For many us, the 4th of July weekend is all about picnics, soaking up sun, having fun on the water and enjoying a long weekend with the family. Naturally, a big highlight of every Independence Day is the fireworks!
Fireworks images are powerful and can add a very unique sense of energy and action to a 4th of July slideshow. The downside of course is that they can be a little hard to capture.
In the world of slideshows, combining still photos and video clips is often referred to as “fusion”. The visual concept isn’t new, but among slideshow enthusiasts and photographers, this technique is becoming more and more popular.
Tools like ProShow make combining photos and video clips in a slideshow easier than ever.
Scene from an awesome slideshow by Discovery Bay Studios, a studio that’s mastered the art of mixing photos and video together. Watch the entire show.
If you haven’t made a slideshow with video before, here are a few quick tips to help get you started.
Today’s tutorial comes from Jennifer Clark. Jennifer is the owner and creator of Choicebackgrounds.com, a resource for ProShow effects, video backgrounds, training and more. Today she shares some tips on using masks in Producer.
“Once you’ve got the basics of grey-scale masking down (White reveals, Black conceals, variants of grey fall somewhere in between) you’re ready to play with some masks. So, you add two images to a slide and add a gradient mask on top of one of them. But it doesn’t look right….you can still see the edge of your photo, even though it is clearly under the mask:
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