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Topic: photoshop woes....HELP!!
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JymJoneZ
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posted 03-12-2000 08:12 PM
I was working on a short 18 second lightsaber test in photoshop. I saved it a a .psd so I could finish it over 2 days without loosing layers. Now I'm complete and can not save it as a .flm file again!yes I flattened the image, yes its RGB. and still no .flm format available when I try to save, even if I choose "save copy". There has got to be a way to convert this back to a .flm file. HELP!!!! |
jabinya
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posted 03-12-2000 11:45 PM
Depending on which version of Photoshop you have , you could just go backwards, step by step in the history of the document to the point before you flattened the image. I'm not sure you if you can save it as a .flm unless that was the documents current status. |
Ivan
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posted 03-12-2000 11:50 PM
you could save each individual layer/frame what have you as a seperate frame in a sequence and inport it that waylike bmp sequence, targa, something like that..... never done filmstrip stuff in photoshop....sorry I cant be of more help |
buffy
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posted 03-13-2000 02:00 PM
18 seconds? Bah. I lost almost a minute´s work that way. You appearently cannot make it a filmstrip after having saved it as something else. Be careful in there.
Just thaught of something. Are you sabering with the line tool or the airbrush or the like? Perhaps one could make all the blades with the polygon lasso tool at once and fill and add blur and outer glow afterwards? That could be the fastest way. |
Film Boy
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posted 03-13-2000 03:00 PM
JymJzoneZ, try this:
Select your whole finished flattened movie. Copy. Open up the original filmstrip. Paste. Flatten. Save as .flm 
Buffy, using the polygon tool was how I first did sabers.
1. It takes too long to move and click to 4 corners (I even did 5 so that the end wouldn't be flat).
2. The width of the saber wobbles because you are not that accurate when selecting points. That makes it look a lot more fake.
3. I have not found a way to fill many selections with white paint all at once. As far as I can see, you have to draw each, then fill them individually, before moving to the next frame.
Using the line tool or paintbrush is better for saber purposes, in my opinion. |
buffy
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posted 03-13-2000 03:26 PM
You might be right. The line thing is the way I´ve done it aswell, so far. The cut and paste thing sounds simplisticly genious. You can fill multiple selections by the menu option fill. You make multiple selections by holding the shift key down. As for accuracy, why would selecting a point with the lasso tool be less accurate than making a point with any other tool? Nevermind. Have it your way. I still make the best scripts ;-) |
JymJoneZ
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posted 03-13-2000 09:07 PM
I had thought of copying the whole thing, opening the original .flm file and pasting, butt.....I'M STUPID AND DELETED THE ORIGINAL .FLM FILE!!! Oh well, learn hard and you don't make that mistake again. Hey Buffy, you have any clips online I can check out? later |
OneJaguar
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posted 03-13-2000 10:13 PM
You don't even need the original filmstrip, just one with the same resolution and number of frames as your PSD.[This message has been edited by OneJaguar (edited 03-13-2000).] |
JymJoneZ
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posted 03-14-2000 08:43 PM
actually you don't even need the same # frames. I just resampled a new clip, made a new .flm (that happened to be 2 seconds longer than original), then did a "select all & copy" from the .psd, then pasted it over the new .flm file, flattened and saved.with a new .flm in primere, i converted back to avi, cut off the extra frames and WooWhoo! success! |
