The Studio

Prepare: quality, scale and seamless

Choose the size of your maps, set how big your image is in real life, and make one tile that repeats with no visible join.

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Quality

Pick the size of the finished maps. For fabric, the cards read:

• 2K (2048 px): furniture seen from a few metres.
• 4K (4096 px), marked Usual: close-ups of cushions and chairs.
• 6K (6144 px): hero close-ups.
• 8K (8192 px): big prints, extreme close-ups.

Wall art and marble show their own descriptions. The size is the long side of the maps; the other side follows your image.

Each card also says what will happen to your image: "scaled down", "as it is", or "AI upscale" and how many times. Past 4×, the AI enlarges up to 4× and the rest is a plain enlargement. Matelume brings your image to this size first, so every later step works at the final quality. The AI step runs once. It estimates detail and can't recover detail the image doesn't have, so a bigger image or a lower quality gives a sharper material.

While it works, Continue reads Preparing quality… and the 3D view stays live. When it's done, compare the two pictures: drag across the picture to move the split, and click a spot to see it close, Original, enlarged beside your quality at 1:1.

Note: On a trial, exports come out at up to 2K, whichever quality you pick here. See Trial and plans.

Scale

Matelume can't read real size from an image, so you set it here. Every later step is made at this size, and the export carries it.

For fabric, Photos on the cushion asks how many images make one cushion:

• The whole cushion: your image is the cushion front.
• 2 × 2, 3 × 3 or 4 × 4: 4, 9 or 16 images make the cushion.
• A size of my own: for curtains, sofas and anything else. Set the Width with the slider, from 2 cm to 3 m, or type it next to Or type it, in cm:.

With a cushion pick, choose the Cushion size: 40, 45, 50 or 60 cm. 45 cm is the default.

The height always follows your image's proportions and is never stretched. The panel shows the size of one tile, and a 10 cm ruler sits on the picture. The cushion in the 3D view takes the size you set.

The later steps show the whole cushion, for example all 2 × 2 tiles, so you judge the design at its real scale. The export is still one tile at its real size; your program repeats it.

Marble sets its width the same way, with quick picks from a small sample to a wide slab. Wall art has its own Real size step; see Wall art.

Seamless

The finished map is one tile that repeats, and Seamless makes that tile join without a visible line. Pick a tool:

• Keep the image as it is: the image already repeats; use it untouched.
• Best join, same size: cuts the join along the least visible path. Best for flowing lines and large shapes.
• Fill the join: fills the band where the tiles meet with pieces of your image.
• Rebuild with whole motifs: places the design's whole motifs again, so none is cut at the edge.

Matelume reads your design and marks the tool that suits it Recommended; that tool starts selected. When no tool is marked, Best join, same size starts selected.

The tools have their own settings:

• Join band: how wide the area is where the tool works, 6 to 30 %. For Best join, same size it's the Overlap searched for the cut; for Fill the join, the Width of the filled band.
• Fill method (Fill the join only): New, the default, or Previous, which can suit some flowing stripes and small checks.
• Fill it again, differently or Another arrangement: a new variation from the same tool.

Check the joins

The picture shows your tile repeated 2 × 2, or as your cushion's tiles, with Matelume's join check: "join clean" or "a join is visible". The cushion in the 3D view shows the tile repeating at its real size.

• Look where four tiles meet.
• In the 3D view, turn the object and the light to catch any line.
• Not sure which tool is best? Click Compare all four, 2 × 2 to see every tool side by side.

With The whole cushion, the join falls at the cushion's edge, and the maps are this one tile.

Marble has its own Seamless step, with Best join or No seamless and a Slab kept slider; see Marble. Wall art is never tiled.