1. The Administrator tab

Here you find all the administrator settings. These settings are managed from sub-tabs, each with a specific purpose and theme. These sub-tabs are:

• Files and folders: manage all the application's external inputs, like text, colour and mail client settings.
• Webcam: use an externally attached or internal webcam to make the snapshots.
• Mail client settings: all the relevant mail client settings are managed here.
• Mail design: the content of the actual mail is managed from this tab. It includes a WYSIWYG editor.
• Print and Size: in this tab you manage the printed output size settings, and also the reprints of earlier created Calligrams.
• Event management: to inspect the progress of the Calligram creation, including error and warning messages, and to select an event for the data logger.
• License: the tab for inspecting the license file (and how many license days you still have).

2. The Branding Studio

Here you find a quit simple interface to make a template for the Calligram. This tab has a very basic layer editor, where layers of artwork can be stacked, overlapping the Calligram. Next to simple artwork pictures, you can also prepare the artwork, and save it as a .psd (Photoshop file format) and reload it as a composite template.

3. The Homework Studio

In this tab you'll find 4 sub-tabs:

• Calligram text settings: where you can define the parameters of the Calligram text, like font, typeface, size, colour etc.
• Calligram tuning: to finetune the black and white 'base' for the Calligram (black = text will be placed, white = keep white).
• Emojigram settings: to finetune the settings for creating a picture mosaic from a library of emojis
• Legogram settings: to tune the settings of a 'Legogram', where the output is a 3D-realistic brick mosaic picture of the source snapshot.

4. The Calligram Station

In this fourth and last tab you find all the application Calligram creation buttons. You have 4 buttons to create, take a snapshot, print, and e-mail the Calligram result. This tab is probably the most used tab, since all the other tabs are typically used to set-up your event, and then use this tab for the actual event work-flow.

A dedicated extra tab is made available in the Calligram Station. In this tab several useful event functions are put together. The controls for Calligram creation or for Emojigram creation will appear here. This is really only used in the occasional mismatch between the snapshot person, and the default values. Next, in case of a Calligram output, a custom word can be selected, replacing the test file. Also, the choice 'Calligram', 'Emojigram' or 'Legogram' can be made here. For instance, for a Calligram, the colour pattern can be tweaked. In the second tab a Hot folder viewer is placed. In this tab, also the orientation can be set on the fly: landscape or portrait. When changing the orientation, the original picture is kept, and only cropped to match the landscape or portrait area. So, switching between the two orientations is basically lossless.

The zoombar (left below the image) can be used to select the part of interest. This zoombar is only working in image mode (the photo camera icon, see next paragraph). Zoom and pan now is fully made available, so the techie is fully in charge of what part will be made into a Calligram. Additional support of skin or face detection can speed up the cropped area considerably.

Finally, four buttons are added in this tab (in the screenshot above: below the black and white Calligram source picture). With these two buttons you can toggle between the webcam live stream (the video camera image), and the Calligram picture (the photo camera icon), the Calligram outline (the graph icon) and the final calligram result (the people icon). The light blue line underneath the image indicates which viewer is made visible. The toggle action can be done whenever an image is available. When an image in the snapshot queue is double-clicked (= becomes active in the image viewer), then simply by selecting the Calligram outline viewer (the graph icon), the Calligram outline is created. The people icon (= the Calligram) will only become active when a Calligram has been created. The video image icon only becomes available when a live stream webcam is active.