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Perspective And Fooling The Eye

This illusion using perspective is fun and looks pretty good if not overdone or over tweaked. Your mileage may vary as far as results, depending on the choice of image in context with your show and how much you choose to vary your X & Y settings and pan settings between kf1 and kf2. I believe if too much stretching is applied, it will tend to look terribly fake.

In the example, a 3rd kf was added at the end of the movement to give the viewer a short rest on the image (kf2 and kf3 settings match) but it isn’t necessary.

Here are two more examples of this effect in this short video.

Special Effects | admin | July 30, 2010 4:32 pm | Comments Off

Dissolving A Second Person

If you’ve ever wanted to remove a subject from a scene, here’s an easy way to do it with ProShow Producer. This depends if you are satisfied with the remaining background showing through. It also depends upon if the image, if it’s similar to the example and the two people are far enough away from each other to apply the technique.

I like to do things the easy way when I can, so no Photoshopping is necessary to accomplish this task given the elements used and desired end effect are similar to the example. Since photos will vary and your choice for the end result may vary as well – YMMV (your mileage may vary). You may have to resort to the more difficult task of cloning out the person in Photoshop after all. But for now, here is a simple way to do it.

Obviously, you’re not limited to just removing people. This works for anything distracting in the scene that you want to remove in your slide. If you never want the element or person displayed at all, leave out layer 1 and that should do it!