Quick question about placing one photo...

Hi,

Just a quick question on technique.?I cut out a picture of two woman from a office background.?I then wanted to put a scene of Times Square behind them.?When I did, it just does not look quite right.?That is, the woman do not look like they are in the background scene, rather they look too sharp.?I will put a picture up there..

Please understand, I just worked on this for a few minutes and have to leave for a little while.?So while I was gone, I thought I would get some save advise.

Thanks as always to this great forum and all the pros,

Bob

Quick question about placing one photo...

For a reasonable quick fix you can just use the Blur tool on the sharp border round the girls or you can take the original selection of the girls before putting them in Times Square and feather it a little.

Quick question about placing one photo...

also try using Image-%26gt;Adjustments-%26gt;Match Color to get the colors of the two layers to blend better together

I'd use the eraser tool to touch up the edges better, they're a little rough.

thanks guys... apprediate the quick response

In addition to the above, the biggest problem here is that the light doesn't match, even as a ''simulated'' fill-flash long-exposure shot.

The girls appear pale and washed out against the rich, deeply saturated background. Pull down the deep shadows a little with a curves adjustment layer. This will also boost saturation a little.

Maybe that's what Zeno meant.

yep, that's what i meant. Though it's dialog box is a bit funky, Match Color does just that pretty well.

I tried that old Lighting Effects filter. It did pretty well!?

Viewing 3D on a Hyundai monitor in 3D

Now, that there are cheap 3D-Displays (Hyundai 22'' 600閳?, I would like to create my Director films so that they can be viewed in 3D. I could make the display oscillate between 2 frames, displaying left and right eye view, but this seems akward, mostly since my films usually wait for user interaction. Also, I cannot see how I could attribute different polarization directions out from Director. Is there any solution for this idea ?

Improving resize effect performance?

Hi.

I have a component where i put a canvas, with some textinputs inside and a big datagrid that has all top, left, right and bottom constraits. The thing is that i'm doing a resize effect for the canvas and i get a very very choppy animation...

I tried setting all the components inside the canvas to visible = false, and this gained some speed, but even this way is not fluid. I think i'm missing something, as animating only the canvas without any datagrid inside delivers a good animation.

So resuming: I have a canvas with lots of components inside, and mainly a big datagrid. I do a resize effect and hide all the components before starting the animation, making them visible after it's complete. i set the suspendbackgroundprocessing = true for the effect, but still i'm getting a very bad animation framerate.

Is setting the components to visible = false enought, or may i set another properties that afect display / resizing operations?

Is there any way to improve the perceived speed?

i have no more ideas...

Improving resize effect performance?

Solved it.

the autolayout property of a canvas must be set to false while resizing it, so the datagrid and other constrained components do not resize and the animation gets really smooth.

Linking to excel tables on multiple...

I have an excel workbook with 40 worksheets in it. Each worksheet contains a different table. Bringing the tables into indesign (linked to excel) is no problem.

My problem occurs when I change any worksheet in Excel all of the tabels in Indesign show the changed file icon in the links panel. When I update the links all of the tables get changed even though I had only changed 1 table in Excel. Has anyone seen this before? Any work arounds?

Thanks,
Phil

Linking to excel tables on multiple...

You're linked to one file. That one file has changed thus you're told it's out of date.

The only ''workaround'' is to use individual files instead of one file with multiple worksheets.

Bob

Linking to excel tables on multiple...

Thanks for taking a look.

I was hoping that wasn't going to be the answer.

My catalog project contains 149 data and 149 price tables. So 300 excel files instead of the current 8 isn't going to fly.

I am far enough along in the time line that I just need to get it done. I will need to look in to more automated options for next time.

Phil

hi Phil,

I am far enough along in the time line that I just need to get it done. I will need to look in to more automated options for next time.

Premiere Pro CS4 Big Problem

When I open Adobe Premiere PRO CS4 (with all updates) I can't click on ''New Project'', ''Open Project'', ''Help''... When I click any of them it just blinks, if I clicked it anywhere else. I'm also on Windows XP SP3 / 32bit version. Please help me guys!

Premiere Pro CS4 Big Problem

Some suggestions

Premiere Pro CS4 Big Problem

Thanks for the reply, but I've tried some different things, and nothing works for me. Reinstall suite, reinstall OS %26amp; drivers...

Something more concrete? There are so many suggestions, I would take a long time, in case someone has encountered this problem ..

Did you bother to run Adobe's cleanup script before the reinstall?

Yes, I run the script before reinstalling.

Problem solved! Thanks for all your replies.

Whenever in the future someone sees this post, he will wonder what happened why and when in what circumstances, in fact it is one BIG Mystery.

Harm,

According the checked answer and the post to which you replied, running the clean script fixed the problem.

-Jeff

I have to agree with Harm.?I didn't read it that way, Jeff.?It reads as if the OP ran the script and did the reinstall before Bill suggested it, and that still didn't work.

The way I read the OP's final post is that something else worked, but we don't know what.?Now maybe that's wrong, but that's how it reads to me.

sum of sprites within sprite

Beginner here.?Trying to write a handler to sum the number of sprites from one cast member located within the boundary of another sprite.?Thanks.

sum of sprites within sprite

I would do it with some sort of callout system.?There would be a global variable, let's call it gTotal, that stores the actual count of the sprites within the other one.?Make a #movie script like this:

global gTotal

on getNumWithin vSpriteNum
?iRect=sprite(vSpriteNum).rect
?gTotal=0
?sendAllSprites(#AreYouWithin,iRect)
end

Then, put the following behaviour onto the sprites that are moveable (i.e. the ones that might be within the bounds of the other sprite)

global gTotal

on AreYouWithin me,vRect
?if sprite(me.spriteNum).rect.union(vRect)=vRect then
?gTotal=gTotal+1
?end if
end

Now, all you need to do is use the command:

getNumWithin(spriteNameOrNum)

and check the value of gTotal.?So basically, if you are checking to see how many sprites are within the bounds of the sprite in channel 10, you would call:

getNumWithin(10)

put gTotal

and gTotal would have the correct number of sprites.?If you name your sprites (Director 10 and above), you can use the sprite name instead of the sprite number.

sum of sprites within sprite

Mike - sorry for being an idiot.?I get the following script error message -

four parameters expected

iRect=sprite(vSpriteNum).rect

Maybe a little more explanation would help:

I have a bitmap circle called ''nucleus''

I have bitmap small circles called ''protons'' that I put into ''nucleus'' and want a count of.

I'm sure I'm messing up somewhere but have been at it for a while and don't see where I'm going wrong.

Thanks.

eye makeup

Asking for patience

I have several time-consuming reports to generate; unfortunately, my users are impatient and think that the report they request is not working, because they take a longer.

I have seen on other websites some indication, like a spinning hand in a clock or a bar showing progress or just words explaining that the report is being run; I have tried to have a message on the page, but when the request is submitted the page doesn't come up until the report is finished.

Is there some way I can interpose a page that will be on the screen so that I can let my users know that the report is being generated?