New Backgrounds Soon
The Update for MC-Rally is still in process, but I have gotten sidetracked with an idea for a new gallery for Symmetrical Backgrounds. I am processing images for a fabric background gallery. Some of these will be lightly textured and some will be heavily patterned. It is always interesting to see how an image comes out. The look will often change completely when the image is processed.
I use my photo editor and the built in panorama image function to produce symmetrical images. I have reduced the steps so that making the images is now faster than it was for the first images that I produced. I figured out that I did not need to make two of the components that I had been making. Each image used six components but I was duplicating work and only really needed four components to produce the same end product. By looking over the process I eliminated about half of the steps, so I can now produce the images in about half the time. I found a lot of samples for this gallery, so processing will take some time.
I modified the gallery software so that it produces a page with the image as a background some time back. Seeing the image does not really indicate what the page will look like, you need to see the image in a live situation to see how it will come across. The modified gallery software does this as it builds the pages.