Fog

[Guest Yachtsman1]

Hi

I use Elements 5 to edit my pictures, I am preparing a show with fog in the title and want to have the opening shot enshrouded in fog then slowly clearing, I've considered haveing a layer of cloud over the opening slide but it wasn't very realistic.

Yachtsman1

[Lin Evans]

Try this and see if it looks like what you want to do.

http://www.learntomakeslideshows.net/sample/fogfadepte.zip

Take the original image and copy it and paste over a white jpg. Next use the eraser tool at about 20% opacity and a huge brush (large enough to cover your entire image at once) to make the image appear "foggy". You can also apply about a 1% gaussian blur to add to the foggy look. Next place this fog images in the slide list followed by the original crisp image. Set the timing on the first image to about 12 seconds and with a nine second fade transition. Set the second image to whatever time you choose with about a 4 second fade transition. Note that I also used a bit of opacity fade in on the first image. See keyframes and opacity....

Best regards,

Lin

[Guest Yachtsman1]

Try this and see if it looks like what you want to do.

http://www.learntomakeslideshows.net/sample/fogfadepte.zip

Take the original image and copy it and paste over a white jpg. Next use the eraser tool at about 20% opacity and a huge brush (large enough to cover your entire image at once) to make the image appear "foggy". You can also apply about a 1% gaussian blur to add to the foggy look. Next place this fog images in the slide list followed by the original crisp image. Set the timing on the first image to about 12 seconds and with a nine second fade transition. Set the second image to whatever time you choose with about a 4 second fade transition. Note that I also used a bit of opacity fade in on the first image. See keyframes and opacity....

Best regards,

Lin

Hi Lin

That's exactly what I want. I have now downloaded an elements plug in filter that gives that effect. Thanks for your help.

Yachtsman1