Photos in Perpestive

[slidesplus Profile Private message]

Is there a way to distort a photo in producer so that it displays from the side in perspective? Can it then be adjusted so it looks as if it's turning?

[im42n8 Profile Private messageWebsite]

The answer is no at this time. There is a request in to Photodex to let all 4 corners move freely to distort the image.

That said you can do a little thing to give an impression perspective. In this case, you're going to create a graphic that you'll use as a perspective frame and one as the mask. You will create a rectangle in the graphic editor. Remove the center portion to create a frame. Next, distort it such that one side is somewhat shorter than the other (sort of like a frame that has perspective.). Also save this perspective frame without hole in it. The steps outlined are only what you need to do, not the order in which to accomplish the task. That will depend on the editor you use.

Import these into Producer and add your image. Put the graphic with the hole in it as the top layer (it's the perspective frame). The solid graphic is in layer 2 and is used to mask the image. These two graphics must positioned in exactly the same location and zoomed to exactly the same size.

Not perfect but it'll work to some extent to fool the eyes into thinking there's perspective to the image as well.

Hope that helps some.

Dale

[Jim Adams Profile Private message]

Photodex has four transitions (Flip - Perspective) in 4.5 that do exactly what Dale speaks about. You have no control over skew angle or anything else, however.

When I first saw this my eyes opened wide as I thought they finally gave us true perspective. But if you drag the timeline slowly you can see what is going on. The photo is being cropped within a non-rectangular mask.

It still looks better than just reducing/increasing the x,y coordinates.

A carefully chosen photo that does not have identifying detail in the cropped sections could probably fool all but the most discernable eyes.

Jim