Jeff Memmer
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It sounds like you need to also view this video from them, titled “Behind the Green Screen,” where they briefly tell you all the plug-ins they use, and how they managed to build the composite with a very tight budget over a 2 month period…
https://www.apple.com/pro/video/belief/video2.html
Good Luck
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Did you create a triangle gradient and use that as your “ground” source file for the waves to interact with??
Once you place the ground source file in wave world, be sure to increase the steapness so that the water actually interacts with the ground shape. They create a very similar effect in the Total Training video for waveworld using various gradients as the ground file, then moving the “producer” around on the screen.
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Did you create a triangle gradient and use that as your “ground” source file for the waves to interact with??
Once you place the ground source file in wave world, be sure to increase the steapness so that the water actually interacts with the ground shape. They create a very similar effect in the Total Training video for waveworld using various gradients as the ground file, then moving the “producer” around on the screen.
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I just received the academic version. Which plug-ins do you want to know about.
I have purchased all of my previous and the current bundle (Creative Suite Production Studio Premium (with Flash 8)) from https://www.needsoftware.com/
They are very reliable I also purchase all of the Total Training videos (bundles) through them also, which you do not need to be a student to receive their discounts – very awesome deal, which I highly recommend all serious learners to pick up.
I have the TT Advanced Adobe After Effects 7 Pro dvd, but I haven’t started on them yet. Been viewing the 6.5 version still (the rotoscoping, keying, and shatter, are all worth the price alone). Photoshop was the first program I decided to work on, which was the smartest thing to do in my case, because you use it in just about every type of application.
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Interesting — I just watched the Total Training section on Rotoscoping (which is AWESOME) and this was the exact subject they covered at the very end…
Basically, Adobe RGB+Alpha may not be compatible with other systems/programs; so, to get around this issue (or whenever passing your work off to someone else), you (may) need to make a Roto Matte.
Rotoscope your image out -> fill the image layer with white so that the masked out portion is black and your image is completely white. Export the comp (or frame in your case).
Then, for Vegas, you would need to drag both the B&W (matte) image, along with the original image into your timeline and drop them on top of one another. Apply a lumi matte (key) to the B&W image which should be the exact dimensions of the original, allowing the parts of the original image that you wanted to pass through the matte.
This way, you can still maninupulate the new lumi matte, if necessary; whereas, if you export it all as one file, it may not work, and/or you may decide that the matte needs adjusted later on.
Hope that helps.
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Try opening the Task Manager, then in the Applications window, double click on Photoshop and see if that forces the window completely open. I was having similar issues with the Adobe help window, where it would open as a minimized window, but would not open when clicking on it nor when you click restore or maximize, but the task manager did the trick and seemed to jog the window open correctly. If not, sounds like you might have downloaded something that’s not compatible with CS2.
Good luck.
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Change background back to Grey:
1. Open the Color Palette
2. Click on the open dialogue Icon in the uppr right corner (looks like a small grey arrow in a white circle
3. This opens up another menu -> click on Grayscale Slider
4. Dial in 28%, which is the default background color for Photoshop CS, whereas 30% is for CS2.
5. Use the paint bucket tool to fill the background as posted above by Lutic.
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“ImageReady is designed for professional Web page layout.”
-pg 243 of the Photoshop CS User Guide
Chapter 12: Designing Web pages
Chapter 13: Creating Complex Web Graphics (ImageReady)
Chapter 14: Preparing Graphics for the WebChapter 12 goes into great detail on slicing in Photoshop, but especially in ImageReady (I just so happen to have looked into the same issue a few days ago).