Steve...don't let this scare you
Jan 11, 2009 14:11:07 GMT -5
Post by Huronna on Jan 11, 2009 14:11:07 GMT -5
You asked how I did the moving siggie. There was a tut someplace for "moving clouds" and I sort of used that basic idea. A lot of people asked how I did it, so I wrote it out...sort of, but no screen shots sorry. Thank goodness I kept this because I'd never be able to write it out again LOL
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.
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.
WOW HURONNA!! MY GOD YOU ARE SO SWEET! WISH I WAS THERE TO GIVE YOU A BIG HUG TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUICK RESPONSE!!! I WILL SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS AND TRY THEM OUT ONE DAY! I GET MORE TIME MOST OVER THE WEEKENDS BUT I WILL TRY AS SOON AS I GET A CHANCE TO GIVE IT A TRY!! CAN'T WAIT TO BE ABLE TO LEARN IT!!