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Project properties command (File menu)
Use this command to view and edit notes stored with your Panorama Factory project. This command runs the Project notes dialog box. This dialog box displays an edit window in which you can keep track of any notes that you want to record with the project. For example, you might want to record the date, location and exposure of the photographs.
Project properties dialog box
The following options control properties of the project:
Auto save
Select this checkbox to cause The Panorama Factory to save the project after each change. After saving, The Panorama Factory discards any images that can be re-read from disk files. This option can be useful to help control RAM usage while working on a large panorama.
Copy imported images
Select this checkbox to copy imported images to the destination directory when saving the project. If the checkbox is unchecked, The Panorama Factory saves only the filenames of imported images in the .pan file. In this case you must not delete the imported image files.
Save images (default)
These checkboxes control which .tiff or .bmp images are written to disk when you save the project. The column of checkboxes titled Project controls which images are written during normal saves and the column titled Archive controls which images are written during archival saves.
Trimmed
Images trimmed from the imported images using one of the trimming tools.
Warped
Images warped according to the focal length of the camera as a preprocessing step before stitching the panoramic image.
Stitched
The stitched panoramic image.
Cropped
Images produced with the cropping tool.
Enhanced
Images produced with the image enhancement tool.
Resized
Images produced with the image scaling tool.
Thumbnail
Small images displayed in the imported thumbnails and computed thumbnails panes.
The save images checkboxes set the defaults for images within the project. The settings can be overridden for particular images with the Image Properties command.
Time, space, quality trade-offs
These checkboxes control performance versus quality trade-offs. Generally, increased quality costs either time or space. For all of these options, leaving the option unselected is the most conservative of RAM at the expense of either speed or quality or both.
Keep all images in memory
Selecting this checkbox causes The Panorama Factory to retain all images in memory, even if they are not required for the current command. Leaving this option unselected causes The Panorama Factory to write inactive images to disk files which improves your ability to create large panoramas at the expense of input/output time.
Use 45-bit pixels
Selecting this checkbox causes The Panorama Factory to represent images with 45 bits per pixels (15 bits each for red, green and blue). This increases image quality at the expense of RAM and disk usage. Leaving this option unselected causes The Panorama Factory to represent images with 24 bits per pixel (8 bits each for read, green and blue). This improves your ability to create large panoramas at the expense of image quality.
Enable color correction
Selecting this checkbox allows the use of The Panorama Factory’s color balancing tool. This tool is normally used when working from scanned negatives, slides or prints. It causes The Panorama Factory to use 45 bits per pixel for imported images. It is always selected when Use 45-bit pixels is selected. Leaving this option unselected saves memory and disk space but prevents you from making changes in the color balance. This improves your ability to create large panoramas at the expense of color quality.
Revised: October 13, 1999