Photoshop Video Tutorial

[Tomuk]

Hi! Everyone,

A week or so ago I promised to make a video tutorial (using Photoshop) on how I selected the penny-farthing cut out for my sequence “Stepping back in Time”.

I have now completed it and the link is below, please don’t expect to much as I’m not very good at this Tutorial business. I hope you can follow it, but if not you can always contact me.

I have also provided a link to a tutorial on one of the methods I use for producing shadows, please have a look and give me feed back if you found them useful and easy to follow.

Here’s the links…..

Selection http://www.mediafire.com/?mnbnyowusld

Shadow http://www.mediafire.com/?vjutcot1jn2

[jfa]

Thanks for the very informative and useful tutorials Tom, much appreciated and well worth the download.

I had to download the TSCC.exe file from here:

http://www.techsmith.com/download/codecs.asp

to make the video run, I thought I had all the codex etc I would ever need loaded.

Link enclosed in-case anyone else has a problem. Error message was "cannot find 'vids:tscc' decompressor"

Just a small hint for the future Tom the volume was very low on playback, maybe a little more on record next time.

Then again it may be my ageing hearing going out the door. LOL

[Ken Cox]

Tom WMP 11 wont play on mine even after re installing the techsmith codec

but

IRFANVIEW, DIVX PLAYER, NERO SHOWTIME DVD XPLAYER AND VLC WILL PLAY IT

CAMTASIA, POWER DVD, WINDVD PLAYER WMP CLASSIC 6491 WILL NOT

QUICKTIME PLAYS THE SOUND BUT NOT THE VIDEO -- CODECS REQ'D

also Tom only one show that you made for Ronnie last year will play with wmp 11, the other 4 avis will not

so it looks to me wmp 11 is the problem

ken

[JEB]

Hi Tom,

Firstly, thank you for all the time you have taken to produce and make available these two tutorials. I find them both very enlightening.

You are clearly a man with incredible patience. I refer specifically to the selection process you adopted which gave such a wonderful result in your show.

I have to say I like your delivery in the tutorials. Your easy and relaxed presentation style makes it all sound very simple. However I suspect the secret is to a large extent, as ever, in the quality of the original image and specifically in working with a high resolution image.

I also had the problems some folks are having in opening the tutorials, which I suspect is why you have had so few replies to date. I could not open them with Windows Media Player (still images no audio) or Quick Time (caused PC to freeze), however Real Player did open them. A free programme somebody mentioned recently on this wonderful forum, DivX Player, also opened them.

I hope this information helps you and others get access to these great tutorials.

Regards

John

[Tomuk]

I also had the problems some folks are having in opening the tutorials, which I suspect is why you have had so few replies to date. I could not open them with Windows Media Player (still images no audio) or Quick Time (caused PC to freeze), however Real Player did open them. A free programme somebody mentioned recently on this wonderful forum, DivX Player, also opened them.

I hope this information helps you and others get access to these great tutorials.

Regards

John

Hi! John & Ken,

Thanks for your kind words. As to the codec problem, I myself suffered form this at the beginning But Lin Evens soon solved it for me by recommending a Video/Audio player called VLC, you can download it free of charge from the Internet, and as Lin said, I have not been able to find an audio or video file it won't open and play.

As Lin is our resident expert on all things Video I'm sure he will be only to pleased to help with any problems you may encounter.

As other members of this forum suggested, I have now consigned Windows Media Player to the recycle bin where it belongs.

Tom.

[Ken Cox]

Tom

"I have now consigned Windows Media Player to the recycle bin where it belongs."

what is going to be your default player when you make an exe -- what program is p2e going to look for?

ken

[fh1805]

Ken, don't confuse the poor fellow! An exe file runs in its own window and doesn't require any "player" software.

[Ken Cox]

PTE LOOKS FOR WMP TO TEST THE FUNCTION -- for a preset time

or has that feature been deleted?

ken

[Ken Cox]

Photoshop Video Tutorial, Selections and Shadows

I have spent the morning converting Tom's avi's to different formats to see if they can be played with wmp 11 normally

I made one set as WMV's and one set as an avi using the xvid codec

and then uploaded them to mediafire

TOM'S TUTORIALS_WMV 640 450.zip = 82 mb

your download link is

http://www.mediafire.com/?vjdnddz3wlm

TOM'S TUTORIAL'S_XVID CODEC_1024_740.zip = 58.7 mb

your download link is

http://www.mediafire.com/?14vmtwhssjf

please try them out -- thks

ken

[Hawk]

Hi Tom

please don’t expect to much as I’m not very good at this Tutorial business

You under estimate yourself – great job.

Appreciated.

Viewed with WMP ver 10 no problem, I do not have any codec packs installed.

So as Ken has mentioned there seems to be a problem with ver 11.

Also as a test with your original AVI, I created a MPEG-2 with VideoBuilder and also burned to DVD. – burned / played ok on TV.

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Ken

I fully understand the converted file links above were to test with WMP ver 11

Just thought I would pass this along for your archives.

TOM'S TUTORIAL'S_XVID CODEC_1024_740.zip

The .avi converted file opens in my ver 10 WMP player which is my default player for .avi's

TOM'S TUTORIALS_WMV 640 450.zip

The wmv converted files plays OK and opens in my Nero Showtime ( my default for WMV )

[Ken Cox]

Ralph

thks for test

ken

[Tomuk]

Ralph

Thanks for your hard work, I myself have created DVDs from AVi tutorials in the past, (also using Video builder), I think the problem is with the none standardization of video cocec, while while different software providers are using their own we will always have this problem.

Tom.