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THE NEXT COUPLE OF VIDEOS
WILL BE FOR THE STOP MOTION ANIMATION PROCESS.
THE ASSUMPTION IS THAT YOU TAKE YOUR IMAGES
OR TAKEN YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS WITH A CAMERA
OR YOU HAVE DRAWN SOME IMAGES
AND ARE--EITHER HAVE SCANNED THEM
OR GETTING READY TO SCAN THEM.
JUST A REMINDER THAT IF THEY'RE SMALL IMAGES,
'CAUSE WE'RE SHOOTING FOR ABOUT 11 INCHES WIDE
OR 800 PIXELS WIDE OR TALL,
SO IF YOU HAVE SMALL DRAWINGS, MAKE SURE YOU SCAN THEM
AT A MUCH HIGHER RESOLUTION THAN THAT, WHICH WE'LL BE USING.
WE'LL BE USING 72 PIXELS PER INCH,
SO YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TO WANT TO SCAN THEM
UP AROUND 300 PIXELS PER INCH.
ONCE YOU DO THAT, EITHER WAY, PUT YOUR FINISHED PHOTOS
OR SCANS IN A FOLDER
AND THEN WE'LL START WORKING ON THEM FROM THERE.
FIRST THING WE NEED TO DO IS FIND OUT HOW BIG THEY ARE,
ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A CAMERA.
WE'RE GOING TO--TO FIND OUT,
WE'RE GOING TO RIGHT CLICK ON A COUPLE OF THEM.
WE'LL DO MORE THAN ONE JUST TO MAKE SURE
THAT THEY'RE NOT MIXED SIZE, WHICH SHOULDN'T BE THE CASE.
BUT WE'RE GOING TO GO TO GET INFO
AND UNDER GET INFO WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE
THAT THE LITTLE BOX THAT SAYS, "MORE INFO," IS TWIRLED OPEN.
SO IF YOURS HAPPENS TO BE CLOSED UP LIKE THIS
JUST CLICK IT SO THAT IT OPENS
AND YOU CAN SEE THAT RIGHT NOW MY IMAGES ARE 930 X 620
AND THAT IS IN PIXELS SO THEY'RE TOO WIDE.
THE MAXIMUM IS 800 PIXELS, I'M GOING TO NEED TO FIX THAT.
BEFORE WE START EDITING THE IMAGES
IN CASE WE MIGHT NEED THEM FOR SOMETHING ELSE
OR IN CASE WE'VE MESSED THEM UP WE WANT TO MAKE A COPY.
SO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO
IS GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL FOLDER THAT WE HAVE
AND WE'RE GOING TO RIGHT CLICK ON IT
AND WE ARE GOING TO SELECT, "DUPLICATE."
AND THEN LET'S NAME IT SOMETHING
SO THAT WE REMEMBER WHAT WE WERE DOING.
FIRST THING I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU
IS HOW TO EDIT THESE IMAGES IN PREVIEW.
SO I'LL CALL THEM EDIT PRV FOR PREVIEW.
ALL RIGHT.
SO WE KNOW HOW BIG THEY ARE,
WE KNOW THAT WE NEED TO DO SOME WORK WITH THEM.
SO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IS SELECT EVERY IMAGE IN HERE
AND WE'RE GOING TO OPEN IT UP WITH PREVIEW.
AND TO DO THAT WE JUST CLICK ON ANY ONE OF THEM
AND THEN HIT THE COMMAND KEY AND THE "A" KEY TOGETHER.
THEY'RE ALL SELECTED
THEN WE RIGHT CLICK ON THAT MASS OF IMAGES
AND WE GO TO "OPEN WITH."
AND I THINK THIS IS JUST A GLITCH HERE
BECAUSE I'M RUNNING THE OTHER PROGRAM AT THE SAME TIME
THAT'S RECORDING MY VIDEO.
