Moving images over static background effect

[mikeaja]

Hi all

I've just started experimenting with PTE. I did go through the user guide before asking here, but the guide seems only to deal with problems, issues and the menus of PTE. I see there are a number of submitted tutorials, but it is hard to know what they actually cover (when you are not familiar with all the terms).

I'm looking to learn 3-4 basic practical techniques to enable me to start building a slideshow with confidence.

The first thing I would like to do is create a 4-5 image slideshow, using an effect I've seen quite a lot, where the appearance is of one very large slide and we are moving around it, image to image. The best example I saw of this was where parts of the nearby images are visible in each slide. But this is not so important.

TheDom's '3D Scenary' template is sort of what I mean (although with the added 3D, more advanced than I am wanting to do).

[xahu34]

Try to learn the standard techniques for Pan, Zoom, and Rotation, see here:

Then you may have a look at the attached template

Regards,

Xaver

Stapel.zip

[mikeaja]

Thanks for that and the link. I'll take a good look at that tutorial avi there.

Thanks also for the template. Actually, it's an very cool but different effect to the one I was trying to describe. But perhaps I can use it to better explain. In yours, the appearance is that images move. However, what I was looking to do was the idea of moving over the images. Imagine, a real-life version with a video camera, where I'd glued 10 images to a back board. I then stand over the board, with the camera and move around focusing on each picture then moving on.

There's probably a much better way to explain what I mean.......

[Lin Evans]

Hi Mike,

Actually, though what you want to do is not terribly difficult, it is rather complex and you "probably" would be advised to buy theDom's template and study it to see how it's achieved.

When you put multiple images on a single background, you have two basic issues to deal with. The first issue is that each image lies on a separate layer. as you zoom in on an image, unless it's the top layer image, the other images will remain visible unless you keyframe their opacity to zero. Then to see subsequent images, you must keyframe them back to full opacity. This process must be repeated for each image unless you duplicate the original image on subsequent slides with the image to be zoomed in on in the top layer. Perhaps that's the easiest way to accomplish this, but you need to understand how layers work and such.

The bottom line is that this is a fairly grandiose project for your first one. I can make you a sample and show you how to do it, but I fear you will get lost in the process unless you first get a good background in using PTE.

The essence is that you create your initial image complete with all the small images which might be pinned to a bulletin board with push-pins (made of small png files with transparency). You then copy and paste this first slide as many times as you have images to scroll to and zoom in on. Then you modify each subsequent slide by moving the image to be zoomed in on to the top layer so that when you zoom, none of the other images will be superimposed on the main subject.

Then you simply go to each successive image, zoom in on the subject, and then zoom back out to the original frame. It will "appear" that you are always returning to the same image of the "set" of pictures, but really you will be going through the "set" of duplicate image but with the one you intend to zoom in on being on the top layer of the one displayed.

Best regards,

Lin

[xahu34]

Perhaps you may like the following simple project (to be used inside the folder with the images of my template from above)?

Regards,

Xaver

Matrix.zip

[mikeaja]

Thanks Lin and xahu34!

Lin, yes I bought theDom's template (3d scenery). It's good, although a fancier version of what I had in mind, but great for building a slideshow with at this stage. And I appreciate the detail in your post.

xahu34, that template is great, thanks. Yes, exactly what I meant. Never would have occurred to me to do it like that. Actually, the images weren't in the zip, but that didn't matter at all. It is a great example, and most importantly I can use it to build on.

Once I have finished my first project (using 3d scenery), I'm going to do another version using xahu's template, because then I think I'll have pretty much what I first imagined. This, initially, is a slideshow for a website about websites..... (planning to do 2 or 3 of those), then some that are tutorials about websites. I'll post a link to what I've done once it's ready...... you can see what a newbie does with PTE (after doing nothing else but that for an entire Sunday!).

Actually, when I first started searching for slideshow creators, I didn't find this one. There were various others that kept appearing in searches and forums, and it was 1 forum post recommending it that led me to PTE.