Lazy Afternoon

[garystan]

          Hi everybody :

                        Keep up the posts.  Let TFP see your latest "ventures".   
                       
                                                                                         garystan

[Allan Chesney]

Hi Garystan,

Looks good!!  Very effective and realistic lighting and nice use of different images in the background and picture frames etc. The only thing missing, for a "lazy afternoon", is the reader!

Now a challenge for you in using imported Images: Try introducing the reader into the scene.
Hint (if you need it): Browse the internet for images of a reader, choose one with a pose that suits your scene, cut them out digitally from their original scene in a photo-editing program, make the new image background Magenta in colour (Red/green/blue 255/0/255), save as a BMP and import as a photoboard.

As you probably know, Magenta becomes transparent in TFP so your ' reader ' can be positioned on the lounge and become part of the scene. Sometimes you can find images of people on a white background designed for this type of application. You can just select the white part of the image and change it to Magenta. Crop it closely around the person before importing it and do not resize the image after you have applied the Magenta. It must be saved as a BMP not JPG as JPG will not keep the Magenta colour true across the whole area and you end up with a pink cringe around the person.

If you have not done this sort of thing with images it may be a bit of a challenge, but I know you like challenges!   

Most of the people in the image below were done like this (a few were TFP people)

Allan

[garystan]

   Allan Chesney :

                             I've thought, at different times, importing a person into my projects.  It's something that I need to learn.   That WOULD add more realism to the project. Thanks.
                                                                                                              garystan
                                                                                 

[Allan Chesney]

Hi Garystan,

Give it a go - if you get stuck or need more details just ask. As you said it does add more realism.

Allan