SO NORMALLY YOU WOULD SEE THE FIRST OPTION HERE
WOULD BE TO OPEN THEM WITH A DEFAULT OF PREVIEW
SO I MIGHT HAVE TO GO THE LONG WAY AROUND TO GET THERE.
AND I'M GOING TO PAUSE THIS. OKAY.
I NOW HAVE PREVIEW OPEN,
WHICH FOR YOU SHOULD'VE BEEN THE DEFAULT THERE.
I JUST HAD TO SELECT IT FROM THE APPLICATIONS
THAT SHOWED UP WHEN I SELECTED "OTHER."
THEN WHAT YOU DO
IS YOU ONCE AGAIN NEED TO SELECT ALL OF THE IMAGES.
NOW, THIS TIME INSIDE OF PREVIEW
YOU CAN SEE RIGHT NOW ONLY THE FIRST IMAGE IS SELECTED
BUT WE ARE GOING TO EDIT ALL OF THE IMAGES AT ONCE
SO I'M GOING TO SELECT ANY ONE IMAGE AND HIT COMMAND "A" AGAIN.
NOW THEY'RE ALL SELECTED.
NOW I'M GOING TO GO UP TO TOOLS
AND I'M GOING TO GO, "ADJUST SIZE,"
AND I'M GOING TO MAKE SURE THIS IS IN PIXELS.
BY DEFAULT IT MIGHT BE IN INCHES FOR YOU
SO MAKE SURE THAT YOU CHANGE THIS
USING THE DROPDOWN TO PIXELS.
AND YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBERS THAT WE CAME UP WITH BEFORE
BY GETTING THE INFORMATION ON THEM.
YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS LOCK IS LOCKED,
IN OTHER WORDS,
THAT SCALE PROPORTIONATELY HAS A CHECKMARK IN IT
AND THAT RESAMPLE IMAGE HAS A CHECKMARK.
YOU ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RESOLUTION IS AT 72.
SO IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING OTHER THAN 72,
GO AHEAD AND CHANGE THAT.
THEN WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IS LOOK AT THE WIDTH AND HEIGHT.
AND WHICHEVER ONE OF THOSE IS THE LARGEST NUMBER,
CHANGE THAT TO 800.
IN MY CASE IT'S THE WIDTH,
AND BECAUSE THIS OPTION HERE WAS SELECT SCALE
PROPORTIONATELY, THE HEIGHT CHANGED ALONG WITH THE WIDTH.
AND THEN IT'S JUST A MATTER OF CLICKING "OKAY"
AND IT CHANGED ALL OF THOSE IMAGES,
BUT IT HAS NOT SAVED THEM.
SO YOU NEED TO GO UP TO FILE AND SAVE ALL.
AND THIS MIGHT TAKE A COUPLE SECONDS FOR IT TO DO THIS.
AFTER IT SAVES ALL OF YOUR IMAGES AT THE NEWS EYES,
GO BACK TO YOUR--
EDIT THE IMAGES FROM AND JUST DOUBLE CHECK AND MAKE SURE
'CAUSE--MISTAKE IS FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE ONLY THE FIRST IMAGE
SELECTED AND THAT'S THE ONLY ONE IT CHANGES,
OR FORGET TO GO, FILE, SAVE ALL.
OKAY. THEN LET'S GO BACK TO THAT ORIGINAL.
I KEEP SAYING ORIGINAL,
BUT I MEAN THE ONE THAT WE CHANGED,
WHICH WAS UP HERE.
OKAY. AND THEN LET'S, THIS IS THE ONE THAT WE CHANGED.
I CHANGED THE NAME OF IT TO EDIT PREVIEW
AND LET'S JUST CHECK A COUPLE OF THESE.
SO WE'LL RIGHT CLICK, GO TO "GET INFO"
AND WE SEE THAT THEY'RE 800 X 533.
LET'S JUST RANDOMLY CHECK ANOTHER ONE,
GET INFO, 800 X 533.
