Editing in Photoshop does it give you nightmares?

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Postby Poetic_Kaos » Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:33 pm

6 hours for 5 frames. I can't say that is normal. I've rotoscoped a CG character doing a cartwheel in a low contrast enviroment, and it took less time.
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Postby Ashyukun » Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:38 pm

Castor Troy wrote:When you get better at it, you can cut out characters within 5 minutes or less. It's extremely short and easier when the character is zoomed in alot nearly taking up the entire screen. :)


I've always found it easier to cut out characters and objects in AE than Photoshop personally, but yeah- once you get good at it using any program, you can really fly.
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Postby genestarwind21122 » Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:07 pm

Thanks to everyone for their help. I have the problem corrected.

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But still it can be a nightmare sometimes.
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Postby -Sage- » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:18 am

A....a... ahahaha... 0_o
I have only one question - how much does it take to make a good, fine AMV? A week? or a month? (Actualy i think it's a worthly spent time because when people work a lot on something one - it gets shiny as a daimond :D )
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Postby SuperFusion » Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:43 am

You can spend 6 months on a vid and it can still suck.
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Postby trythil » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:02 am

Scintilla wrote:
trythil, in <a href=http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=734575#734575>a different thread</a>, wrote:<a href="http://www.gimp.org/">GIMP</a> 2.3.3 has just been released. It contains a prototype of the <a href="http://www.siox.org/">Simple Interactive Object Extraction</a> foreground-selection algorithm, which has some pretty cool applications for rotoscoping and similar operations.

Thought someone here might find this interesting. Can't wait to try it myself.


Holy crap, people actually read that thread?

I thought freedom had been rendered obsolete by piracy.
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Postby bum » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:28 am

trythil wrote:I thought freedom had been rendered obsolete by piracy.


Piracy doesnt stop premier crashing :P
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Postby devilmaykickass » Fri Aug 12, 2005 7:26 am

In the video before my latest I did a shitload of frame by frame editing in photoshop...pain in the ass it was, but you can do neat things that way. It's just a shame premiere doesn't like, have green screening abilities and such built in...oh well, I guess it's not a big deal, and probably better because Photoshop is a trillion times more stable than Premiere will ever be.
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Postby [Mike of the Desert] » Fri Aug 12, 2005 7:48 am

The "secret" is to play music (relax music) in the background
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Postby JenCM18 » Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:42 am

I don't think its pain at all to edit in photoshop for me it takes only a few minutes to get rid of the background of a screen shot. I've never actually counted how long but I know it doesn't take me an hour to do just one picture.

And also its better to use the polygonal lasso tool in photoshop and just zoom in twice or three times and then use it to erase the background.
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Postby Sephiroth » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:59 am

Just use the lasso, go to quick mask mode, color the little areas inbetween red(Being the color used for the quick mask) and you got your mask marked out. Simple, easy, fast.

There isn't that much use for masks, amvs usually have really crappy compositing anyways. If you can do it right and with a point though, more power to you.
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Postby Scintilla » Fri Aug 12, 2005 11:17 am

JenCM18 wrote:And also its better to use the polygonal lasso tool in photoshop and just zoom in twice or three times and then use it to erase the background.

I thought that too, until I discovered the Pen tool, which you can use to make Paths of Bezier curves.

What's even better about this is that you can copy a Path from one image to another and then just move the points/curves you need to move instead of having to redo the entire thing.

If I'd known this in 2004, AEO:EB would have gone a <i>lot</i> faster. :oops:
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Postby [Mike of the Desert] » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:18 pm

Is really a pen tool, so useful to do paths and masks? I never praticed that, but "thinking", in my mind it turns out a little badly :?
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Postby §Daisuke » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:43 pm

if ur want to cut the background out from a image... or rendering as it's called the polygonal lasso tool is the best... if you want the image to be perfect with no choppy edges then zoom in to 1600%
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Postby ANTDrakko » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:52 pm

§Daisuke wrote:if ur want to cut the background out from a image... or rendering as it's called the polygonal lasso tool is the best... if you want the image to be perfect with no choppy edges then zoom in to 1600%


Wow. You do it the hard way.

The pen tool is better, quicker and more efficient. Once you learn how to use it, there is absolutely nothing you can't trace perfectly.

More than likely, if you've ever seen a complex and beautiful image that was made in Adobe Illustrator, it was made completely with the Pen tool. I wish I could find that example file I had for my graphic design class a while ago, but I'm sure you can use your imagination ^_^; .

Pen tool > You.

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