Help with floating image

[dave4500]

Hi,
New to PSP (2 weeks) and my wife would say I am obsessed with this program. I am having a lot of fun learning and you are all awesome.
This is what I am trying to do....I have a picture created with Photoshop CS2. The pic is made to have the edges curled and a shadow on the edge of it.
I am trying to get this pic to float in (like a falling leaf) and actually flip at one point as it floats in. I just don't quite have it. Any suggestions Please would be of great help.
Thanks
Dave

[gpsmikey Profile Private message]

Good news, bad news

The good news, if I understand what you want to do, it is
fairly easy if you understand the process.

The bad news is it involves "Key Frames" (see also "hair removal" )

If you have worked with keyframes before, you should be OK. You
double click the slide you want to work with and then select motion.
You can add keyframes across the keyframe timeline by double clicking
on the timeline where you want a keyframe. You then set the position
of the picture at each keyframe where you want it. The keyframe
timeline looks like this (the keyframes are numbered in my example
1,2 and 3 -- you can slide them around, delete them or add some):


As far as the "flip" portion, depending on what you mean by flip, it
is either easy (rotate 180 degrees for example) or a bit tougher.
If you mean flip front to back, you can almost do it by unlocking the
X and Y zoom (normally they are locked together with a "chain link")
If you unlock it, you can take either X or Y to 0 then back out again
and it looks like it flipped. I guess you could really get fancy and
use two pictures - 1 a mirror of the other,then do the pan X to 0
on 1 then pan from 0 to normal on the next one (two slides with a
0 time cut between them) if that makes sense.

If you are new to keyframes, the best suggestion is to grab yourself
a bottle of wine (or 3), look up some of the other posts in here on
keyframes as well as several tutorials by people like Vidqueen:
http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewsho ... alb=124704
(it is over 200 megs, but is quite helpful). Go through the past
posts, have some wine, go over the posts again - it will start to
make sense. Keyframes are very powerful and you can do almost
anything with them once you understand how they work (but
it can take quite a bit of wine )

mikey

[dave4500]

Thanks for your reply. Learning keyframes is a bit time consuming. I blame keyframes for getting to bed at 3 am the other night. The wine would have helped me that night.
I had already tried most of what you have suggested except using two pictures....great idea!
I will try that. I think that may be the answer to this.
Thanks for your reply.

Dave

[gpsmikey Profile Private message]

See if this is what you had in mind for the flip -- very simple example

http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewsho ... 6343&alb=0

mikey

[lostdutchman]

Good news, bad news :D

Keyframes are very powerful and you can do almost
anything with them once you understand how they work (but
it can take quite a bit of wine :D )

mikey

I'm a "newbie" to ProShow. I'm only in the fooling around stage, but already I can see that I'll have to dive in to keyframes. Love your advice about the wine.
lostdutchman