Creating Multi-views

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In the Group Window, select the images that you would like to include in your Multi-view. You can select a minimum of one image and the maximum that can be selected is unlimited.
Select Group, Create Multi-view from the main menu.
You will be taken to the Multi-view Image editor in the Image Workspace. You will also see the Image Workspace Tool and the Multi-view Sequence Composer.

The Multi-view Image Editor is divided into two different sections. The left side has all the available images that you selected from the Group in the Group Workspace. These are the images that you will drag and drop into place while composing your Multi-view image. Use the Multi-view Sequence Composer to define the sequence of images.

The first image you select in your group will appear in the center of the Multi-view Sequence Composer. This will be the first image you see when displaying Multi-view,. This first image is considered the “anchor” image for the Multi-view. (It will also be the image with the Multi-view border around it in the Group Workspace)
You can change the anchor image by dragging a different image from the Multi-view Image Editor over the image that is currently the anchor image. Your new image will become the anchor image.
Drag an image from the Multi-view Image Editor to one of the red x’s on the Multi-view Sequence Composer.
Define the direction in which you would like to view the next image after the anchor image. If, for example, you place an image to the right of the anchor image in the middle, and then also place an image to the left of the anchor image, you will be able to choose which image to view next. by clicking the desired direction with the gray arrows. This is also true if you put an image above and/ or below the anchor image in one of the boxes.
Place all the images that you would like to use in a square in the Multi-view Sequence Composer. You may use the same image more then once, and you do not need to have an image for every red x.
As you create more images in your Multi-view, you will see that as you drag an image onto an empty square, the gray arrow between the images will become lighter and become active. If you select this active arrow, you will “move” the Multi-view in the direction that you click by one image. So the image you clicked towards is now in the anchor position. Then you can add more images in the now empty squares. What you are doing is expanding the Multi-view. The Multi-view is essentially a large grid in which you can move up and down, and left and right. So as you add more unique images, the grid grows larger and larger.

However, Multi-view also works in a circular fashion. For example, lets say you have three unique images, image 1, image 2 and image 3. Image 1 is the anchor image. So now you place image 2 to the left of image 1 and image 3 to the right of image 1. If you select either the arrow to move right or left and place another one of the images mentioned above in that square with the red x, your Multi-view will now go in a circle. What your multi-view is doing is essentially allowing you to have a multi-view that will not end. This gives you the freedom to display one image more than once. It also allows you to display an image in different stages. Lets say the images are different views of a folding chair. The first is of the chair unfolded, the second is of the chair halfway folded, the third is completely folded, the fourth is the chair halfway unfolded and the last is unfolded again. You will now be able to continue to play this folding and unfolding sequence over and over again without backtracking the images.

When you have completed placing your images in the order that you want, select Save and Close. The Multi-view tool will disappear, leaving you in the Image Workspace.
To return to the Group Workspace, click on the Return to Group Window arrow located on the Image Workspace Tool.
You will now return to the Group Workspace and see the Multi-view that you just set up in the Multi-view Image Editor. It will be a thumbnail of your center (anchor) image, and there will be a small Multi-view icon in the top right corner.

Creating Multi-views

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