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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.


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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.