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Posted on 29/08/18 4:37:35 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5527 Reply  |
Photo animator plug in for After Effects
While looking for something else entirely I stumbled across something called Simple Photo Animator. Its an After Effects plugin that animates still photographs creating pseudo parallax as it does so. I don't use after effects so I haven't tried it, but it looks incredibly simple to use. Basically it appears to work on photographs that do not contain central foreground objects. You use the pen tool to define an area of the picture as 'background'. As the picture moves in the animation the parts of it outside this area are moved progressively more the further away from it they are. It's obviously going to be rather limited but the little demos look surprisingly good tracking in and out, tracking sideways and even rotation. You can add your own foreground and mid ground objects on eight different different depth layers as well. Don't know if anyone apart from Anna and Sara use After Effects but it looks like it might be fun to play with ..... and if it works, useful. I don't see a free trial but there's lots of online info and tutorials so you can see what it does. It's only 22$ through Envato so you might think it worth a gamble. If you do .... let me know. I am curious ........ _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 30/08/18 08:19:05 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
You might want to check out Qlilpn, which does a similar thing in Photoshop, with a prominent foreground subject: https://creativepro.com/qlilipn/ |
Posted on 30/08/18 08:29:16 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5527 Reply |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
Looks interesting. Not for me as I don't animate - I stumbled across the other quite by accident. But it looks like fun. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 30/08/18 11:42:33 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2884 Reply  |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
This looks great David, Im just downloading it now and will have a play around with it. Thanks for sharing this 
Will look into Qlilpn too Steve _________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
Posted on 30/08/18 1:32:32 PM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2884 Reply |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
http://vimeo.com/287427901 That was great David. Very simple to use. I just did a quick practice run and this is how it worked out. With the right image, it will be very useful _________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
Posted on 30/08/18 2:01:03 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5527 Reply |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
I think, used with discretion, it will be quite convincing. Glad it worked out. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 01/09/18 10:03:39 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3094 Reply  |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
I really like the parallax view effect... but as far as me using discretion... 
I only make these on occasion, my DPAM software has a similar effect built into it. It takes a lot of frames for it to look reasonably good and makes for some rather large file-size gifs. I looped this example only because I wasn't sure what else to do with it. 
TRIVIA: If you were still using a dial-up modem, it would take 4452.28 sec at 28.8 Kbps and 2265.47 sec at 56.6 Kbps to download this image on 'Ye Olde Internet'. |
Posted on 02/09/18 8:42:50 PM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
Ah… the bad old days… |
Posted on 03/09/18 10:01:12 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5527 Reply |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
This is drifting way off topic but ..........
My first modem looked like this: 
It was connected to this: 
It is the original Tandy TRS 80 Model 1. I bought it back to the UK from the USA. I think it preceded it's British equivalent the PET by a year or so. It had 4K of RAM and you loaded the software from cassette tapes. I later added the expansion interface to this. It sat under the monitor and expanded the RAM to an almighty 16K!! 
It also permitted the use of 5 ¼" floppy disk drives. They had a capacity of 8OK if I remember correctly. A company called PERTEC produced a 'high density' drive some years later which had a capacity of 360K. The drives were horribly expensive and cost more than the computer itself! The modem also had to compete for handset use with my first answering machine as well. It had a mechanical arm that simulated lifting the handset when triggered by sound of ringing. It had no physical connection to the phone line at all. In fact in the UK it was still illegal to connect anything to your phone line except BT's own phone's. 
There were no printers in those days you had to use a teletype machine. I used this: 
It used perforated fanfold paper that sat in a box under the desk. It was a very low resolution 'dotty' pin matrix printer. Fine for listings and technical stuff but no use for letters or decent printed output. Pin matrix printers produced a distinctive and unpleasant high pitched whining buzz when in use. To enable proper quality print I upgraded later to a "Diablo" Daisy Wheel teletype. This produced the same quality as a good electric typewriter but it was heavy and bulky. It was also monstrously noisy - you could feel the desk vibrate from the hammering on the daisy wheel. It could print on perforated fanfold or plain paper (for which you removed the gizmo on top). 
It all looks very primitive but you have to think of it in context. My father worked as my part time bookkeeper (the only word in the english language to have three successive double letters) and I bought this for him. They weren't called calculators in those days - they were "adding machines". That's what they did. Calculators were just starting to appear but were prohibitively expensive. 
Times they are a changing ......... _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 03/09/18 10:01:29 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5527 Reply |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
Oooops. Double post removed. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 03/09/18 12:46:09 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3094 Reply |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
Interesting David, my first 'computer' was an Atari 800. I can remember typing in several pages of dos only to have the program fail. Finding a typo in all of that was a nightmare at best.  |
Posted on 03/09/18 1:08:35 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5527 Reply |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
The seemingly compulsory computer beige/cream colour. How many years did that go on for? _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 03/09/18 2:27:22 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3094 Reply |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
I started thinking about some of the computers I've owned over the years and thought about my first laptop from the 1990s. It wasn't a Micron, but looked very much like the one shown here. It used the little toggle switch in the keyboard center for a mouse. Screen was B&W and it had a hard drive that was around 5MB... I remember one of my friends laughing and asking what I was going to do with "all that storage capacity".
The pic of my first 'cell phone' was added for grins. 
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Posted on 03/09/18 2:34:31 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5527 Reply |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
Yes. I had a British made PC laptop from around the same time. I forget the make but it looked like it was made by an eastern european tank manufacturer. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 03/09/18 2:50:54 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5527 Reply |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
My very first laptop was a Toshiba T3100. It was mains powered only. No batteries. It had a very odd, orange gas plasma display. Weighing in at over 14lbs (6.5kilos) it was not so much portable as luggable. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 03/09/18 2:57:39 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3094 Reply |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
Actually I got my first 'computer' in college, it was called a slipstick. |
Posted on 03/09/18 3:12:15 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5527 Reply |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
Ah yes. We called them slide rules. I still have mine from schooldays. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 03/09/18 4:03:47 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3959 Reply  |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
Ahhh yes, but have you ever tried using Photoshop on one of these?  _________________ Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 03/09/18 5:36:02 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3094 Reply |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
Yes, and it works as well as a slide rule but it's really quite limited for color... 
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Posted on 03/09/18 5:43:48 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5527 Reply |
Re: Photo animator plug in for After Effects
For years I had exactly this style of Chinese abacus, which I put in a glass fronted case with a little hammer on a chain, hanging on the wall above my computer with a sign saying "Break Glass in Emergency". Such a poor joke doesn't deserve to survive too long and it's been long gone for many a year now.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
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