filmstrip technique

[mom to 4]

I have a question. Is filmstrip technique which shows a long strip with photos inserted one long strip or is it one frame per layer then merged and twisted? I have one frame of a filmstrip saved as a template, but I love the way the multiple ones look. Can some one tell me how that is done? I hope I have explained myself well.

Thanks!
Colleen

[Vesta]

Good Morning,

Gee, I hope I am pointing you the right direction, I believe I saw on the film strip video tut about connecting them for a long strip. Might have been the #2 tut on it.

Vesta

[mom to 4]

Is that in the subscriber section. I have not become a subscriber..... yet..... I figured I would wait until they have the access problems worked out. I been seeing posting that people can't get on. I am, in many ways, tech challenged, so I figured I would wait a bit. Do you know if they've worked those issues out??

Colleen

[Wendy]

Hi there ...

... and welcome to the forum :)

I'm not sure if you are a subscriber yet or not but there is a three part tutorial in the subscriber area on this and the last part has a custom shape download. The download includes a simgle one, three in a strip and then six in a strip.

If you are not a subscriber then duplicate the one you have and just join them together.

Wendy

[Wendy]

Hi Colleen ...

Guess I was typing whilst you were ... all the problems with access to the subscriber area are now sorted out (it was existing members that had problems ... I don't think that new ones were afffected)

It really is worth subscribing ... you get a newsletter 8 times per year (its more of a magazine really) and you get access to the susbcriber area. There are over 90 Video tutorial in there at the moment and they tend to add new ones nearly every week so its excellent value for money ..

Its just great !!

Wendy

[mom to 4]

Wendy:

I am just amazed at all I have learned here on this site in the last 3 days on it!! I had clicked on the trial issue, but I think as soon as I get back from having breakfast with my good friend, I will subscribed. I have really enjoyed playing with my PSE4 since Christmas. I had PSE 2 earlier and never, EVER thought I could do all this stuff with it!

It seems to me you are an expert on it! I have been extremely impressed by what you have done!

Thanks for the info!

Colleen

[Wendy]

Hi Colleen ...

You really won't regret subscribing .... so much in there to help you learn :)

Wendy

[mom to 4]

Wendy:

OK, I am now a subscriber! I thought I had changed my user name when I did, because I meant to do this one differently anyway, but I guess I will be Mom to 4 on the forum still.

Thanks! I have a feeling there will not be enough hours in the day to do all I want to with this! ..................... as if there were before!!

Thanks again for you help!
Colleen

[mom to 4]

Do they change the tutorials there often? I don't see anything for the film strip technique, just the slide mounts. Is it possible that it will show up again????

Colleen

[Wendy]

Hi Colleen ...

You need to look under Video ... thats where most of the tutorials are (I know its a little confusing).

So click on Subscriber area (at the top of this page)
then click on Video over on the left hand side
now scroll way down :eek:
the Film Strip part one is dated 1 st July 2005

Enjoy that and all the others :)

Wendy

[mom to 4]

Thanks Wendy! I found it. Wow! There are tons there! I was looking under the tutorials! That is amazing. I can see already I have gotten my monies worth!

Colleen

[Wendy]

Hi Colleen ...

I wish I could have seen the expression on your face when you saw all those Video tutorials :eek:

Should keep you occupied for a long time :)

Wendy

[mom to 4]

Wendy

Oh Yeah!!!! Not enough years left in my lifetime! I may never quilt again!!!!

Colleen

[Wendy]

hi Colleen ...

It was much easier for me as I joined when the site first started ... so I was able to watch the Video tutorials each week as they were released. :)


Wendy

[mom to 4]

Wendy:

Watched the three videos on the film strip technique. I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED the fact that he had a download of the filmstrip. I am doing 12 x 18 collages for my daughters HS basketball team and I am going to see how it looks with a filmstrip over the top with some consecutive actions shots. I think it should turn out really nice. Nice is probably the wrong word. It should look really COOL! I have really enjoyed making collages, but I haven't attempted anything as fancy as I have seen on this site. I usually have the photos blend into each other. I have only tapped the surface of what PSE4 has to offer! This should be a fun ride!!

Colleen

[Wendy]

Hi Colleen ...

