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Output formats for Germany

rue — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT

I'm using Autocalloge since a couple of weaks and for me it works fine.

Great Solution!

But I've got 2 problems:

- the output formats are not wrong for a couple of countries (e.g. germany, austria).

It would be great if further versions can have support for formats like "DIN A4", "DIN A5"

"10x13 cm" and so on ...

- It would be nice if it would be possible to tag one or two pictures to become centered

Thanks for your help in advance in thank you for this nice application.

Ruediger

Re: Resolution of collage

johnmil — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Thank you for using and purchasing AutoCollage, we appreciate your feedback!

Both of your suggestions are great ideas, we'll pass them along to the product development team for consideration for any future releases of AutoCollage.

Thanks for your feedback!

Re: "Ignored images because they are too small"

johnmil — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT

The only way to work around image size limitations today is to upscale the images to a larger number of pixels.

For example,

Make a copy of the image.
Open the copy with a program capable of resizing it, such as Microsoft Office Picture Manager.
Resize the picture to meet image requirements. For example, in Microsoft Office Picture Manager, choose Picture->Resize and increase the picture size by an appropriate percentage, e.g. to 200% of original.
Save the image copy.

Upscaling will invariably reduce the quality of the image, so it's important to not make this change to your original picture.

We require images of a certain size with AutoCollage so the image processing algorithms we have can work efficiently and correctly. Once your image meets AutoCollage image requirements, you can successfully use it in collages.

Sorry for this limitation, please let us know if you have any other questions.

Re: Disappointed in how images are handled

johnmil — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT

One of AutoCollage's features is automatic selection of a subset of pictures from which to create a collage. In other words, if you have a folder with 100 or 200 pictures, and choose to create an autoCollage with 15 pictures, AutoCollage will use its algorithms to pick which 15 of your 100 or 200 pictures to include.

Choosing the pictures means reading and processing all the pictures in the folder so AutoCollage can choose the best ones. The processing works best with images of a certain size or larger. While AutoCollage is loading the images, it displays them on the screen (displaying the pictures takes very little extra time or computing power). As a side-effect of doing this, you can browse through your pictures while they load, and you can even see detected faces, and add your own manually detected face rectangles, affecting the final collage image selection and shape. .

I hope this helps explain some of the reasons AutoCollage behaves the way it does. Whether you agree with that behavior is a different question :)

Thanks for your feedback!

Re: Output size limitations?

pkamani — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT

The pre-defined sizes is indeed very limiting. I am running quad-mon and can get a fairly high resolution picture, but I can't choose 11"x14" or 12"x12" (square mode) even though they are smaller in resolution. These are the sizes I typically print. Doesn't make sense to crop a collage either. My friend was impressed by the desktop background I have and asked me to create one for him. I can't - he is running dual-mon.

Re: Purchase

chriso — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Hi Waldemar,

Thanks for your comments.

The Microsoft Store should accept both Visa and MasterCard payments - go to https://emea.microsoftstore.com/UK/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-50 for the AutoCollage 2008 page.

We are looking at the resolution options for a future release and will make a note of your request for consideration. Also see my reply to the Output size limitations? topic.

Many thanks,
Chris