Hi!
I was just playing with the Sinedots II-plugin found here:
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http://www.philipp-spoeth.de/photoshop/sinedots2.php>
and realized it created kind of similar results as in my topic but still not quite the same. I'd like to try this technique some more but haven't got a clue where to begin, so if anyone could drop a suitable keyword for me to Google (or even better if there's some kind of tutorial out there) i'd be more than happy :)
Oh yeah, and Happy Easter to those celebrating it!
#1
The image on the Acrobat 8 box was created from a photo captured as a result of experiments with "tossed camera" exposures.
Read on for more:
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#2
Have a look at "Moving lines" or "Some more" on the link here:
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.plc/web-content/I/1/Sample s/NG26/NG26.html>
Created in a vector based application that now no longer exists
#3
"Created in a vector based application that now no longer exists "
Here ya go, Deebs. Some old school GIF animation style, in applications that do still exist...Illustrator 8 and ImageReady 7 (full file size is about 1.25 MB):
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http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1bHHlCAshCKkKPJ0ax AXLc6mRl0s>
#4
Anyone for a game of Qix?
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#5
C'mon Phos - spill the beans.
Illustrator is not (yet) one of my strong points.
#6
In a nutshell...
Illustrator:
* Create two arbitrary lines
* Blend (specified number of steps) between them
* Select one of the lines and move it
* Screen Shot
* Repeat steps 3 & 4 as often as you want
ImageReady:
* Load-folder of images as frames (making sure they are sequentially named helpsI used a utility to rename all files as: 001.png, 002.png, 003.png...065.png)
* Determine full boundary for all frames, then crop
* Copy and paste all frames after the last one, then reverse their order * Set Color table
* Save Optimized As...
* ???
* Profit!
Done.
There may be easier ways to do this, especially with newer versions of the apps in question, but I just wanted to show what's possible with old, coal-fired software.
#7
Sounds good enough for me.
Can one perform crops in Illustrator too?
#8
Well, kind of...but how you go about it depends on the version of Illustrator you're working with.
If you're looking to do something like I did, I suppose you could simply export each successive image as a JPEG or PNG or GIF or whatever. And you could set up a hot-key shortcut to do that drudgery for you. You just have to be careful to not move your objects beyond the limits of your page boundary in Illustrator.
The reason I captured each successive movement of the line-blend as a full-monitor screen shot was because when I imported all the screen shots as frames into ImageReady, it placed the objects of the the piece in the exact same position within ImageReady's workspace.
I was using a huge document size setup in Illustrator...screen caps were smaller in pixel size that the document size setup I was working with.
#9
I found it.
Object > Crop area > make/release > click on document bounds > resize > Object > crop area > make > Bongo! (Illustrator CS)
This places crop marks into the documents and subsequent File > Export conforms to those crop marks (it is a trundle through file types though.
I'll be busy for a while but i'll play with this to see if I can combine the steps into an action type thingy with keyboard shortcuts.
A non destructive crop really is rather excellent.
#10
Sweet!
I'll try the suggestions! :)
At first i was a bit worried that i'd really have to toss my camera around until i'd get the desired effect, but there seems to be more reasonable ways to do this.
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