The display modes help you see how the output image will look when engraved. These setting do not affect the output only how it is shown on the screen. The software offers 4 display modes:
Dots Mode
This mode shows the actual pixel of the image that is closest to the display pixel. The problem is that the output pixels do not match the display pixels so you get what looks like a mess of dots.
You can zoom in on the image and the dots will make more sense.
Gray Mode
With Gray mode the display pixel is the sum of the nearby output pixels. This makes the image look closer to the final output image.
Photo Mode
This is the same a gray mode but the white background is replaced with an image. You can select your background image in the settings area.
Photo Mode Inverted
This inverts the gray mode and is used to show how something might look on a dark background like granite. To use this make sure you pick a dark background photo.
Of course if you are going to output a photo on a dark substance you should use one with a dark background.
See the Support section on how to use Green Screen Wizard to do this.
GCode Photo Wizard Features
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The Pro version has the all the features of the Full system including 3 conversion systems, overlays and simple text but
adds the Editor, Special Effects and Extensive Text and Image control.
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Compare Images
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With only a simple file open it is difficult to find a photo to process. Many photographers used a separate program to review the images and then used the Wizard to process the selected image. This will no longer be necessary with the Compare Image feature. This feature will create large thumbnail images for you to look at. You can drag any image to one of 4 review windows so that you can compare even larger images. You can double click on the thumbnail or the image in the compare window and it will be loaded as the image to process. This features takes a few minutes to create the thumbnails but it is worth the wait.
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Airbrush Editor
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The Pro Studio Version of GCode Photo Wizard has a custom version of
Green Screen Wizards Airbrush Editor that makes it easy to edit black and white photos.
It works best cleaning up sketch mode photos. The dithered photos are difficult to edit because the pattern of dots is easily disturbed. You can use the copy mode for these images and you can clear a background for text for dithered images.
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Box Generator
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Special Effects
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Skin Smoothing
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In Green Screen Wizard Skin Smoothing helps to remove blemishes and wrinkels and give the skin a glow.
What skin smoothing adds in the GCode Photo Wizard is the ability to apply white makeup that makes faces lighter for a more pleasant output.
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Adding Frames
The GCode Photo Wizard has an powerful framing system. It lets you apply an inner frame and an outer frame. If the outer frame is white then it can make the image look like it is floating.
You can choose Square , Oval, Heart or Jagged Frames. The frame can be solid or you can load an image.
The frames are added before the effect so that they will be dithered or sketched depending on the effect selected.
In version 4 you can now use the framing system to vector cut the output. This makes it very easy to create plaques on thin materials.
Sample that uses frame to cut output.
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Lighting Effects
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Lighting Effects let you emphasize areas of the photo, or create side lighting. The example shows first the girl with no lighting then the butterfly lightened
by the circle lighting effect. The second photo shows sheet lighting, used best on close up portraits
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Connecting Grid
Often you would like to output letter and images that are not connected. The connection grid option makes it easy to do this. It is great for creating paper greeting cards or window art..
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Add Unlimited Text or Images
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The Pro version gives you full flexibility to add annotation
or images to your output. With the image feature add logos, banners, or transparent png file.
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Color and Exposure Control
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The Wizard gives your control of brightness, contrast and saturation as well as independent control of the red ,green and blue balance.
You can use these controls to correct poorly exposed images or images with bad color balance. They can also be use to fine tune the black and white conversion.
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Scale, Placement and Rotate
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It is important to fit the foreground to the background. The Wizard give you control of the scale, placement and rotation of the images.
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Overlays
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Overlays are png files with a transparent section. They can be used to create elaborate frames for your work as well as add text to the image. Often the image has to be moved and scaled to fit it the opening. You can create your own overlays with Photoshop.
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Simple Labels
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In the full version you can put 2 labels at 9 preselected positions. The labels can be Xlarge, Large, Med, or Small. You can have them in white or black in the Times Roman, Arial or Cursive font.
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