Description:

• Create a beautiful water reflet using PhotoImpact, Gif Animator and Reflet.
  Add a frame and several objects to enhance your image.

Skill Level:

• Intermediate/Advanced. I assume you have a good working knowledge of PhotoImpact and Gif Animator. There are not many screen shots and the instructions are minimal.

Additional Files:

• an image, I used one of my paintings. Please download it here.
• You will also need a little program called: Reflet. It is in French. Please download it from here:
  Reflet 2.5. Click English. Then click Downloads on the left navigation bar and scroll half down the page.
• Pebbles stamp. Please download from here.

Make a new folder on your desktop and call it Water Reflet. Put all your files in the Water Reflet folder on your desktop. We will save to this folder when we finish each part of this tutorial.

Author: ©

• Wouter's Designs 2005

Terms of Use: Please read here

NOTE:

• Save your work often. I suggest you read the entire tutorial, before you start. And if you need help, or if you have any suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact me at
  
  wouter@demoet.nl

Open the image and make a rectangular selection around the top part of the image, just above the horizon line.



Press Control+R to crop. Save as 1.jpg to your desktop folder. Minimize PI. Open the Water Reflet folder on your desktop open the reflet folder and click on the Reflet file, click yes to run.



Click the Yellow Folder on the left top part of the program and browse to your 1.jpg and open it. Use these settings:



Images: 5 Hauteur (height)%:50% Perspective ticked. Click the Options button and click: Animation. Click Options: Vitesse: Lente. (Speed: Slow). Click Options once more: Type de vague -(type of waves): Court (short). Click on Fichier (File): Exporter (Export). A new box will open, please use these settings.



Animated gif - only the reflet - 256 colors and click OK. Click No in the next box as we don't want to save the animation as a webpage and save as 1.gif to the folder on your desktop. You may close the Reflet program.

Open your Gif Animator, browse to your desktop folder and open the 1.gif we just made. File save as: UFO, save as 1.ufo to your desktop folder. Close Gif Animator.

Maximize your PI and open the 1.ufo file. You should have 2 files open at this stage. The cropped top part of the painting and the 1.ufo containing 5 layers. (your reflet). Activate the top part image, press Shift+N to expand your canvas. Expand the bottom of your canvas with as much pixels as the height of your reflet objects. My reflet is 137 pixels high. Yours may be different, depending how much you cropped your painting in the first step of this tutorial.



Make your reflet (1 ufo) active, in your Layer Manager select the bottom layer (not the base image) with the name Obj -1. Copy. Make your top image active and: Paste. Right click: Align - Bottom. In your Layer Manager rename this layer as Frame 1.

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