Cover Story
by Charlene Brown
he cover illustration is a full screen shot of Photoshop at work, 'squaring up' one of a sequence of photos of a work-in-progress that I took for the production of a stop-motion animated film, Painting Toronto. If I'd taken each the pictures properly, from the same distance with a steady centred camera, this Photoshopping would not have been necessary. However, as pictures were taken from slightly varying angles and distances, each of them had to be uniformly sized, then distorted to remove the differing effects of perspective.
Each of the photos of the painting in progress (the photo in this example was taken about three quarters of the way through the painting process) was scaled to 11 inches by 7.5 inches at a resolution of 72 ppi. The first 'active screen only' screen shot shows the guidelines and the selection of the painting. Each picture was squared up by distorting the selection to fit the guidelines. Step one is shown on the cover (top right column). The final picture, step 4, shows the properly sized, squared, cropped picture, ready to become part of the video described in Are You on TouTube Yet? in this issue.
Step 2
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Step 4
