Lin Evans Posted August 23, 2013 Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 Hi Guys,Creating this little one minute slide was actually a good deal more complex than it might appear. It begins with rippling water in a lake then near the end, the ripples are gradually stilled. The complexity consists of animating portions of a scene separated by intervening objects such as the large tree. It's complicated by the vegetation in the foreground and around the edge of the lake in several places. I worked out procedures for getting this to look as natural as possible in terms of animating a still image. Obviously, the ideal way to do this type thing would be to set up a tripod and shoot a minute or so of high resolution video, then take a still frame without moving the camera. They it would be as simple as a two slide dissolve transition, but there may be times when that isn't possible, and the effect is still desired.If there is sufficient interest, I'll make a tutorial to show anyone interested how to proceed. It isn't difficult to learn, but it involves learning a few things about some other free software and how to combine the output and that of perhaps Photoshop, (or if you don't have PhotoShop, PixBuilder Studio will do nicely) to render the final slide. It can produce a very nice slide to spice up one or two of your favorite slides for a show....Link to Autum Lake (about 13 meg)Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted August 23, 2013 Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 Lin is getting bored while waiting for ver 8.0 so he is being creative and feeding all his findings to Igor for possible insertion in a future ver.)keep on being bored mate -- you might try having some trout jumping in your next version :rolleyes:/> ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRR Posted August 23, 2013 Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 Nicely done Lin !!(I like Ken's trout idea - I was thinking along the lines of someone (out of sight) dropping a stone in the still water and concentric circles emanating from the centre of the drop. :rolleyes: ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted August 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 Hey Ken,LOL - We're all excited about 8.0 - going to be fun for sure!Best regards,Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted August 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 Thanks Jim,You mean something like this?Morning Glory Pool link (about 14 meg)Best regards,Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted August 23, 2013 Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 LIN you the man :rolleyes:/> ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonemason Posted August 23, 2013 Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 Beautiful Lin, any chance of a tutorial on creating that effect please.Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRR Posted August 23, 2013 Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 Thanks Jim,You mean something like this?Morning Glory Pool link (about 14 meg)Best regards,LinYup, that'll do !! :P BTW both files downloaded lickety-split unlike the last one ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted August 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2013 Hi Geoff,Thanks!! Yes, I will get on that first thing next week - probably have it up by Tuesday or so...Best regards,LinBeautiful Lin, any chance of a tutorial on creating that effect please.Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonemason Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Thanks Lin looking forward to that.Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonemason Posted August 28, 2013 Report Share Posted August 28, 2013 Hi Lin many thanks for the tutorials, excellent work and much appreciated.RegardsGeoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted August 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2013 Thanks Jeff,I added a link to download SqirlzWaterReflection to the Tutorials Section this morning. This is really great freeware and has recently been upgraded so you can modify existing AVI files.Best regards,Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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