It becomes necessary to resize the other images from the real original size to the Waterlogue "original" size before layering them The image at the top is such a layered image. That makes it awkward to integrate Waterlogue filtered images with images processed in other filters. There are several image size settings, small, medium, large and original, but original will be the same size as the original only if the original is no larger than 3584 pixels on the long side. A painter uses bigger brushes for broad generalized areas and small brushes for details. As painting term however, they have them reversed. Rather, it refers to the "brush" size with Small being more generalized and Giant being more detailed. Remember that the Small vs Giant does not refer to overall image size. Of course, I'm accustomed to Photoshop controls that have a huge range and this in only a 4 step scale, but I expected to see a bigger difference between the extremes. For example here are two conversions of the same image, the first at the Giant setting (which should be more detailed) and the other at the Small setting (supposed to be less detailed) (the border effect is turned off in the Small version and the lightness had reset to medium). I have a mouse that I can scroll sideways with by pressing the wheel left or right and that didn't work so I had missed the scrolling before.Īside from that I have to say the brush size control really makes only a minor difference anyway. Waterlogue's menus aren't that vague, but the sideways scrolling of the bottom eluded me until I accidentally discovered that rotating the mouse wheel up and down moved the panel left or right. There was a trend toward image mapping on websites at the time and on some sites it was necessary to move the cursor around an image to find the mapped parts for navigating the site. The authors used that as a metaphor for 'clever' menus that require the user to figure the menu out in order to do something. Mystery meat is the meat you get in a high school cafeteria line that is drowned in gravy so that you can't tell what it is. One of the things that stuck in my mind was the admonition to avoid "mystery meat" menus. Many years ago I took a course in web design. With further exploration, I find they are there. In my previous review, I complained that I didn't get the controls other reviews mentioned (brush size and lightness). I'm revisiting Waterlogue to correct a few things and to show how it can be integrated with other filters as in the image above.