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-------------------------------------------------New in Mazaika v.3.5 -------------------------------------------------New Preview tile screen allows you manually crop or edit cell images. Interface improvements. -------------------------------------------------New in Mazaika v.3.4 -------------------------------------------------New Library dialogue allows so select multiple root folders. Few interface improvements. -------------------------------------------------New in Mazaika v.3.3 -------------------------------------------------Open/Save dialogue boxes with Project/Library preview. Improved Forced library option. It's much faster now. New rendering option Use All Pics. -------------------------------------------------New in Mazaika v.3.2 -------------------------------------------------Saving as Photoshop Large Document Format (*.psb) added. (Adobe Photoshop file format for very large images.) Saving a large mosaic as a collated pages sequence. -------------------------------------------------New in Mazaika v.3.1 -------------------------------------------------Mosaic Mask Tool allows you to render only selected regions. MS Windows Vista (R) compatible Context help system. -------------------------------------------------New in 3.0 version: -------------------------------------------------1 - Real time color correction and blending in the main screen. 2 - Improved Forced Library feature.

3 - Statistic of different tile images used in mosaic. 4 - An option to open mosaic image after saving. -------------------------------------------------New in 2.7 version: -------------------------------------------------1 - Option to Correct Tile Colors. 2 - Option to Sharpen Tiles in mosaic. 3 - New save procedure allows you to save a really huge files (10Gb and more .tif or .bmp files). -------------------------------------------------New in 2.4 version: -------------------------------------------------1 - Library Inspector screen added. 2 - Option to add pictures to an existing library. 3 - Option to remove pictures from an existing library. -------------------------------------------------New in 2.3 version: -------------------------------------------------1 - Option to stretch tiles. 2 - Option to use flipped tiles. 3 - Right click popup menu to open/view original tile image. 4 - Right click popup to show supposed candidates for current cell. 5 - Option to use faster open/resize alghorithm for jpeg files. 6 - Batch mosaic process for all images in the folder. -------------------------------------------------New in 2.1 version: -------------------------------------------------1 - Forced library option. I.e. option to place all tiles from the specific library into mosaic in the best suited position. The rest of the tiles could be rendered with tiles from the other collections. 2 - Context help system added. To activate it press F1 key. -------------------------------------------------New in 2.0 version: -------------------------------------------------1 - It's in 20 times faster than Mazaika v.1.x 2 - It could adjust not only distance between images,

but also could count how many times any given image could be used. 3 - It could easy zoom in/out view of the mosaic. (use "Ctrl"-"+" / "Ctrl"-"-" keys) 4 - It could blend mosaic tiles with original image i.e. modify color of tiles according it's place in the mosaic. (sometimes it could be the only way to make mosaic looks good) 5,6,7... Use only selected area of the source image for mosaic; Render and save only selected area of mosaic; Render in "random" order; TWAIN scanner support for source images; Custom sampling resolution; Add borders and grid lines to the saved mosaic; Save mosaic as sequence of images; Save mosaic as clickable html table; Etc... -------------------------------------------------New in 1.6 version: -------------------------------------------------+ Wizard type interface: Step by step guide for all common tasks Creation of new tile library Creation of mosaic Saving mosaic as a file + Recent used files menu: Open recent used source images and tile librarys. + Custom cropping adjustments for tile library: There is an option to crop to leave the top, middle or bottom of the portrait images. You could sort images that have the "important" part in the top, middle or bottom into separate folders and import them in separate passes. (Please note - there is no actual cropping of your original files. Cropped areas are only sampled and indexed into a Mazaika picture database. There is no modifications of your original images!) + Save as TIFF file format: Save your mosaic to the most common used desktop publishing file format. + Reconstitute mode: Reopen already rendered Mazaika project file (*.mzp) reconstitute mosaic and manually modify it. Corrected errors: - Fixed error when very large tile was printed into mosaic as a black rectangle. - Fixed error when mosaic was saved as a jpg file with file size more than 1Mb