Composition Active Space

Active Space

When you’re render or capture a picture of a moving subject, you’ll normally find your most successful shots come when you leave space in the frame for your subject to ‘move into’. This area can be called ‘active space’, as it’s where your subject’s actively moving into.

The space behind a moving subject is generally dead space which is why many images tend to lose their dynamism if there’s proportionally more of it. Even artistic motion-blurred shots work best when there’s some room for your creation to escape into..

Where’s your subject looking?

The idea of ‘active space’ can also be applied to stationary subjects and the direction in which they’re looking. If your subject’s on the right of the frame looking left, give them more space to look into on the left of the frame, and vice versa. But if you want to create a sense of mystery or place emphasis on your subject’s environment, experiment with putting them closer to the edge of the frame they’re looking towards.

Even the direction your subject is looking or moving towards can make a subtle difference to your picture’s message. Images where the movement is from left to right will feel as if they ‘flow’ more smoothly.

If you want to provide a more arresting viewing experience, try capturing action moving from the right of the frame to the left.

Free Style Painting

This tutorial utilise the History Brush to turn any picture or photo into an free style painting.

Step One

To start off, open an image you want to turn into an “artistic” piece of art.

Step Two

First thing you need to do is create a new layer, so simply go to Layer>New->Layer. Click OK on the dialog box and you should have a new layer.

Set your foreground color to white (press D to reset the color palletes, then press X to set foreground to white)

Now use the Paint Bucket tool or Ctrl + Backspace to fill the new layer with white.

Step Three

Now open your “History” pallete. If its not open, go to Windows ->History

If you followed the tutorial correctly, you should now have the same history as mine.

Step Four

Next, click on the empty box to the left of the “Open” item on the history pallete to mark the history brush.

Then in the Toolbox, select and hold down the History Brush, then select “Art History Brush”.

Step Five

At the top you will see a toolbar for the history brush. This is where you can set different variables for the brush, so select the brush size and style you want to use (experiment is the key here).

Six Step

Then simply use the brush and paint on top of the white layer. You will see that the brush will start painting the image of the original layer, in an artistic style.

Final Step

After you’ve painted the whole image, go to Filter->Sharpen->Unsharp Mask, and enter the following settings: Amount: 00%, Radius: 1px, Threshold: 0

An effect that is getting more and more popularity eash day is the reticulum background in texts, turning in a good and different way to call attentionto any subject.

Three easy Steps to...

Reticulum Effect

1) Open your image and ctrl click on the image for selection. Expand your selection 10 pixels by using the menu Select > Modify > Expand. ) Activate the Quick Mask mode by pressing “ Q “ key and apply Filter > Pixelate > Color Halftone. Repeat this filter -3 times on the image according to requirement by pressing key Ctrl + F. Deactivate the Quick mask mode by pressing the “Q” key again. 3) Create a new layer using the layers palette and apply a black color in the selection. Let’s built black contour around the image by Ctrl click on the name for selection and expand selection 5 pixels. Fill the selection with black color.

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Shatter

Old Film Look !!!

Source Animation: Jamba

Film scratches come in two shades; black or white. Black scratches are created during the shoot (perhaps by a dirty gate) and appear on the negative as white lines. When the positive print is made (the one you see in the theatre), the white becomes black. White scratches are created on the print of the film after it has been run through too many dirty projectors and the emulsion is scratched off.

Step 1: Create a New Composition and Import your video clip. Place the clip in your Timeline

Step 2: Create a New Solid (Control+Y). Make the solid the same size as the composition. Name the layer scratches.

Step 3: To the Scratches layer, apply the Fractal Noise effect and choose following settings.

Step 4: Decreasing the amount of noise is done by changing the Contrast and Brightness settings. Increasing the Contrast value to 250 and lowering the Brightness value to -100 is a great place to start.

If you want to increase the number of scratches, begin by increasing the Brightness value. To make some scratches more pronounced than others, increase the Contrast value.

Step 5: For moving the scratches, Create an initial keyframe for Offset Turbulence by clicking on the Stopwatch icon. Move to the end of the Timeline by pressing the End key on your keyboard. Change the Offset Turbulence Y-axis value to a really large negative number (like -10000). The reason we are using a negative number is so the scratches move from the bottom of the screen to the top.

Step 6: When you are satisfied with your scratches, change the Transfer Mode of the Scratches layer to Add.

Now that we have completed the scratches for our old film, let’s create some crud. The crud build up I am talking about usually comes from improper storage of the film. This can lead to stains, mildew, mold and the like to damage the film.

Step 7: Create a New Layer. Make this layer the same size as your composition, change the color to black. Apply the Fractal Noise effect to this layer. Change the Contrast value to 350 and lower the Brightness value to -100. Reduce the opacity to 50% (according to footage).

Step 8: With the Timeline Indicator at the beginning of the Timeline, create an initial keyframe for the Evolution control in the Effect Controls Panel. Move the Timeline Indicator to the end of the Timeline and crank the Evolution amount to a high number. In this example I used a value of 000 rotations and change the Transfer Mode to Silhouette Luma.

Step 9: To create a Sepia look for your movie, create an Adjustment layer, and place it just above your video layer in the Timeline. To the Adjustment layer, apply the Tint effect. Change the Map White To color to the Sepia tone of your choice.

Final Step: Make the solid the same size as the composition, change the color to black. You will need to apply a round mask to the layer. An easy way to do this is to change the Mask Tool to an Oval and then double click on the tool icon. This will create an oval mask the size of the layer. Invert the mask and change the Feather Amount to 00. If you want to go for even greater realism, create another Adjustment layer in your Timeline and adjust the Brightness/Contrast of the video layer over time.

In March, your mission was to create a image on “Home and Fire” theme. Here is the winning image... ...........................................................................................................................

Name: Marco Antonio Delgado Mayordomo (with prizes) Country: Madrid, Spain Email: webmaster@pixeltale.com Software Used: Softimage XSI Website: www.pixeltale.com CGArena Id: madelgado

Making of Home and Fire Scene: READ HERE