Seam melt guide

Three looks

Each picture below was made in Seam melt from its two sample pictures, with a preset and Replay, and caught after halfway, while picture B widens back out. The table lists the buttons pressed. A run moves fast, so a picture you save will be a different moment.

Digest

A pearl-crowned figure squeezed to a narrow strip, the spires beside it crushed to thin slivers at its edges — Digest soon after halfway: picture B at its narrowest, the spires crushed at its edges.

Press Digest under Presets, then Replay at the top of the panel.

Protection is weak and spread wide, and the low energy gamma evens out the edge scores, so seams are taken from all over the picture, spires and figure alike. This is the narrowest the tool gets: at full carve, a little less than half the width is left.

Setting	Value
Presets	Digest
Load and save	Replay

Raise Protect strength to hold the centre while the rest is eaten.

Accordion

A pearl-crowned figure somewhat narrowed, with a spire and domes still standing on each side — Accordion past halfway: picture B only partly narrowed, its spires still standing.

Press Accordion under Presets, then Replay at the top of the panel.

A carve amount of 0.42 leaves more of each picture at the narrowest point, and the high energy gamma takes the plainest columns first, so the sky between the spires goes while the spires stay. Back out passes the end early and settles back, so B reaches full width well before the run ends. See overshoot.

Setting	Value
Presets	Accordion
Load and save	Replay

Move Energy gamma to 3 to spare strong edges even more.

Squeeze cut

A pearl-crowned figure almost back to full width, a tall spire returning on the left beside the domes — Squeeze cut late in the run: picture B almost back to full width, a spire returning.

Press Squeeze cut under Presets, then Replay at the top of the panel.

At 1.1 seconds it is the fastest preset, and expo out starts fast and slows sharply: A is crushed to its narrowest in about a tenth of the run, and most of the rest is B easing back to full width.

Setting	Value
Presets	Squeeze cut
Load and save	Replay

Move Easing to Linear to see the squeeze and the return take equal time.