SO THEY MUST HAVE ALL BEEN CHANGED, SO WE'RE GOOD ON THERE.
WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO AT THIS POINT JUMP INTO FLASH
AND GET THESE READY.
NOW, IF YOU NEED TO DO AN EDIT
LIKE A CROP OR SOMETHING ELSE IN PHOTOSHOP,
THEN KEEP PAYING ATTENTION HERE, KEEP WATCHING THE VIDEO.
OR IF YOU'RE JUST INTERESTED
IN HOW TO DO A LITTLE SOMETHING IN PHOTOSHOP,
PAY ATTENTION, OTHERWISE YOU CAN STOP HERE.
NOW, IN THIS CASE WE DON'T NEED TO MAKE
ANOTHER COPY OF THIS FOLDER.
WE ALWAYS COULD AND TRASH IT IF WE DIDN'T NEED IT.
BUT WHAT THE PROCESS, THE WAY IT WORKS IN PHOTOSHOP,
IS IT OPENS UP EVERY ONE OF THESE IMAGES,
BRINGS THEM INTO--
OKAY. SORRY. I WAS INTERRUPTED THERE.
SO, WHAT I WAS SAYING
IS PHOTOSHOP WILL STACK EVERY ONE OF THESE IMAGES UP
INSIDE OF THE PROGRAM INTO LAYERS
AND THEN USING AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES
IT'LL SAVE THEM ALL BACK OUT AS IMAGES
INTO, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE ANOTHER FOLDER FOR IT.
NOW, JUST TO SPEED THINGS UP A LITTLE BIT HERE,
BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO TAKE A LOT OF RESOURCES
TO DO THIS MANY IMAGES AT ONCE,
I'M JUST GOING TO DO, LIKE, THE LAST 30 OR SO.
SO I'M GOING TO GRAB THIS MANY OF THEM HERE
AND I'M GOING TO DELETE THOSE.
NOW WE JUST HAVE 35 THROUGH 60 SOME.
OKAY, SO WHAT WE DO IS WE LAUNCH PHOTOSHOP,
SO EITHER CLICK ON THE ICON
AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN FOR PHOTOSHOP,
GO UP TO THE TOP RIGHT HAND CORNER,
CLICK ON THE MAGNIFYING GLASS
AND FIND THE NEWEST VERSION OF PHOTOSHOP.
NOW, ONCE YOU HAVE IT OPENED,
WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO IS YOU ARE GOING TO GO TO FILE
AND THEN YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO SCRIPTS
AND THEN "LOAD FILES INTO STACK."
THEN A LITTLE PALETTE SHOULD OPEN UP HERE ANY SECOND
AND THEN FROM THERE WE NEED TO NAVIGATE
AND FIND THE FILES THAT WE WANT TO OPEN UP.
SO I'M GOING TO CLICK ON "BROWSE,"
AND THEN I'M GOING TO NAVIGATE TO THOSE FILES,
WHICH, LET'S SEE IF I CAN FIND IT QUICKLY HERE.
THEY'RE SOMEWHERE IN THIS FOLDER
AND THERE THEY ARE.
SO WHAT I NEED TO DO IS JUST CLICK ON THE FIRST ONE,
SCROLL DOWN, SHIFT CLICK ON THE LAST ONE
SO THAT I HAVE ALL OF THOSE IMAGES SELECTED.
THEN I'M GOING TO CLICK ON, OH, I THINK, "OPEN,"
AND THEN "OKAY."
AND IT'S GOING TO BRING ALL OF THE IMAGES HERE INTO PHOTOSHOP.
I'M GOING TO TRY TO PAUSE THIS WHILE IT DOES IT
BUT IT MAY TAKE A-- OKAY. GREAT.
THAT DIDN'T TAKE AS LONG AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD.
I'M GOING TO DRAG MY LAYERS PALETTE OVER HERE
SO YOU CAN--HAPPENED.
