Final steps

After you complete selecting your source images, defining the output mosaic, and setting up mosaic preparation, as applicable, you can select to do any of the following:

Generate the mosaic preview
When you generate the mosaic preview, the view pane in the wizard is updated to show the imagery as it will appear in the mosaic. You can determine whether the mosaic is of suitable quality prior to generating the mosaic. If the preview is unsatisfactory, you can make changes on the Mosaic Preparation page to the cutlines, color balancing, sort order, or normalization, or click Back, as applicable, to return to the Mosaic Definition page and Source Images pages, respectively. After you make the changes you want, click Next, as necessary, to return to the Mosaic Preparation page, and then regenerate the mosaic preview, generate the output mosaic, or both. If you are then finished creating your project, close the wizard.
Generate the mosaic
When you generate the mosaic, a preview file is first generated, and then the output file is written to the folder and file name you specified.
Finish
How the software behaves when you click Finish is based on whether you generated the mosaic preview, changed any of the mosaic-preparation settings, or both, as follows:
- If you generated the preview, the wizard closes, and the mosaic preview is displayed in the Mosaic Tool window; otherwise, if you did not generate the preview, you are first prompted to do so. If after you generate the preview you then change any of the mosaic-preparation settings, the preview is now out of date, you will be prompted to update it. A preview is then displayed in the Mosaic Tool window. Under Source images, the source images you added in the wizard are displayed. You can then select one or more to add to the mosaic.
- If you generated the mosaic, the wizard closes; however, if the preview has not been generated or is out of date when you click Finish, you will be prompted to generate or update it, as applicable. The mosaic is then displayed in the Mosaic Tool window. If you did not generate the mosaic, you will also be prompted to generate or update the preview. In the Mosaic Tool window, under Source images, the source images you added in the wizard are displayed. You can then select one or more to add to the mosaic.
Note: The mosaic preparation you set up in the wizard is applied only when you generate the mosaic preview or the mosaic.

Tip: To quickly see the location of your output file, in the control pane of the Mosaic Tool window, under Output mosaic, right-click the output file name, and then click Properties. In the Layer Properties window, on the General tab, the location of the output file is displayed beside Pathname.

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