Wide's World
Wave to the Wind
by
Widearea
Wave that Flag
On this glorious Boxing Day we will look at a very simple method to create a wave effect using a rectangular or square graphic. This can be used to create a flag waving in the wind, or the simple illusion of movent like in a filmstrip. Since patriotism has seemingly replaced the usual holiday spirit, this only seems somewhat reasonable.
Gettin' Ziggy with It
We will need to create some kind of base art that will lend itself to this effect. A flag design will work nicely, but in adult webmastering we like to use naked people, and since most countries don't yet have the temerity to put a naked chick on their nation's banners, we will create a filmstrip. By using the wave effect it will look like a piece of film as it moves through the projector, giving us the illusion of motion.
Going to town
1. Use your own creativity to design a graphic that will look cool if it were to be bent in the wind or some such. For our example today we are using a basic filmstrip design as base art, with three frames containing (what else?) hot naked chicks. Think about what you would like to do and get ready for step 2.
2. Select File -> New and set the dimensions of your canvas to your desired image size. Our example is 200 x 72 pixels.
3. Get creative on that space. Our base art's example is simply a filmstrip design created by using a black background with simple sqaures filled with white and replicated to create the film sprockets. We also added three images sized to about 60 pixels high for our filmstrip frames.
Feel free to create anything that will make visual sense when the wave filter is applied.
4. When the design is complete, simply select Flatten Image from the layer pallette pulldown menu at the upper right of the pallete window. The figure below shows the state of our example's layer pallette when ready to be flattened.
