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Post by stormy on Dec 17, 2008 7:30:17 GMT -5
... is there a tut for the name with the images moving through it?  That is just too cool!! I looked through tuts and general but didn't see anything, but then it's 6:30 a.m., too!  |
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Post by Betsy (RIP) on Dec 17, 2008 9:04:24 GMT -5
There's a tut over at My Stucio Space in the msn groups. I think it's call blowin in the wind... Several weeks ago Huronna explained it to me in a thread, but I can't find that thread. And I can't explain how to do it.  |
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Post by Huronna on Dec 17, 2008 9:40:30 GMT -5
Gads, I finally found what I wrote about a month ago
I can't write a tut for it, because somewhere one is already written and I learned it a long time ago from that tut, but I'll give you some ideas.
Open an image no wider than 500 pixels.
Take the images you want to use, and line them up. You can feather them of tube them of however they look nice to you. Make a bottom layer of a color that goes with the images. Merge all those layer together.
Now increase the canvas size. Make the height the same, but the width twice as big. 1000 pixels if your original one was 500. set it up so that your original layer goes all the way to the left. then duplicate that layer and move it all the way to the right. It should look like two layers side by side. Merge them
You better start saving now, because a lot of times I have had PSP shut down when I'm doing this next part. Duplicate you layer and use your deformation tool on the duplicate layer. HOLD DOWN you shift key and hit that "to the right" arrow 20 or 30 times. Remember how many because you are going to have to do the same for every layer.
Deactivate you deformation tool, and duplcate the layer you just moved. You are doing to move this layer THE SAME NUMBER of pixels that you did the last one.
Continue this way until your image layer is half way across the image. Depending on how many pixels you moves each layer you may have 16-25 layers..
Crop and save the right half of your image and open it up in AS. Your very last frame will be the same as your first one, so you want to delete it. Also if there is any transparent area on the first of last frame, just crop them all a little so there is no transparent area.
If you look at the animation is is moving to the right. I'm partial to mine moving to the left, so At this point I will select all and reverse frames.
Ok now select all and copy.....paste over in PSP
Add a raster layer and flood fill with white and sent it to the bottom. Using a fat font, I usually use Impact, stroke 2 pixels, white....full null. You are going to write the name as a vector as the very top layer
Stretch that vector so that it covers almost all of the lined up images. Not too high as you don't want a bunch of plain area....you have it like you want it? covert to raster.
Use you magic wand and holding down your shift key, NO FEATHER....click inside all of the letters....selections modify expand by 1, INVERT...now activating each layer of your image hit the delete key once. DO NOT hit the delete key on the white .layer or the text layer
You will now have one white layer on the bottom, 16-20 image layers and one text layer on the top. AT this point you can bevel the text or use you favorite drop shadow.
Make sure you put your credits on the white layer, probably right under the text,
This last part is optional. You can do it one of two ways depending how steady you hand is.
You can c/p the white layer as a new image in AS. Also c/P the text layer as a new image in AS. Hide those two layers on your pspimage in PSP making sure all the image layers are visible and save it. Open up this PSP image in AS.
Duplicate the white layer so that it has the same number of layers are the image . C/P all the image layers onto the white layer, sitting it up just a little bit from the credits that are already on your white layers.
Using propagate paste you can c/p the text layer on top of it all, be careful because you don't want any of your image to slide out from under the text. you want it to be inside the text
The other way to do it is with tons of layers in PSP. If you have 16 image layers, you need 16 white layers on the bottom and 16 text ones on the top, hide them all, and open up one set at a time. Make sure you don't mix up the order as you will have a jumps movement if you do. Save this and reopen in AS
Which ever way you did it, you now have to optimize in AS and then save.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2008 16:55:19 GMT -5
Ohhh Goody... I didn't see your post about a month ago how to do this Huronna... I have something I am just going to have to try now...My creative juices are flowing already.. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2008 17:46:25 GMT -5
I am stuck at the deform tool Huronna...I am hitting shift but I don't see this arrow that you have to hit 20-30 times..Where is that?? I have PSP X..So my deform tool is actually called the pick tool..
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Post by Huronna on Dec 17, 2008 18:49:29 GMT -5
the arrows are on your keyboard, usually between the letter area and the number keypad....you know up down, right left
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2008 19:01:45 GMT -5
LMBO never would have though of those.. I tried everything else I could think of even looking it up on google...Ok I am going back into PSP to try that..lol
When you say you should have the two layers side by side then merge..Do you want the left and right images touching with no gap in the middle of them..then merge??
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Post by Flagryl on Dec 17, 2008 19:20:59 GMT -5
Dar, that is really neat. Your snow is terrific...how did you do that?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2008 19:33:14 GMT -5
I didn't make it Flagryl,,,Anita did..It was a WWO a few weeks back..It is one of my favorites.. I would sure like to know how she did it too..I would maybe use some Fuzzy heads instead of snowman heads...he he
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Post by Anita on Dec 17, 2008 20:24:20 GMT -5
Flagryl, the snow was in the tut I used to make her tag. I was sure you got one of those, but maybe not. My old brain stops working after 5 p.m. LOL
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2008 22:01:21 GMT -5
Ok Huronna,,, I have gotten to the point of using the magic wand inside the letters with the shift key... I can not get it to work.. No matter what I do all the letters get marching ants and when I try to follow the rest of the instructions and invert I either get nothing happening when I hit delete or I get the image just in the outline of the letters.. I used Impact font with the background crossed out...Is that my problem??
Anyway I am off to bed now...Hope I can get a fresh perspective tomorrow..
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Post by Huronna on Dec 17, 2008 23:45:01 GMT -5
make sure you have your feather set at 0 and antialias checked and the "inside" You have to use a fat font so you can click you magic want inside the letters and when you make the letters only use the stroke not the fill
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Post by stormy on Dec 18, 2008 5:51:41 GMT -5
Wow, what did I start, lol!!! Thank you so much for writing all that, hur! You're a sweetheart! I'm sorry I got tied up at work yesterday and didn't get to get back, then I had the little one last night... and, well, you see what time it is now, lol!!! Thank you again, so very much, sweetie, I can't wait to try it (I'm not sure I could follow it at 5 a.m.!) And that IS cool snow!!! (can you give any hints where the tut was?  ) |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2008 10:49:35 GMT -5
Ok I did have feather set at 0..But didn't have antilias checked nor was it set to inside..Tried all that and it still didn't work...So I thought what the heck..Start checking other things..First thing I checked was contiguous...And Whammo it worked... Now I got to go back and start all over because I think I wrote my font with antilias checked and it looks all jagged...
One thing about all this frustration,,I probably won't forget how to do this type of animating again..lol 
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