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[Lin Evans]

This beautiful still image was posted on FaceBook by a friend and I thought it would be fun to animate it.  PicturesToExe has all the neat features which allow lots of creativity. Just a sample...

[JRR]

neat Lin

[Tauratinzwe]

OK, Lin, we need a tutorial for this.  It’s too good to stay secret.

[Lin Evans]

Hi Guys,

O.K. - Actually this was a very simple and fairly straight-forward animation using PTE, Photoshop and SgirlzReflect. If you go to the Turorials section you will find my tutorial on how to use SqirlzReflect (a free software available for download on the web). SgirlzReflect make it easy to set up rippling water. Just create an animated gif and use it in PTE. The end result of the work there is usually a bit too intense for what I like so it's very simple to just overlay the original jpg and modulate the amount of ripple by adjusting the opacity of the jpg overlay. So essentially you have the original image, the SgirlzReflect ripple in the layer above and the original image duplicated and on the top layer. Then a mask was created in Photoshop, but in this video I recreated the entire process and used a PTE mask template with lots of blur around the edges. Inside this mask I ran a video of a surf line with the angle, intensity, hue, saturation and lightness controlled by PTE. The mask and the video were rotated to fit the still image surfline. After that I decided that there was a bit more ripple going on in the beach area so I created a PNG file in PhotoShop with transparency on the top and the area under the beach line original. Then overlaying that on the entire composition, I adjusted the transparency of that area below the surf line to modulate the degree of ripple only there. Below is the brief tutorial posted on YouTube and embedded here...

Best regards,

Lin

 

[Tauratinzwe]

Thanks for the lesson, Lin!