I thought that many of the optional images looked quite different and it seemed to me that many of them would mess up the result. It's true that the zooming could be better. You select the output size and format when you save the result. It scales the images correspondingly. The save process can be very slow, it should have a progress indicator.

There are a number of ways to display a mosaic on your website. Probably the best and easiest is a Microsoft Labs site, Seadragon. Presently it's free, but that may change. Here's a link to Artensoft's tiger mosaic on Seadragon. You're supposed to own the copyright, but I'm only supplying the link here in relation to Artensoft Photo Mosaic Wizard, and Artensoft themselves used images for which they don't own the copyright when creating the mosaic. The mouse-wheel doesn't work for me when viewing full-screen, but does work windowed. Note that this is using the mosaic on Artensoft's website, which is smaller than the one contained in their .zip file.

As much as I hate Microsoft, some of the photography-related stuff coming out of their labs is interesting. They have a bunch of websites and tons of free tools. Microsoft Photosynth is cool, and they offer both free public and paid commercial licenses. Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor is a great tool and the site contains links to other tools and sites.

#8, Jay, that error is usually due to your security software scanning the temporary file created by Setup. If you can't work around it, try disabling your anti-virus / anti-malware software.

Fubar  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+70)

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Awesome.

Works great in Win7 64 bit.

The picture variaton is important, if you dont have enough pics in a certain shade you'll see a ton of duplicates in that area.
Takes longer according to pic size, so you might want to batch convert the size forst if you plan on using the same pis in different mosaics.

Will not make mosaic if not enough pictures are loaded.

Dislike:
There is options for Mirror and rotate of the mosaic pieces, but those options are on the fly while it's actually placing them, it's too late, and should be in the option tab at the tob. The option tab has almost no options.

Would like to see more options, and the preview panel zooming works, but it doesn't make sense. It should zoom in one way, and out the other.

Grab this one for your collection. Lots of fun

Thanks GAOTD

Rob  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+40)

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Unless you have the 1500 pictures needed to even start creating the mosaic then steer well clear of this one.
Downloading the supposedly helpful facility from artensoft of a quantity of pictures takes up 80 megabytes of your storage, as well as taking an age to get to a stage to be able to use them.
Trying this one on a celeron laptop was slow, tedious, frustrating and in the end proved to be a total waste of time as the mosaic eventually generated didn't even save (was that the bug?).
I'd say back to the drawing board with this one artensoft.
I can only think the initial couple of seemingly positive comments were made by the software makers themselves!

Dave London  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+30)

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Downloaded and installed okay on a WinXP SP3 from the initial offering (pre-bug fix), but I was a little taken aback when I was asked to include between 1500 (minimum) and 5000 (ideal) photos to make one mosaic - my computer just didn't have that many! Whilst I appreciate that this is a limitation on the final picture - the more pictures the better the end result - but this isn't always practical, as I have found out. It's almost a 'novelty' programme that I wouldn't regularly use in the course of my job, but I thought I would give it a go anyway (seemed like a good idea at the time), but I have now decided to remove it from this particular PC, and maybe install it on the 'family' computer which has a lot more photos to play around with!

Having said that, I have used Paintshop Pro and Photoshop in the past to make a mosaic for a website, and this can be both time consuming and labourious (not to say plain boring), so a programme like this one (with less photos required to make an image) would be nice. I know someone is likely to write in and say try this one... so I will await the final set of comments later today/tomorrow. Thanks GOTD for the good work!

Allan Benson  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+25)

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