Tile - Layout Mode page 2.

Effect Tab
This Tab, the blue button with "Layout" on it, will allow you to change the automatic setup controls of the effect. Warning: You will lose all manual effect settings whenever you adjust any of the automatic controls located in the Layout mode.

Tile Shapes
This menu allows you to select the shapes for the tiles that will be used in this effect. From this, select each option you would like. Your options are Circular, Rectangular and Triangular. Each shape that is checked in this menu will be used to automatically render the default tile shapes.

Tile Angle
This slider controls how much of an angle the default tile shapes are given. The higher the setting, the more angled the tiles become in relation to their baseline. The lower the setting, the more aligned they become to a horizontal axis.

Hue Shift
This slider control applies a subtle shift of color values for each photo in each tile shape. This shift helps to differentiate the tiles and simulate how a real photo cut into tiles may look if different prints from different printers were cut up and overlapped.

Size
This slider control sets how large the tiles are when first generated. The smaller the size, the more tiles you will see generated. Use the Size and the Shape Coverage controls to define how large and to what degree the tiles cover your image area.

Size Difference
This slider control defines how much variety in difference there is between the smallest and the largest tiles that are generated. The Size Difference control lets you establish how much of a difference there is between the smallest and largest size tile.

Shape Coverage
This slider control sets how many tile shapes are stacked on top of each other to cover the image area. The higher the setting, the more tiles get generated and stacked on top of each other to form the image.

Image Offset
This slider control allows you to offset the image inside all the tiles globally. The higher the setting on this control, the more the image is offset. You can manually shift an image's position by using the Transform Photo tool.

Global Scale
This slider control defines the size of the effect as it is applied to the image. Use this control to scale the size of the effect on a constrained basis.

Tile Height
This slider control defines the shading for the tiles and how high they appear to be off of the background and in relation to other tiles.

By Joe Cilinceon, © July 31, 2002