What's new in MacOSaiX 2.1
Jan 27, 2009
- Added an iTunes album artwork image source.
- Added a Delicious Library image source.
- flickr image sources can now search using flickr groups.
- Google image sources can now search for news or face images.
- Google image sources can now search the database of LIFE images.
- Support for transparency:
- in original images
- in images placed in tiles
- in images created by the Glyphs image source
- when saving a mosaic as JPG, PNG or TIFF
- Now showing how well the mosaic matches the original image.
- Mosaics made with small numbers of images now look better.
- Image sources can now report errors when finding images.
- Images can now be repeated in adjacent tiles.
- Mosaics can now be as small as one tile by one tile.
- Performance improvements:
- Now taking better advantage of Macs with multiple CPUs/cores.
- Mosaics that allow image repeats are now created much faster.
- Images are now pulled from QuickTime movies much faster.
- Can now save images at larger sizes.
- Improved handling of very large images from sources.
- Bugs Fixed:
- The image usage rules (repeats, distance apart) are now always honored.
- CMYK images are now handled correctly.
- No longer crashing when iPhoto is not installed.
- No longer crashing when Google becomes inaccessible.
- No longer stopping after finding 21 Google images.
- No longer crashing when an image source is added to a mosaic with no original image.