AKVIS Sketch Quicktime Transition

In this tutorial, we are going to use AKVIS Sketch with Photoshop (CS4+) to easily create a QuickTime movie that starts out with a sketch and transitions to a full-color photo!
Materials needed:

• Photoshop CS4+;
• AKVIS Sketch (This tutorial assumes you have installed as a plug-in);
• QuickTime plug-in;
• A model photo.

 

Original

 

 Result

Step 1. Start with a model photo.

Step 2. With that layer active, press Ctrl + J (Windows) to quickly make a duplicate. Name the duplicate layer “Sketch.”

Step 3. With the “Sketch” layer still active, go to Filter -> AKVIS -> Sketch.

Call AKVIS Sketch plug-in

Step 4. You will now be taken to the AKVIS Sketch interface. Use the handy presets drop-down to select some nice pre-configured settings. Don’t be afraid to fine-tune the settings. I chose AKVIS Default.

AKVIS Sketch window

Step 5. Click the After tab. Aftera few moments of rendering, you will see how the image will look after the current settings are applied. If you are satisfied, click OK Sign, If not, continue to tweak the settings.

Processed image

Step 6. You will now be back in Photoshop, and the AKVIS Sketch filter will be applied to the “Sketch” layer.

Step 7. Let’s open up the Animation panel. Go to Window -> Animation.

Open up Animation panel

Step 8. If the Animation is in Timeline mode, open up the panel menu and choose Convert to Frame Animation. You will see one frame, and the thumbnail should reflect the active “Sketch” layer.

Panel menu

Step 9. You will see a time delay setting below the frame. Make sure that is set to 0.1 sec. Also, on the bottom left of the Animation panel, the Loop setting should be set to Once.

Frame settings

Step 10. Click Duplicate Selected Frame to make your second frame. Toggle off the visibility icon to the left of the “Sketch” layer in the Layers panel. The second frame in the Animations panel should now reflect the original photo layer.

Duplicate Selected Frame

Step 11. With the second frame still selected, click the Tween icon at the bottom of the Animation panel.

Tween icon

Step 12. A window will appear. Make sure to Tween With: Previous Frame. Set the Frames to Add: 10.

Tweening

Step 13. You will see that 10 frames will be added in between the two initial frames, for a total of 12 frames.

Step 14. Go to File -> Export -> Render Video.

 

Export

Step 15. Name your video, choose your save destination, leave the settings to default (unless you are an expert), and click Render.

Render video

Step 16. You will now have a QuickTime movie that shows your AKVIS Sketch blooming to full photographic beauty!

Final Result

 The author of this tutorial is Andre Villanueva.

Invite Rain

Invite Rain:
This Tutorial will show you how to add realistic rain to your photo. you will do that using Photoshop And ImagReady.



STEP 1 :
Open an image and create a new layer and place the new layer over the image layer in the layer palette .choose paint bucket tool and fill the new layer with black.
choose filter>> noise >> add noise and adjust settings as follow.



choose filters >> blur >> motion blur and adjust settings as the following:



STEP 2:
create anew layer and place it over the other layers in the layer palette and fill it with black as we do before in the other layer.
Also Apply the add noise filter but increase the amount to "61" instead of "60" and then apply the motion blur filter with the same previous settings.

try this step 2 times but when u apply the noise filter you must increase "1" to the amount (i.e. the 3rd layer "62" and the 4th "63".

Now change the mode of all 4 layers to screen and then change the fill of all layers to 60.

you should see you project like this image:




STEP 3:
select file >> Edit in ImageReady .
in the imageready show the animation palette and layers palette if they are invisible:
To do that :
choose Window >> Timeline
Window >> Layers.

in the animation window at the first frame go to the layer palette and make all layers invisible except the basic image layer and one layer.



After that create a new frame in the timeline. by clicking the "Duplicate current frame" button which is surrounded by a circle in the following image:



Select the new frame and go to the layer palette and hide the already visible layer and make another one visible. as you see in this image.

Repeat this process until you have 4 frames each one contains the basic image layer with only one rain layer.

After that set the time of the frames to 0.1 second



Select file >> Save optimized as .

This is the Final result: