Picture in top-right of movie

NIKI

Newbie Joined: Oct 21, 2009 17:47 Messages: 15 Offline

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Oct 21, 2009 18:22

Dear Users,

Can someone please make me a file, that I can use in Powerdirector 8.0 as Ive just downloaded?
The picture is this one:
http://www.pro-street.dk/PSfilm.jpg
- What I want is the picture to be on my carmovie, in the top-right of the screen all the time when the movie is shown.

When I try to do it, the quality of the picture is very poor, and there is a border around it except I just made it on a transperent background in Photoshop.

So please help!

Thanks

Best regards
Niki

James Dotson

Senior Contributor Location: Tennessee Joined: Aug 24, 2009 20:40 Messages: 3066 Offline

Oct 21, 2009 22:33

When you have it as a transparent image in PhotoShop, did you export it as a transparent gif?

Click on Help > Export Transparent Image
Click Ok (maybe Next)
Select Online and click next
Select PNG and click Next
Choose a name and save.

With that said, here it is, although I can't tell if it looks very good from this. It seems to retain some of the white around the text.

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii216/SpringCityMotorsports/temp/niki.png

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FredB

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 15, 2008 21:14 Messages: 1317 Offline

Oct 22, 2009 12:19

Niki;
Might have to do with the "matte" setting in Photoshop during the save of the png.

Try This one:
http://customercomputing.com/files/niki2.png

Does that remove the fringe for you?

P.S. I am assuming that this is your image, right?

NIKI

Newbie Joined: Oct 21, 2009 17:47 Messages: 15 Offline

Oct 23, 2009 08:37

Jamie - No, I did export it as a JPG in the highest quality as is available (Quality 12). Maybe thats a problem?

Fred - Yes, it is my own picture - My logo for my website. I use this on every of our pictures, on our fysical banner, on our website and lots of other places, ex. in our movies.

Guys: Im at my girlfriend atm, so please leave the pictures online for some days untill im home again, so I can try with your versions of the pictures, and then I will answer you if it did work.

Btw - Thanks a lot for the help, I hope it works!

NIKI

Newbie Joined: Oct 21, 2009 17:47 Messages: 15 Offline

Oct 25, 2009 13:32

Hey guys!

The picture does work now in my movie, and it is very good quality too!
Thanks so much!

- So when I have to do something like this with a picture top-right of the movie, the pictures just have to be in .png instead of .jpg before it works?

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FredB

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 15, 2008 21:14 Messages: 1317 Offline

Oct 25, 2009 14:27

PNG has a transparency component with greater color palette than a GIF. JPG does not allow a transparency.

Watch the "Matte" setting when you save as this may determine the "fringe" color you see around the image when used (if it exists). I removed the white fringe from your image (in my version) by selecting the black and "contracting" the selection by one pixel.

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NIKI

Newbie Joined: Oct 21, 2009 17:47 Messages: 15 Offline

Oct 25, 2009 15:56

Cool..

I wanna save this topic for further videos with this problem.
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