BEFORE PHOTO / Actually... The local park  ;-D

ACTUAL "GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH" PHOTO OF NATURAL STONE STEPS

SOURCE PHOTO:

http://www.autumnridgestone.com/images/IMG_3703_800_bd.jpg

AFTER IMAGE / with "edited," cut and pasted, Natural Stone Steps

 Get the idea?

To proceed...

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW TO CREATE AN OBJECT (After You've Defined An Area)... 

CLICK HERE... TO WATCH A TRAINING MOVIE 

(Or watch it from within your Hardscape or Deco-Con Imaging software located under 

Training --> All Movies --> Look under the "Area" Section and click on "Convert to Object") 

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING TO DO... IS... 

Basically, with the Natural Stone Steps -- or any object your are saving -- you are using the Area Tool to "define" them, then turn them into an Object to both copy and paste into a new target image... AND/OR... add to your customized Object Library.  

Ok?  

Moving on...

GOOGLE SEARCHED IMAGE / Defined Steps and Turned Into Object

WRITTEN TRAINING MOVIE RECAP...

Once you have defined the Area (of the steps or anything else of something you would like to save as a reusable object), and once the defined object area is greyed out (after closing the polygon), from the Area tool, instead of clicking on the Hardscape (or Pattern) Library, you will click "Ok" to exit the Area Tool.

Your defined object/area will still appear greyed. Simply move your mouse cursor over the greyed area (sometimes while clicking down on it) and a window will pop up asking you "Do you want to convert this area into an object?" Click "Yes" and your defined area will now become a moveable object WITH A BOUNDING BOX AROUND IT (see picture above). 

(Remember: Watch the Training Movie listed up above if this is confusing.)

You can then copy and paste it into a completely different background image... or... save it as an object file.

NOW...

SAVING A DEFINED OBJECT (As a .lob file)

With your defined object active (meaning you've clicked on it and you can see a border around it with little sizing squares)...

Select...

File --> Export Object

And give your object a name and be sure the file "Save as type" option specifies "Land Object LOB .lob" and then save the object to a folder that makes sense to you. (You may need to navigate to one and create a folder.

Personally, I create a folder under the Decolibrary in the Deco-Con Imaging software or the "Objects" file in the Hardscape Imaging software. I then save all my created objects in a file I've named "New Objects" so I can find them again and easily back them up.)

TIP: All "Objects" used in the Imaging software are saved a ".lob" files.  Just the way it is.

Okay, that is phase one.  (Saving the Object as a file in a place you will remember it.)

NEXT...

HOW TO MAKE NEW OBJECT LIBRARIES...

First of all, there is a starter training movie that shows some things about Object Libraries called "The Library" movie. (Good for a refresher.) You can access it from within both the HIS and Deco-Con software.

CLICK HERE... TO WATCH A TRAINING MOVIE (Deco-Con Online Version)

(Or watch it from within your Hardscape or Deco-Con Imaging software located under 

Training --> All Movies --> Look under the "The Library" Section)

TIP:  Another thing you can do, while in the software, is "Click" the HELP icons and while the "?" is the cursor Click on "New Library" from the main menu.

So... Getting On With It... 

TO CREATE A NEW OBJECT LIBRARY...

1) From the main menu: Select "Library" then "New Library"

2) Click on the "Object Library" radio button (or it might be the default)

Then give the Library a name (name = the name of the product or manufacturer - something that will help you find it) then a period to call out the pattern of the product. 

Examples:

Vista.Lighting Fixtures

Asphalt.basketweave

Steps.NaturalStone

See that "period" or dot that is what tells the "Vista" library to create a sublibrary named "Lighting Fixtures"... that "." is important.

Then Click OK, and Click OK one more time again.

3) Now open the new Object Library you just made and follow the name path you gave it to open the blank library.

You will see a message "This combination is not available" and that is the indicator that you have not yet added items to the library.

4) Click on "Items" then "Add Items."

Now navigate to the folder where you saved the new .lob file to.

5) When you locate the folder where the file or files are stored -- and if you don't see them -- it would be because the "File Type" is set to the wrong format for viewing. Most of the files are .JPG so change the "Files of type" to .JPG or they could be .BMP or .TGA or .GIF, etc.

6) Select the file in that folder (or the ones you want to add into the library) and Click on the "OPEN" command button. And then the library will build itself.

7) While the library is still open, Save the library: "Click Library" then "Save Library." (In this above example it is Vista / Lighting Fixtures)

~ INSPIRATION ~

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astonish ourselves."
-- Thomas Edison, Inventor

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