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[Joseph W. bourke]

Hi Kevin –

It may not be the ideal way to go, but what we do here is set our desktop to be a very large size (I think 1920 x 1200 is the max on your G5). Then just hit Command-Shift-3 or Command-Shift-4. I’m a PC user, so I hope my memory serves me correctly.

Then we open a new Photoshop document, paste the image in as high-rez as possible, then import the file into After Effects and do whatever animations are needed. We usually make the layer 3D and angle it so the animation is a bit more interesting than just moving over a flat image. Lighting with some falloff helps as well. If you have the time and budget, cut out some of the key elements and give them drop shadows to enhance the feeling of depth even more. Good luck!

Joe Bourke
Art Director / WMUR-TV

[Kevin Mcquade]

Thanks, I’ll give that a shot.

[Sam Moulton]

lots of lines and most text on a web page is 1 pixel wide. If you take a great big screen shot and shrink it down you’ll end up with a mess. better approach would be to take a small screenshot say 600 X 800 then scale up with nearest neighbor to make the thin lines at least 2 pixels wide so they will show up on tv