Question 1

POD Graphics Maker - Roman Mosaics animated demo

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Watch the effect of the sliders to get a feel for POD Graphics Maker

Question 2

Puzzle Maker Pro - Mazes 2D Oblique Video Overview

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Puzzle Maker Pro - Mazes 2D Oblique Video Overview

Question 3

Puzzle Maker Pro - Mazes 2D Other Shapes Video Overview

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Puzzle Maker Pro - Mazes 2D Other Shapes Video Overview

Question 4

Puzzle Maker Pro - Mazes 2D Squares Video Overview

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Puzzle Maker Pro - Mazes 2D Squares Video Overview

Question 5

Puzzle Maker Pro - Tutorial Overview

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Puzzle Maker Pro Tutorials

Welcome to the Puzzle Maker Pro - Tutorials page: This page lists the tutorials for Puzzle Maker Pro. Please use search if you don't see here what you're looking for.

Getting Started

Puzzle Maker Pro - Getting Started

Puzzle Maker Pro Tabs

Output Settings - Puzzle Files

Output Settings - Additional Output

Output Settings - Page format

Page Layout

Time Saver

Tools

Puzzle Specific Tutorials

Generic FAQ's

Drag and Drop Images

Color and Font Selection

Mask Editor

Question 6

Quick video demo of Easy Puzzle Books "Auto" Workflow

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Quick video demo of Easy Puzzle Books "Auto" Workflow

Question 7

Quick video demo of Easy Puzzle Books "Manual" Workflow

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Quick video demo of Easy Puzzle Books "Manual" Workflow

Question 8

Sticker Factory (Plugin for Powerpoint) Tutorial Video

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Sticker Factory (Plugin for Powerpoint) Tutorial Video

Question 9

Troubleshooting Mazes 2D Tiles

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There are some problems you can run into when using Puzzle Maker Pro - Mazes 2D Tiles. Below we have shown the most common problems you can run into, and how to solve them.

Isometric Tiles

The Isometric Tiles are too small.
I see Square Tiles in my Isometric Maze
The Tiles in my Isometric Maze are not properly aligned

Masks Add-On - How do I fix Empty Cells in my Maze?

There are several possible reasons why empty cells appear in your maze:

Missing Tiles – If you don’t specify the tiles for each variation (e.g. 1, 12, 13, 123, etc), the maze generator will leave that space empty
Masks – If you use a mask or a quick mask, you’ll get empty (unused) cells
Empty Cells – If you specify a number of empty cells, these will be randomly selected in the grid. If you don’t have a “0” tile, these cells will be left empty. The “0” tile is for cells with no connections

Tile Multiplier

WARNING: Missing Tiles! Unable to complement all tile variations

Masks and Texts

There are two kinds of masks you can use with the Graphics Maker software. Three, actually, but they are hidden under two different tabs.

text masks
Graphic masks

Let's look over them.

Graphic Masks

We've set up a quick and easy pattern with 001, Tile Labyrinth. There is some fluidity, we've added bounding boxes, and some colours. Tips on how to do this are found in the Getting Started tutorial.

There are two ways to set up a graphics mask. One is very similar to masks in any other software from Bookpublishertools. You select a silhouette image and it becomes a mask.

Image Masks

https://malcolm-en-gb.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/instances/wuGqS3zSeN/resources/vvYKl8uQWl/mask.jpg (mask)

Now, it's also possible to change some settings here, such as inverting the image, recolouring the image to turn the masked image parts to white, and stretching.

https://malcolm-en-gb.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/instances/wuGqS3zSeN/resources/E3MoDeekM8/mask%202.jpg (mask 2)

Built-in Masks

Now let's play with the other option, the Built In masks. These are unique to POD Graphics Maker, and while they are not quite as unique as custom PNG masks, you can still do some amazing things with these.

https://malcolm-en-gb.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/instances/wuGqS3zSeN/resources/RakrjLHHvG/Masking%20Built%20In%20Masks.jpg (Masking Built In Masks)

Pretty interesting, right?

Let's see what we had to do to get these results.

Repeats horizontal and vertical. As you can tell we have both set to 5, for a total of 25 circles. You can also change the size, and their horizontal/vertical positioning.
Pen colour and mask shape. We've set the pen colour to a dark green to go with our colours in the background. We've used a circle cut out, meaning that everything is greyed out except the 5x5 circles. There are multiple mask shapes that come with the software.
Height and Width of the cutouts. We've put these both at maximum so they touch. If you want it even bigger, change the size at step 1, and you get overlap, which can look really good too.

And just like that, we've created a simple background with the built-in masks.

Text Masks

While you can combine Graphic masks and Text overlay masks, we're quickly turning off the graphic masks, so you can better see the results of the text overlay masks.

First of all, let's enable the Text Overlay. The standard word input is "LOVE".

https://malcolm-en-gb.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/instances/wuGqS3zSeN/resources/d2DZPXy9Kz/Text%20overlay%20standard.jpg (Text overlay standard)

Great. Now let's try playing with the settings a bit to get something that looks better and can actually be used. You can change the text, center the text, change the colour of the text, or even use the text as a mask.

https://malcolm-en-gb.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/instances/wuGqS3zSeN/resources/N7XDXzruTO/2023-11-17_11-13-05.jpg (2023-11-17_11-13-05 (2024).jpg)

Interesting...

Now what we've done here is change the font to something Bold, changed the text, and selected the option to use the text as a mask. You can make the text as long as you want too.

FAQs directory

POD Graphics Maker - Roman Mosaics animated demo

Puzzle Maker Pro - Mazes 2D Oblique Video Overview

Puzzle Maker Pro - Mazes 2D Other Shapes Video Overview

Puzzle Maker Pro - Mazes 2D Squares Video Overview

Puzzle Maker Pro - Tutorial Overview

Quick video demo of Easy Puzzle Books "Auto" Workflow

Quick video demo of Easy Puzzle Books "Manual" Workflow

Sticker Factory (Plugin for Powerpoint) Tutorial Video

Troubleshooting Mazes 2D Tiles

Using Masks in POD Graphics Maker