Feature question before buy

bcsaba wrote on 8/23/2018, 4:51 AM

I am about to buy a slideshow manager. However, I need a special transition which is not listed in any tests I have already read, and I know it exists because I have already seen in old (and dead) Picasa.

The transition is very useful if you want to show i.e. the aging of a person (especially children). It takes the different photos and puts them on top of each other in the slideshow, that way, that the eyes are on the same place throughout the slideshow. It shrinks or enlarges, even rotates the photos automatically to have the eyes exactly on the same places. You can make a very delicate slideshow.

I am wondering if this transition is available in Photostory before I buy it. It is a must for me!

Comments

johnebaker wrote on 8/23/2018, 8:10 AM

@bcsaba

There is no effect which can take a bunch of images and do the overlay, size position adjustments for you.

What you are trying to do is not complicated and can be done using a standard crossfade between the images shown in sequence.

The images will have to be adjusted for size and position to achieve a good overlay and the crossfade duration adjusted to what you want.

Here is a quick example done in Photostory - I do not have any suitable people photos so I used a building

and the timeline looks like this

HTH

John EB

bcsaba wrote on 8/23/2018, 8:47 AM

Dear John,

Thank you. I would not say that it is "complicated". You are right in, that "The images will have to be adjusted for size and position to achieve a good overlay". And this is the problem. If you have let's say 100 photos from 1 months age up to 18, then adjusting the size, rotating to the proper position to have the same eye's distance is a real challenge and that is what I would not like to do. The computer is right for these jobs.

johnebaker wrote on 8/23/2018, 11:37 AM

@bcsaba

. . . . If you have let's say 100 photos. . . then adjusting the size, rotating to the proper position to have the same eye's distance is a real challenge and that is what I would not like to do . . . .

It is very time consuming, however for some complex resizing I create guides, as shown below, which speed things up to less than 1 min per image and remove them after copmletion

HTH

John EB