Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:21 am
BarbaraC wrote:I did a four-slide test using the same two photos in each of the four but using a different version of a simple oval shape as a mask in each:
(1) Black oval on white background
(2) Black oval on transparent background
(3) Transparent oval on black background
(4) Transparent oval on white background
The results were identical for 1, 3, and 4. Not a hair of difference. The only one that was different--and expectedly so--was number 2, which showed an exact reversal of the others.
This has led me to conclude that black and transparency are equivalents, but oddly enough, when combined with a transparent portion, it doesn't matter whether you use white or black. If this isn't confusing, I don't know what is.
Barbara
Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:29 am
Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:33 am
So you're on your own right now! Stick to black and transparent (2) and things will be peachy.
Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:15 pm
Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:32 pm
rkligman wrote:srq102 wrote:Hi,
I appreciate your sharing the tutorials. I need all the help I can get. Based on the comments you are getting they must be wonderful tutorials.
Sorry to say I have been unable to view any of them yet. I have enabled java and downloaded the camtasia player but no luck yet. Can you advise me on what I am doing wrong?
Also Is there away to download the tutorials with out having them load from your web site?
Thanks,
Rick G
I loaded up IE7 and I needed to download the Flash Player first of all since it's a test machine and all it had on it was IE7. Once I did that, not only did my front page Flash Slideshow play (different software) but so did the Tutorial. That's the good news. The bad news is that IE7 royally messes up the layout of the site and that may be your problem. All of the content is actually at the bottom of the page rather than near the top of the page. Scroll completely down any of the pages to see the content. I'm using CSS to format the site and I assumed what worked in IE6 would also in IE7 but guess not, arrgghhh.
Tell me that the scrolling was the problem and then all I need to fix is the formatting for IE7. If it's not at the bottom of the page, if you could PM me with a couple of screenshots of what your seeing then we'll see what the issue might be. All I have is a straight IE7 default install so nothing needed to be set which is good news also.
Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:07 pm
As for getting hard copies of the tutorials, I have to think about how I'm going to distribute them
Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:20 pm
BarbaraC wrote:So you're on your own right now! Stick to black and transparent (2) and things will be peachy.
What we need is for someone who truly understands masks to jump in here and explain something...anything at all will do.
Barbara
Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:56 pm
Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:46 am
But don't think about the end result, just understand the rules above and the output will make total sense.
Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:45 am
BarbaraC wrote:Yes, relentless. I think I mentioned somewhere that my high-school geometry teacher dropped dead in the middle of the school year, and I was sure he did it just to get away from me.But don't think about the end result, just understand the rules above and the output will make total sense.
I'm still waiting for the sense part, the kind that's surely somewhere inside this brain of mine.
--Barbara
Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:49 am
Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:20 pm
Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:22 am
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Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:13 am
BarbaraC wrote:Rick, once again I'm doing battle with masks, absolutely determined to gain some control over them, and after achieving some success, the goal being to create the affect of moving or exanding spotlights across a scene, I went back to your first tutorial just to make sure there wasn't a better way to do what I was doing. I ended up stunned when you remarked that three layers were a must. I'm using just two: the mask and the underlying layer. Now I'm once again confused. Can you explain why you need three layers and I need only two?
Barbara