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Hello everybody
looking for some guidance

we're looking for software where we can take a picture of one of our own mouldings and adapt to create an image of a finished frame on customers pictures
I know there is some software about but I have no knowledge of them
any help would be much appreciated
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Do a search for visualisation in the box above, there have been a few conversations recently.
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Pre-View does exactly this, it will run on any PC.
Here is the download link
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Hi John, do I need a registration key to try out PreView?
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Hi John, apologies for troubling you but im having some problems getting started with PreView.
I've allowed access to the program and actually also tried switching my firewall off but Im getting the following errors.

On start up I get these 2 error messages but when i continue the program starts?
PreView start up errors.JPG
Once on the program I am choosing to update vendor moulding lists and get the following message?
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I understand trying to sort out software issues via this forum may be a challenge but thought i'd ask in case it was obvious to you.

Once again, thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

regards, Allan
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The messages are consistent with the program being blocked by an external source such as a third party antivirus application or by the Windows firewall.
These are the avenues you should explore,
Good luck!
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Ok will keep trying. Was worth asking incase you recognised it.
Many thanks
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The thing to ascertain is: how good do they work on ornate / detailed moudings.
With my software you take a photo of say a 150mm length of moulding and the software then replicates that to build up a frame of whatever size.
Great on plain mouldings but with more ornate / non repetitive stuff you end up seeing the stitch.
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Visualising mouldings with repeating patterns in Pre-View Is excellent in my experience, however, random patterns almost always display an obvious join where the sample tile is repeated. Good even lighting when photographing the sample can reduce the effect to some extent. For this reason We tend to avoid mouldings that are finished with a bold random pattern, whereas the repeating patterns, at least the ones we have, always look a treat.

Sorry I don't have an example to show how well the repeating pattern can look, the home system I'm using during lock-down only has a few (plain) sample mouldings, so here's a plain one.
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Agree with that last post - as long as you stick to a uniform profile along the length the results are very good.
You'll need a camera too - I use the Canon S5 SI (ebay) which is one of the few that you can do remote capture from your computer.
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Example:
Here is a visualisation of a moulding with a repeating pattern.

Unfortunately not all mouldings work this well. The quality of the visualisation decreases as the random element in a moulding's finish becomes more pronounced
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