User manual NUANCE SUPERGOO

[. . . ] User Guide for Windows® and Macintosh® Trademarks SuperGOO is a trademark of ScanSoft, Inc. "Macintosh" is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Incorporated. "Windows" and "PowerPoint" are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. "Pentium" is a registered trademark and "i486" is a trademark of Intel Corporation. [. . . ] Place your cursor over the newly GOOed right eye and begin GOOing 26 Kai's SuperGOO User Guide 3. The eye unGOOes, but in its new location. The eyes after they've been GOOplicated. BTo apply the Twirl effect to an image: 1. Click the bottom set of buttons on the left side of the screen to display the Effects palette. The Effects palette buttons. Lesson 2: GOOing Using Effects GOO effects let you GOO the entire image all at once. The Effects palette lets you apply nine different effects to your picture. In this lesson you'll use the Effects palette to apply several effects to your face. 2. The Twirl effect is applied to the image. Just GOO It!: A Tutorial 27 The Twirl effect applied to the face. CMaking GOOvies A GOOvie is a collection of keyframes played together as an animation. As the movie, or GOOvie plays, your image moves from one transformation to another. The Keyframe Controller lets you save images as keyframes and delete or display specific frames. In this section you'll learn how to create keyframes and preview your animation. BTo apply the Spike effect to an image: 1. The Spike effect is applied to the image. The final look of the spike effect. BTo save an image as a keyframe: 1. The face in the Image Canvas appears in the frame. The face in the first frame. 28 Kai's SuperGOO User Guide 3. Click the ZigZag button on the Effects palette. The ZigZag effect applied to the face. BTo play a GOOvie: 1 Click the Movie Camera icon on the right side of the Image Canvas. Click the mouse button to stop the playback. BTo control the playback speed: 4. Click on the next empty frame in the filmstrip to save the Vortex effect as a keyframe. Click the Stretch button to apply the stretch effect. The Stretch effect applied to the face. 1 Drag the Playback slider down, towards the turtle, to slow down the playback of your movie. You can also drag the slider up, towards the rabbit, to speed up playback. CMoving On 6. Click the center of the third frame to save the Stretch effect as a keyframe. The face in the third frame. Well, that's about it. Once you've completed the tutorial you're ready to explore the rest of SuperGOO. In fact, that's probably the best way of learning how SuperGOO works--explore. If you don't, click on something else. Just GOO It!: A Tutorial 29 30 Kai's SuperGOO User Guide The GOO Room CHow the GOO Room Works The GOO Room is where you'll distort images and create GOOvies. The room provides a series of tools that let you play with the images as if they were made out of liquid. There are also tools that let you save your distorted image at different stages. [. . . ] The feature moves in the direction you drag. The FUSION Room 47 CRandomizing Features The Mutator, located in the bottom-right corner of the screen, lets you randomize the features of the face in the Image Canvas. When you use the Mutator, features are taken from the GOO libraries and randomly combined on the face. The Mutator. Gender Selector BTo randomize the features on a face: 1. Disable the Feature control for any features you don't want randomized. A new set of features appear in the Image Canvas. Feature controls Randomize button CCombining Features Not only can the FUSION Room create faces from a library of existing features, it can also fuse the features from existing pictures to create a totally new face. [. . . ]