Achieving a 35mm Filmstrip Look

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John McGaw
Jun 24, 2003
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I’ve been trying to create a graphic for a my website that has the look of a strip of uncut 35mm slide film that can carry a different small image in each frame. Sadly my graphic talents are, ahem, lacking and even working from a scanned image of a physical piece of film I haven’t achieved the look I want. Is there any sort of resource or plugin or magical incantation available which makes this job easy? I’m working with Photoshop Elements 2 but I don’t figure that this task should require the big guns of the full Photoshop. TIA

John McGaw
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John McGaw
Jun 24, 2003
<infoBlip> wrote in message
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:13:09 -0400, "John McGaw" wrote:

I’ve been trying to create a graphic for a my website that has the look
of a
strip of uncut 35mm slide film that can carry a different small image in each frame. Sadly my graphic talents are, ahem, lacking and even working from a scanned image of a physical piece of film I haven’t achieved the
look
I want. Is there any sort of resource or plugin or magical incantation available which makes this job easy? I’m working with Photoshop Elements
2
but I don’t figure that this task should require the big guns of the full Photoshop. TIA

What you need is Dream Suit 2
does loads of film type strips or slide frames etc FX

http://www.autofx.com/dreamsuite2/ds2.html

Thanks for the idea. Frankly that is a bit out of my price range but it got me to thinking — a graphic artist I know in Nashville may well have that package since her company has made quite an investment in plugins of various sorts. I’m going to ask her and if she does she can make and e-mail me a template with transparent holes for insertion of my images which will remove my lack of artistic talent from the equation. I’m probably up to trimming my images to the correct size, placing them on layers and plopping the film strip template over the top to complete the effect. Certainly worth a try anyway…

John McGaw
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Mike Hide
Jun 25, 2003
A srupid answer but have you tried windows movie maker , comes with windows XP…mjh


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"John McGaw" wrote in message
I’ve been trying to create a graphic for a my website that has the look of
a
strip of uncut 35mm slide film that can carry a different small image in each frame. Sadly my graphic talents are, ahem, lacking and even working from a scanned image of a physical piece of film I haven’t achieved the
look
I want. Is there any sort of resource or plugin or magical incantation available which makes this job easy? I’m working with Photoshop Elements 2 but I don’t figure that this task should require the big guns of the full Photoshop. TIA

John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]

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jrzyguy
Jun 25, 2003
i’d just create the damn thing myself. let me look in my archives and see if i have what you are looking for.

worse comes to worse….you could use some tacky clip art…then apply some layer styles to it

"Mike Hide" wrote in message
A srupid answer but have you tried windows movie maker , comes with
windows
XP…mjh


mike hide
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"John McGaw" wrote in message
I’ve been trying to create a graphic for a my website that has the look
of
a
strip of uncut 35mm slide film that can carry a different small image in each frame. Sadly my graphic talents are, ahem, lacking and even working from a scanned image of a physical piece of film I haven’t achieved the
look
I want. Is there any sort of resource or plugin or magical incantation available which makes this job easy? I’m working with Photoshop Elements
2
but I don’t figure that this task should require the big guns of the
full
Photoshop. TIA

John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]

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John McGaw
Jun 25, 2003
"Mike Hide" wrote in message
A srupid answer but have you tried windows movie maker , comes with
windows
XP…mjh


mike hide
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Maybe I’m missing something here. I thought that Windows Movie Maker was some sort of low-end video editing suite. Does it have some hidden talents? —
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stupid_idiot
Jun 25, 2003
http://www.autofx.com/dreamsuite2/effect_pages/filmstrip.htm l

"Mike Hide" wrote in message
A srupid answer but have you tried windows movie maker , comes with windows XP…mjh


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"John McGaw" wrote in message
I’ve been trying to create a graphic for a my website that has the look of
a
strip of uncut 35mm slide film that can carry a different small image in each frame. Sadly my graphic talents are, ahem, lacking and even working from a scanned image of a physical piece of film I haven’t achieved the
look
I want. Is there any sort of resource or plugin or magical incantation available which makes this job easy? I’m working with Photoshop Elements 2 but I don’t figure that this task should require the big guns of the full Photoshop. TIA

John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]

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Diane
Jun 25, 2003
OK ….. this could be a ‘challenge’ …. or a fun little experiment amoung us PS users!

I KNOW I acheived this look in PS once before … but now I forgot how I did it, so it could be fun for all of us to fool around, and see what we can come up with!

Why pay $50.00 for the program, when looking at the pictures, I KNOW I can acheive that myself … with a little time and playing.

