Epson Photo Plus - PhotoPlus Color Photo Scanner User's Guide download pdf (Page 191)

Creating Animations 179

Getting started with animation

Animation creates an illusion of motion or change by displaying a series of still

pictures, rapidly enough to fool the eye—or more accurately, the brain. With

PhotoPlus, it's easy to create and edit images with multiple frames, then export

them as animated GIFs that a web browser can play back, or AVI movies for

multimedia applications. You use exactly the same tools and interface as for

creating standard, multi-layer PhotoPlus images, with an extra tab, the

Animation tab, that includes all the additional controls you need to set up

frames, add special effects, and preview the animation. Once you're satisfied, use

the Export Optimizer to output to Animated GIF or AVI movie.

PhotoPlus gives you the choice of creating your animations from scratch,

importing a .GIF or .AVI file to edit, or converting existing photos to an animation

by selecting Convert to Animation from the File menu. Either way, once

PhotoPlus detects an animation file, it switches on the Animation tab. If the image

file is new, you'll see a single, blank frame, labeled "Frame 1." If you've imported an

animation, the tab displays each frame separately. Animation files can have one

layer, or many, but all their layers are standard (transparent) layers; there's no

Background layer. If a photo is used, the first frame will be the photo image.

The Animation tab only displays when an animation is currently open.

Layers and frames

Animations are created in the Animation tab (docked next to the Documents

tab at the bottom of your workspace) which works in conjunction with the

Layers tab. The tab displays a sequence of frame thumbnails. Each frame is a

different state of the image, defined in terms of which layers are shown or

hidden, the position of content on each shown layer, and the opacity of each

shown layer.

1 2 ... 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 ... 285 286

No comments

Epson Photo Plus - PhotoPlus Color Photo Scanner User's Guide Page 191