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Saving for Later |
quadrium encourages exploration and creation of new and random images, but sometimes the image, while interesting, isn't what you want at this time. However, it may be interesting enough that you'll want to get back to it at another time. To facilitate this, quadrium provides two ways to hold the image for later work. You could save the image to disk and come back to it (assuming you remember what it was and what you called it), or you could one of the following two methods:
To temporarily save the image, with the intent of returning to it soon:
1. Select File > Temporarily Hold to keep a copy of the image in memory 2. To return to the image, select File > New From Starting Point 3. Under "User" select Temporarily Held. Your image will appear on the right. 4. Select the image, and it will be removed from the list (or you will be prompted first, depending on your preference settings). 5. For a more general ability, you can drag an image from anywhere and drop it on the "drop tab" at the top of the screen labelled "Temp" - this image can come from anywhere, including a snapshot, mutation, breeding child, tween frame, etc... |
Note that this keeps the image in memory, so will disappear when you quit quadrium. This is useful if you generate a large number of possibly interesting images, but nothing that you are really pleased with, and so being cleaned up when quitting is approriate.
To write the image to disk as an anonymous file managed by quadrium:
1. Select File > Save for Later to write it to disk 2. To return to the image, select File > New From Starting Point 3. Under "User" select Held for Later. Your image will appear on the right. 4. Select the image, and it will be removed from the list (or you will be prompted first, depending on your preference settings). 5. You can also drop images from anywhere on the "drop tab" at the top of the screen labelled "Later" |
This writes the image to disk, so will remain until you choose it from the list. Similarly, you can save a document as a favorite, which also writes it to disk (but doesn't default to removing it when you use it to start a new document