|  The
Big A
Brings up the "About" box, credits, copyright notices,
etc. A is also for Ann. |
| 
Help and Preferences
The green question mark gem brings up the Help menu. The
light blue exclamation point gem brings up the Preferences settings. |
|  Shape
Control
Sliding the Pink Gem along this bar lets you go from a tall
and narrow, portrait oriented gem shape (left) to a short and wide, landscape
oriented gem shape (right). All proportions in between can be achieved,
with the center setting being a perfect sphere. |
|  Amount Control
Sliding the Pink Gem along this slider lets you create as
many gems as you want up to infinity (left), with separate settings for
one through five gems. For the infinity setting, only the size of your
document limits the number of gems possible. Of course, this takes up a
lot of RAM! |
|  Spectrum
Box
Move the Gem around inside the Spectrum Box to achieve the
hue, tint or shade you want. Double click on the gem to decrease the saturation
of the color. Alt- or Option-click to increase the saturation. |
|  Facet Selector
Select the kind of cut or facet you want for your gem, or
select a square or oval cabochon. |
|  Brilliance
Control
Brilliance Control lets you fine tune the "sparkle factor".
Diamonds, being the most brilliant, hardest, and expensive are represented
by the dollar sign. Soft, dull stones, having the least sparkle are represented
by the cents symbol. |
|  Gem Viewer, Gem Attributes
The Gem Viewer shows a real-time representation of your gem
in the middle of the black screen. Each corner has a special rolling control
ball that effects the physical properties of your gem. They are clockwise
starting from upper left: Pearlesence, Opalesence, Clarity and Chatoyance.
Use these controls as sliding balls, sliding them to the right increases
the effect.
Pearlesence creates pearly, nacreous, satiny surfaces. Opalesence
creates firey inclusions, fractures or prisms of iridesence within the
stone. Sliding the Clarity control ball to the right increases the clarity;
sliding it more toward the left makes the gem translucent, and sliding
it all the way to the left makes it solid. Chatoyance gives the cat's eye
effect, most familiarly associated with Tiger's Eye or Star Sapphires.
The Chatoyance control will only work when the gem is in round or oval
Cabochon mode. |
|  Apply
Modes: Composite Method, Opacity
The Composite Method (top, red) applies your gem to your
existing image in a variety of ways such as Normal, Multiply, Subtract,
Darken, Hue, Saturation, etc. Press the Composite Button to bring up a
menu of composite options.
The Opacity Control (bottom, blue) determines the strength
you apply your gem to your image. Sliding it all the way to the right applies
100% of your gem; sliding it toward the left creates decreases the strength
of the image. This is not to be confused with the Clarity Control Ball
(above), which effects the property of the gem itself, not how it is applied
to the image. |
|  Save
Preset, Preset Menu, Cancel and Apply
Gold Gem: Save Preset. Saves the current gem in the Viewer
to the Preset Menu to be used at a later time.
Violet Gem: Preset Menu. Brings up a menu of all the saved
gems. You can delete unwanted gems from this menu, too.
Red Gem: Stops or Cancels GemStone Designer and brings you
back to your application window in its previous state.
Green Gem: Go! or Apply. Applies the gem you've created to
the existing image in your current application. |