IT'S BROUGHT IN THOSE IMAGES THAT I'VE SELECTED,
WHICH BY THE WAY, THESE IMAGES
WERE JUST OF A BLACK PIECE OF PAPER
SITTING ON A LIGHT BOX
AND THEN I JUST PUNCHED A WHOLE IN IT EACH TIME
TO SHOW--TO REVEAL A WORD.
SO IF I TURN OFF THE EYEBALLS HERE
YOU START TO SEE THE LAYERS THAT ARE BELOW
AND YOU START TO SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF EACH,
YOU KNOW, OF THE WORD REVEALING ITSELF.
SO I'M GOING TO TOGGLE THESE BACK ON.
SO A VERY COMMON THING TO DO IN THIS CASE IN PHOTOSHOP
WOULD BE TO DO A CROP.
AND SO THE EXAMPLE WOULD BE,
LIKE, LET'S SAY IN THIS CASE I THINK THAT THE IMAGE
JUST HAS TOO MUCH NEGATIVE SPACE AT THE BOTTOM.
I DON'T, BUT LET'S JUST PRETEND THAT I THOUGHT IT DID.
SO WHAT I'M GOING TO DO IS CROP THE IMAGE
SO THAT IT HAS A LITTLE BIT LESS SPACE AT THE BOTTOM.
BUT WE KNOW THAT THE IMAGE IS TOO BIG
SO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IS,
FIRST OF ALL WE CAN VERIFY THAT IN PHOTOSHOP
JUST BY GOING, "IMAGE, IMAGE SIZE,"
AND WE SHOULD SEE THAT FAMILIAR SIZE OF 930 X 620.
SO WE'RE GOING TO KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE HERE,
WE'RE GOING TO CROP THE IMAGE AND CHANGE THE SIZE.
SO, WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO
IS WE'RE GOING TO SELECT THE CROP TOOL,
WHICH IS ABOUT THE FOURTH TOOL DOWN HERE,
AND THEN NOTICE THAT WHEN I HAVE THE CROP TOOL SELECTED
THE AMOUNT OF OPTIONS THAT I HAVE
OR THE OPTIONS THAT I HAVE CHANGE.
SO WHAT I WANT TO DO
IS I KNOW THAT MY IMAGE IS WIDER THAN IT IS TALL
SO I'M GOING TO GO UP HERE TO THE WIDTH OF THE CROP TOOL
AND I'M GOING TO TYPE IN 800 PX FOR PIXELS.
DON'T FORGET THE PX
BECAUSE IF IT'S INCHES THIS'LL TAKE FOREVER,
IT'LL TRY TO UPSCALE YOUR IMAGES SO THAT THEY'RE 800 INCHES WIDE,
WHICH COULD TAKE, LIKE, A COUPLE HOURS.
AND THEN THE HEIGHT I'M GOING TO LEAVE BLANK
BECAUSE I KNOW IF THE WIDTH IS THE WIDEST,
THEN THE HEIGHT IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE SMALLER THAN THAT
AND I'M GOING TO SET THE RESOLUTION TO 72.
SO IF IT WAS SET AT ANYTHING ELSE CHANGE IT TO 72.
NOW WE CAN GO AHEAD WITH THIS CROP TOOL
AND DRAG OUT THE CROP THAT WE WANT.
SO I'M GOING TO COME IN A LITTLE BIT ON THE TOP
AND ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT SIDES JUST A LITTLE BIT
AND A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THE BOTTOM.
AND ALL I'M DOING TO CHANGE THIS
IS JUST ROLL THE CURSOR OVER THESE THINGS
THAT LOOK LIKE LITTLE BOXES.
AND THEN ONCE I HAVE THE CROP SIZED THE WAY I WANT IT,
I'M GOING TO DOUBLE CLICK IN HERE
AND IT'S GOING TO CROP THIS ENTIRE FILE,
WHICH IS MADE UP OF A WHOLE BUNCH OF DIFFERENT LAYERS,
ONE IMAGE PER LAYER IN THIS CASE.
