Re: Need effects app to animate static images

Oh, I see...just another post in hopes of cleverly bringing an app like the
one you pointed out to the attention of this newsgroup. Nice sales
ploy....but not very creative.


"M.L." <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm working on a project where I might have a need to animate some
static images. I'd like some 2D software that can perform the
animations without a big learning curve. The results I'm after are as
follows:

Exposure effect: Giving the appearance that clouds are intermittently
passing over the sky, forming shadows on the land beneath it, ie.,
giving the effect of brightening and darkening the area below. Harry's
Filters has a preview that shows such an effect using the exposure
filter. Unfortunately, the preview cannot be saved as an animation.

Animated sky effect: This is similar to time-lapsed photography
showing the sky moving throughout the day. I would like to mask an
area of an image and have it move from left to right.

Rain effect: Making it appear that a picture was taken during a
rainfall. I haven't found freeware for this effect. Is a free
Photoshop plugin available?

Snow effect: Making it appear that a picture was taken during a
snowfall. I haven't found freeware for this effect. Is a free
Photoshop plugin available?

Lightning effect: Making it appear that a picture was taken during a
thunderstorm. I haven't found freeware for this effect. Harry's
Filters can do this but it doesn't animate the effect. Is a free
Photoshop plugin available?

Animated fog: I haven't found any software for this effect.

Moving spotlight: Either a white light against a black or dark
background, or a brightened light against ambient lighting.

Any help finding such animation software(s) will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks.


There is an easy answer to this question, but not the one you want to
hear.
At least not in terms of money and learning curve. What you want to do is
a
pretty sophisticated compositing operation requiring multiple layers, each
affecting the other in some manner.

Thanks for your reply, but no, that is not what I was after at all. I
was looking for links to apps or plugins that can add simple but
interesting animated lighting, glint, strobe, smoke/fog, reflections,
ripples, cloud, snow/rain/lightning, and water effects to an image. An
app like Sqirlz Reflection is an example of what I'd like to see more
of.

http://www.xiberpix.com/SqirlzReflect.html


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