Wanna try guys??
Dee
JM
John McGaw
Jun 25, 2003
"Diane" wrote in message
OK ….. this could be a ‘challenge’ …. or a fun little experiment
amoung
us PS users!

I KNOW I acheived this look in PS once before … but now I forgot how I
did
it, so it could be fun for all of us to fool around, and see what we can come up with!

Why pay $50.00 for the program, when looking at the pictures, I KNOW I can acheive that myself … with a little time and playing.

Wanna try guys??
Dee
I can only say that, with considerably more than "a little time and playing", none of the results I came up with were quite what I was looking for even starting from an image I scanned. I’ve looked at the results shown at the Dreamsuite 2 page and THAT looks like the result I want. I’ve sent an e-mail to my friend in Nashville and I’m sure that if her company has that plugin on their Macs I’ll have a PSD template in short order and given that I can surely do what I want (my artistic talents are probably up to trimming off the unneeded frames but I won’t commit beyond that). Never thought that my newbie post would get so much reaction…

John McGaw
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stupid_idiot
Jun 25, 2003
<snip>Why pay $50.00 for the program, when looking at the pictures, I KNOW I can acheive that myself … with a little time and playing.</snip>

My time is ‘worth’ $125/hour. So, this series and this plugin paid for itself in less than 30 minutes on the first job. That is
why I purchase any software. To improve my workflow.
JM
John McGaw
Jun 25, 2003
"stupid_idiot" wrote in message
<snip>Why pay $50.00 for the program, when looking at the pictures, I
KNOW I can
acheive that myself … with a little time and playing.</snip>

My time is ‘worth’ $125/hour. So, this series and this plugin paid for
itself in less than 30 minutes on the first job. That is
why I purchase any software. To improve my workflow.
And when I was billing big corporations for $125/hour and up I never hesitated to spend tens of thousands on development software and heavy hardware so I could make even more money. And that sort of ratrace led to my burnout and early retirement so now I’m piddling with my non commercial website which means I’m not in the graphics business and am looking for a hobby-level solution. In other words, I’m billing $0/hour so a $0 solution would be a good fit…

John McGaw
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John McGaw
Jun 25, 2003
"John McGaw" wrote in message
I’ve been trying to create a graphic for a my website that has the look of
a
strip of uncut 35mm slide film that can carry a different small image in each frame. Sadly my graphic talents are, ahem, lacking and even working from a scanned image of a physical piece of film I haven’t achieved the
look
I want. Is there any sort of resource or plugin or magical incantation available which makes this job easy? I’m working with Photoshop Elements 2 but I don’t figure that this task should require the big guns of the full Photoshop. TIA

John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]

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I just wanted to say that my Nashville friend came through and sent me a quite usable mask which will allow me to do the 35mm filmstrip look with a minimum of difficulty, at least up to 13 frames which is the length she made. She even gave the film type on the strip a name related to my website although I may beg her to change that a bit. The effect that Dreamsuite 2 gave with no fine tuning or diddling is way beyond what I ever expected to achieve by my own efforts. It would certainly be worth having the package under the right conditions.

John McGaw
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John McGaw
Jun 25, 2003
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Try this…

http://www.developingwebs.net/photoshop/film.php

I’m not sure that I like the round sprocket holes but except for that the effect is beautiful. Thanks.

John McGaw
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Jun 25, 2003
I’m not sure that I like the round sprocket holes but except for that the effect is beautiful. Thanks.

How about this one…action and tutorial

http://www.liknes.no/photoshop/sitemap.htm
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trekdoc
Jun 30, 2005
Jack Davis and Ben Wilmore wrote a book "How To Wow Photoshop for Photography". There is a page that takes you through the filmstrip effect. The CD that comes with the book has the mask already there…much cheaper than buying an effects package…
HL
Harry Limey
Jun 30, 2005
"trekdoc" wrote in message
Jack Davis and Ben Wilmore wrote a book "How To Wow Photoshop for Photography". There is a page that takes you through the filmstrip
effect.
The CD that comes with the book has the mask already there…much cheaper than buying an effects package…

Much cheaper still is one of the Free Filmstrip actions at Adobe Exchange!!
S
Stephan
Jun 30, 2005
Harry Limey wrote:
"trekdoc" wrote in message

Jack Davis and Ben Wilmore wrote a book "How To Wow Photoshop for Photography". There is a page that takes you through the filmstrip

effect.

The CD that comes with the book has the mask already there…much cheaper than buying an effects package…

Much cheaper still is one of the Free Filmstrip actions at Adobe Exchange!!
And much more creative is to make your own…

Stephan

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