AND THEN LUCKILY WE DON'T HAVE TO SAVE IT OUT
ONE LAYER AT A TIME.
THERE'S AN AUTOMATED FEATURE FOR THAT
JUST LIKE THERE WAS TO BRING THEM IN.
AND TO GET TO THAT FEATURE WE AGAIN GO UP TO "FILE,"
JUST HAVE TO WAIT TILL THIS IS FINISHED,
BUT THERE'S OUR NEW CROPPED VERSION.
NOW WE GO TO "FILE,"
WE GO TO "AUTOMATE,"
NO, I'M SORRY, "SCRIPTS,"
AND WE GO TO "EXPORT LAYERS TO FILES."
SO, VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID TO START WITH,
BUT WE END UP ON "EXPORT LAYERS TO FILES."
WHEN WE CLICK THAT IT SHOULD OPEN UP A SUBPANEL HERE
THAT'S GOING TO ASK US FOR SOME CHOICES,
WHAT WE WANT TO NAME THEM AND SO ON,
AND WHERE WE WANT TO NAME THEM FIRST.
SO LET'S CLICK ON "BROWSE" TO GET TO WHERE WE WANT TO GO.
SO I HAD THAT FOLDER ON THE DESKTOP,
LET'S SEE IF MAYBE IT--UP FROM WHAT I WAS DOING BEFORE.
YEAH, HERE'S THE NAME OF THE FOLDER THAT IT WAS INSIDE.
AND I'M GOING TO CREATE A NEW FOLDER INSIDE OF HERE FOR THEM.
SO CLICK ON "NEW FOLDER" AND I'LL GIVE IT A SIMILAR NAME
TO WHAT WE HAD BEFORE, SO PRO1 PHOTOS,
BUT I'LL CALL THIS EDIT PS FOR EDIT IN PHOTOSHOP.
SO THEN I'LL HAVE THE ONES THAT I EDITED AND PREVIEWED,
THE ONES THAT I EDITED IN PHOTOSHOP.
SO I'LL CLICK, "CREATE," AND THEN I WILL CLICK, "OPEN,"
AND THEN I HAVE TO GIVE THEM A PREFIX.
SO I CAN JUST DO SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS IMG FOR IMAGE,
AND THEN FILE TYPE, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS A JPEG.
AND FOR THE JPEG OPTION
THE DEFAULT QUALITY EIGHT IS FINE FOR WEB RELATED THINGS.
AND THEN I'M GOING TO CLICK, "RUN."
AND WHAT IT'S GOING TO DO
IS IT'S GOING TO TAKE THE IMG, THE IMAGE,
AND IT'S GOING TO ADD A NUMBER AFTER EACH ONE,
SO WHEN IT PUTS THOSE IN THE FOLDER,
EACH ONE WILL SAY "IMG," THEN 01, 02, 03, ET CETERA.
SO, LET'S GO FIND THAT FOLDER ONCE ITS FINISHED.
OKAY.
AND HERE'S MY EDIT IN PHOTOSHOP, SO LET'S OPEN THAT UP.
IT'S NOT QUITE FINISHED YET.
OH, HERE'S ACTUALLY HOW IT SAVED THEM.
IT SAVED THEM AS IMAGE UNDERSCORE 001,
BUT IT ALSO PUT 36 AND 37 AFTER THEM.
SO THAT'S PROBABLY NOT GOING TO BE VERY FRIENDLY FOR US,
BUT LUCKILY IN ANOTHER VIDEO I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU
HOW TO RENAME FILES VERY QUICKLY, ONE FELL SWOOP.
SO, THAT'S IT.
RIGHT AT THIS POINT YOU WOULD HAVE YOUR IMAGES EDITED
USING EITHER THE PHOTOSHOP METHOD
OR USING THE PREVIEW APPLICATION INSIDE OF THE MAC. �