potwnc Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Here's something that I first did in 5.5 with a lot of effort that is made so much easier with masks. Even then, in 5.6 I still had to work around a limitation of how masks are currently implemented - I had to drag the first keyframe of the photo to the left of the timeframe = 0 point before I could size it correctly to fill the frame.This is a 1MB zip file that extracts to a .mp4 file that plays for 9 seconds. As we zoom into a map of Westcentral Asia to the part that is the Tibetan Plateau a mask reveals a photo that I took from a plane flying over the real Tibetan Plateau. The mask zooms in time with the map zoom and at the same time fades to reveal the photo under the mask.I think this is a good example of how masks can be used.www.peoplesoftheworld.org/demos/maskdemo.zipRay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yachtsman1 Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Here's something that I first did in 5.5 with a lot of effort that is made so much easier with masks. Even then, in 5.6 I still had to work around a limitation of how masks are currently implemented - I had to drag the first keyframe of the photo to the left of the timeframe = 0 point before I could size it correctly to fill the frame.This is a 1MB zip file that extracts to a .mp4 file that plays for 9 seconds. As we zoom into a map of Westcentral Asia to the part that is the Tibetan Plateau a mask reveals a photo that I took from a plane flying over the real Tibetan Plateau. The mask zooms in time with the map zoom and at the same time fades to reveal the photo under the mask.I think this is a good example of how masks can be used.www.peoplesoftheworld.org/demos/maskdemo.zip.RayHi RayPasted the link in my browser but it said "navigate from our web site" & I couldn't get any further???Yachtsman1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Eric,Leave out the "dot" after zip?.... and paste in exactly as given.DaveG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yachtsman1 Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Eric,Leave out the "dot" after zip?.... and paste in exactly as given.DaveGHi DaveThanks for that, done it, got the teeshirt Regards EricPS. Don't suppose you know how to batch process colour to mono in elements 5, at the moment I can only resize, adjust contrast & sharpen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fh1805 Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Hi Eric,Elements doesn't allow you to do what you want because it doesn't support automated actions; other than those provided via File...Process Multiple Files.You could try IrfanView (a piece of freeware). This does appear to allow batch conversion to grayscale: but I've never tried this feature.I use IrfanView to do batch resizing - because it allows me to do landscape and portrait orientations in a single pass. I also use it to do batch renaming. I was put on to it by Lin Evans here on this forum.regards,Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Like Peter said.It might be the right time to upgrade to Elements 7 - You could benefit a lot from it.Actions are a central part of the way I work. Pressing one key, for instance, can change Mode from 16 bit to 8 bit, flatten an image and convert from RGB to sRGB instantly.DaveG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fh1805 Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Dave,Are you stating that Elements 7 includes a full implementation of "Actions"?regards,Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yachtsman1 Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Hi ChapsThanks for the suggestions, Peter just tried to download ifranview & got a nasty little red beast on the first suggested site, have you got a link to where you got your copy. Dave I'm afraid elements 7 is outside my photography budget at present.Regards Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fh1805 Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Eric,If by "nasty little red beast" you mean the icon in the attachment below then you found IrfanView. When I downloaded IrfanView, many months ago now, all I did was Googled to find the website. Cannot remember what it was called now.regards,Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Hi Peter,Not "full", and I had to open it up to find out just how much support there was.I use CS3 on a day-to-day basis and saw something about actions in Elements 7 thinking that it was "full" implementation.It seems that it has an Action Player and around 15 ready made actions.It also will play Photoshop Actions (.atn) which can be loaded into Elements 7 (restrictions apply). There are literally hundreds of actions available on the web for download and there are people who will create actions for you as indeed anyone with a full version of Photoshop could.So, Eric, don't buy Elements 7 - it might be a big leap forward in some respects but for actions - no. Reading the fine print is always a good thing!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 davethe red beast is his road kill icon -- he has others that you can selectnext see support grouphttp://en.irfanview-forum.de/vb/index.php when you download the program ALSO GET THE PLUGINSpay attention to screens when you do installhttp://www.irfanview.net/there are also add ons that make your life easier when doing things with the probramsearch for baxbex irfanview plugin http://www.baxbex.com/ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yachtsman1 Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Eric,If by "nasty little red beast" you mean the icon in the attachment below then you found IrfanView. When I downloaded IrfanView, many months ago now, all I did was Googled to find the website. Cannot remember what it was called now.regards,PeterHi PeterThought the red beast was my spybot warning Anyway, I've downloaded it and tried the batch conversion to greyscale, I'm afraid they are still cast blue. So unless someone has another "free" idea, it will be convert 197 slides manually Regards Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Eric,If you open one of the converted images up in Elements and look at its MODE - what does it say?Is it converting to greyscale or desaturating (badly).DaveG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Hi PeterThought the red beast was my spybot warning Anyway, I've downloaded it and tried the batch conversion to greyscale, I'm afraid they are still cast blue. So unless someone has another "free" idea, it will be convert 197 slides manually Regards EricERICYOU MIGHT TRYhttp://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/index.php?3.0FOR BULK RESIZE and do minor adjustmentsi resise al my picts with this , with a setting recommended by IgorLANCZOS3i find it a nicer guibut have not figgered out to do grayscale with itSMALL FOOTPRINT AS WELLken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wideangle Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 EricGo to www.faststone.org, and have a look at their two freeware offerings for picture manipulation, and also resizing - both very good.Regards,wideangle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yachtsman1 Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Eric,If you open one of the converted images up in Elements and look at its MODE - what does it say?Is it converting to greyscale or desaturating (badly).DaveGHi DaveIn Mode it says RGB Colour???Regards Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 So, rather than convert to greyscale it has DESATURATED and not done a very good job.DaveG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yachtsman1 Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 So, rather than convert to greyscale it has DESATURATED and not done a very good job.DaveGHi DaveJust before I went to bed, I took one of the original images with the blue cast and ran it through Ifranview with Greyscale highlighted, it removed the blue cast. So either I am using the ifranview batch process incorrectly, (most probable) or it can't handle that process in batch. I've re-converted 95% of the slides to mono using elements5 now, so to obtain consistancy I will finish the remainder. Thanks for everybodies help. Obviously there is some mileage in experimentation.Finally I must apologise to Brian for hijacking his thread. Can we call this particular subject closed. Maybe the forum needs a section for general photography problems as there was a lot of interest? .Regards EricYachtsman1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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