Does this program do Split-Screen photos?

Simon Sez

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Dec 08, 2017 13:21

Hey everyone,

I'm thinking of purchasing this product but I was curious to know if anybody knows if this product can create split-screen images? I want to try and do some 'before and after' style photos and I hear-tell photodirector is a pretty good program. Does this program offer that feature? And if so, does anyone have a tutorial on how to create a 'split-screen' image for it?

Cheers!

stevek

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Dec 08, 2017 15:37

Quote Hey everyone,

I'm thinking of purchasing this product but I was curious to know if anybody knows if this product can create split-screen images? I want to try and do some 'before and after' style photos and I hear-tell photodirector is a pretty good program. Does this program offer that feature? And if so, does anyone have a tutorial on how to create a 'split-screen' image for it?

Cheers!

Try it yourself. There is a 30 day trial here.

There are tons of tutorials here.

The easiest way is to use overlays to a color background. There are others depening on how much you are going to do. .
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Dec 08, 2017 22:55

Hello SimonSez,

If you mean a dynamic split screen like this or this, the answer is no. That needs specialised software.

You can create a static split screen easily in the Layers module.

Start with two images (e.g. before & after event) shot from the same position.

Crop the "After" photo to half width or height.

Open the "Before" image in the Layers module

Add a new photo layer & import the cropped "After" photo

Reposition the cropped photo to align

Export the new split screen photo.

A screenshot is attached that uses the before/after aerial shots fromm the recent Houston floods (shown in the first link above).

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Simon Sez

Newbie Joined: Sep 10, 2016 23:24 Messages: 26 Offline

Dec 09, 2017 10:29

Quote

Quote Hey everyone,

I'm thinking of purchasing this product but I was curious to know if anybody knows if this product can create split-screen images? I want to try and do some 'before and after' style photos and I hear-tell photodirector is a pretty good program. Does this program offer that feature? And if so, does anyone have a tutorial on how to create a 'split-screen' image for it?

Cheers!

Try it yourself. There is a 30 day trial here.

There are tons of tutorials here.

The easiest way is to use overlays to a color background. There are others depening on how much you are going to do.

Thanks.

Simon Sez

Newbie Joined: Sep 10, 2016 23:24 Messages: 26 Offline

Dec 09, 2017 10:31

Quote Hello SimonSez,

If you mean a dynamic split screen like this or this, the answer is no. That needs specialised software.

You can create a static split screen easily in the Layers module.

Start with two images (e.g. before & after event) shot from the same position.

Crop the "After" photo to half width or height.

Open the "Before" image in the Layers module

Add a new photo layer & import the cropped "After" photo

Reposition the cropped photo to align

Export the new split screen photo.

A screenshot is attached that uses the before/after aerial shots fromm the recent Houston floods (shown in the first link above).

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I have ColorDirector, can that use the Layers module? Also, what kind of specialised software is there than can create the dynamic split screen for images? Any recommendations?

Hatti

Contributor Location: Bonn, Germany Joined: Feb 21, 2017 15:54 Messages: 576 Offline

Dec 09, 2017 16:01

No, ColorDirector ist for ColorGrading. And has no layers. The layer module is in PhotoDirector.
And the dynamic spliiting is called "image comparison slider". Have a look at a googling machine of your choice.
It is a programmed effect, not the image itself. There is no image format, that contains such a slider.

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Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 21, 2011 00:02 Messages: 2910 Offline

Dec 10, 2017 06:05

Thank you, Hatti, for your valuable input.

If you're interested in creating a dynamic "image comparison slider" like this, you'll find some useful information here.

There is a way of generating an "image comparison slider" in PowerDirector, though it's not interatcive like the others I've linked in this thread.

This tutorial shows how...

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