When the tutorial came out we all had fun playing with it ... here is a link to the original thread:

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1640

and here is a mini tut I did on how to use the Shear Filter to bend the film strip

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2682

If you take a look in my Gallery you will see a film strip with a bend in it :)

Wendy

[mom to 4]

Good morning Wendy!

I downloaded the filmstrip(which I didn't think I would be able to do because I can be tech. challenged from time to time!). I spent about 2 hours last night merging two filmstrips together and inserting 6 pictures into it, putting a background pic in and then adding text. I love it! What fun! Although the pics in the filmstrip look a little pixilated (sp), I think I get the hang of the film strip. I think it will just require more time to conquer it! I do like the look of the brownish filmstrips, I will have to see if I can do that too. I think that should be somewhat simple though.....

Colleen

[Wendy]

Hi Colleen ...

The first time you do it then it seems to take ages to do ... but next time you really will find it much quicker :)

For the filmstrip colour I used 4d2bo3 and the writing colour was E48719

Wendy

[mom to 4]

Wendy:

Oh, no, I am in trouble! I can see me speding all day today playing with PSE!

Colleen PS:Thanks for the colors!

[Pauline]

Hello Colleen and welcome. It appears we have another addict on our hands. :D All those videos should keep you occupied for quite a while. There is a lot of terrific stuff on this site.

[mom to 4]

Hi Pauline!

Yep, I am now addicted! I started taking pictures as a kid using my sisters Brownie. Hated popping the flash bulb into my hands....Got my first camera ....a Kodak Instamatic, with that great flash cube, as a teenager. My husband bought me a nice 35mm about 20 yrs ago and then my point and shoot Olympus D-550 Zoom about oh, 3 or 4 years ago. I got PSE 2 about 2 years ago, but never got too involved. Never scratched the surface! Got PSE4 for Christmas (bought it for my mother to give to me hehehehe) and have been just amazed at what it can do! I love it! I have run into people at Costco picking up pictures who told me to try things when I asked "how'd you do that?" I have a big mouth.....always talking....ask my family! So, now I am really hooked, but I need a new set of glasses for looking at the computer screen.....my neck is killing me from tilting my head back!!!!!!

Look forward to "talking" to you!

Colleen

[Willow]

I love the strip you did................
I think I will challange myself to do one this weekend and post it
in my gallery.
di:p

[mom to 4]

Wendy....HELP!!!!!

Ok I made by brown filmstrip. Saved it. Now want to go in and copy it and it wont let me. I go in and it has the move's bounding boxes around it and I can't ctrl-C it, and the copy/paste and everything else is grayed out......what am I doing wrong?? I think it has to be a simple thing that I am just missing!

Thanks!
Colleen

[mom to 4]

Wendy:

One more question ....... what did you do to get the background that color? I really like those brown shades!

Thanks for ALL your help
Colleen

[Wendy]

Hi Colleen ..

Click onto another tool (say the lasso) ...

Now click on the film strip layer and you should be able to copy it OK :)

The background is done using Hue & Saturation ... take a look at the Film strip Video (No 3) and Matt shows you how to do it ... I varied it slightly by adjusting the Hue slider and not desaturating as much as Matt did :)

Wendy

[Jan Ruthig]

Hi Colleen,
Your excitement is contagious! Isn't it amazing what you can do with PSE?? :) Take a look at the Tutorial Slide Mount in the Subscriber area. I love that one too! It is just amazing how realistic the slides and the film strips look!

[mom to 4]

Jan:

I have been having so much fun since I found this site that I have done NOTHING around my house and with 3 teenagers in it you can imagine what it now looks like! Plus, I really need to get the stuff together to do our taxes (UGH! I hate this time of year....always say I'm going to get it done in Feb., and I never do!)

I did one film strip last night, and I was playing with them all morning! I am going to use it on a collage for the Seniors on my daughters basketball team. I have been taking pictures all season! They're still going strong....in the state playoffs with a record of 30 wins no losses, so I have lots of pictures but my current camera doesn't have a sports setting, so some are garbage.

I am having too much fun!

Colleen

[Jan Ruthig]

Colleen,
Congratulations to your dtr and her team!

There is another whole thread talking about not getting anything done around the house and needing a maid :D