Gliftex Tutorial 5: Auto Settings
(You may like to print this tutorial (see under the File menu of this window), it is about 2 A4 pages long)
If you are new to Gliftex and have not done the first four tutorials please do them now.
This tutorial illustrates how to reduce the level of experimentation in form, color scheme and interpretation. It may sound complicated but it is really really easy! Read on...
Step 1 : Run
Gliftex and, as in the previous tutorial, click
on the 
icon in the toolbar. This will create your first image. Now click again and
again on the icon till you find an image you like. Gliftex is experimenting
with all three components of the image, the form the color
scheme and the interpretation.
Step 2 : Now lets decide that we want to make the form a Trellis Form. Select Auto Settings in the form panel. Nowselect "Trellis" from the combo box at the bottom of the form panel. Your form panel should look like this:
You are telling Gliftex that you like the "Trellis" form, but would like to experiment with it, automatically changing its settings ("Auto Settings" selection).
Step 3 : Once
your form panel looks like the one illustrated above click on the 
button to generate different versions of the "Trellis" form. The colors
and interpretation will not change.
Step 4 : Try the same thing with Color Scheme, set it to "Auto Settings" and "Colors from an image":
You are telling Gliftex
to always use "Colors from an image", but to choose different images
each time 
is clicked.
Step 5 : Finally you can experiment with the settings of a selected Interpretation in the same way as you have with color schemes and forms:
Now, every time you
click on 
in the interpretation
panel Gliftex will keep the basic interpretation the same (in this example "Graphic
leaved") but change the settings for that interpretation (e.g. changing
how many leaves there are, the shape and size of the leaves etc.)
What have you learned?
1) Auto settings keeps the basic component (form, color scheme or interpretation) the same but changes the settings for that component. We'll learn about manually changing the settings in the next tutorial.