Las Vegas Magic
Studio
Swimsuit Gallery
Introduction
How it Works
Of Dollars and Cents
Summary
The Las Vegas Overlay
System
Understanding Overlays
The Las Vegas Heat
Transfer Systems
Presses
Turbo Speed Print
Order Samples
Browse and Order Heat
Transfer Consumables
Browse and Order Las
Vegas System
Components
Digital Cameras
ID Printers
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Vulcan. Certainly, and I can give you lots of choices all easily accessed via the
custom keyboard. You can get an 8.5" x 12" print on the Kodak - or on a
Primera Pro if I had that printer. Or a 4" x 6" print on the FotoFUN!, the size of
a postcard. If you select the Kodak, I can still give you two options, print as is,
or print the mirror image. If you wish me to prepare a T-shirt with you picture on
it, you must print a mirror image. All I have to do is press the button "Print
Mirror Kodak" on the custom keyboard. The software takes care of everything.
With the FotoFUN! it is the same thing. I can print as is directly on a postcard
which you can mail via the Post Office - there is even room for a stamp. Or I can
print a mirror image by pressing the button "Print Mirror FotoFUN!" on the
custom keyboard. In this case, I will use the picture to transfer it to a mug, using
Computer Friends' full-wrap Mug Press.
Juno. It is good to have all these choices. Print first my picture, then also make
me a postcard using the FotoFUN! Later I will ask you to show how you can do
a T-shirt. I never thought it would be so easy to change bodies. Maybe I will get
a system for myself. (aside to Circe). With this system I can change into the
body that happens that day to catch Jupiter's fancy.
Vulcan. (prints a Kodak picture and gives it to Juno).
Juno. This is excellent quality, I see that the picture does not seem to come out
of a computer.
Vulcan. That is the merit of Computer Friends' software Turbo-Speed-Print.
Turbo-Speed-Print takes over when you go to print and eliminates all pixellation
from the image, as well as increasing the picture resolution and reducing
dramatically print preparation time. To know more about Turbo-Speed-Print you
need to read the play Of Bits and Pixels. My friend Thyrsus knows all about it -
in fact he has become my assistant.
Juno. This video overlaid picture of me gives me some more ideas. I would like
to add some text to it and create some special effects. Suppose I wish to send
ito a special someone with a script like "I am waiting for you". Can I do it?
Vulcan. Certainly. If you wish to do simple modifications, like adding text you
can do it with the drawing tools and fonts accessible directly from
Picture-In-A-Picture. but if you wish to access all the features of the Image
Processing Program then you have two ways of doing it - the standard way, or
thanks to Computer Friends' Image Processor Link, the super-fast way. In the
standard way you save the picture as a .bmp file, for example, juno1.bmp then
you open the Image Processing Program and load in the file juno1.bmp. Now
you can apply the text, or any other modification you want and you are ready to
print.
Or, using Computer Friends' Link you press the Link button on the custom
keyboard and immediatley the file is transferred to Adobe Photoshop without
in-between steps. This saves a lot of time especially when I have customers
waiting in line to have their picture taken.
Juno. I see, now since you told me it is possible I would like to take the picture
you have made of me (with Hermione's body) and overlay it over some romantic
landscape. Do you have any on file?
Vulcan. Yes, I have fields of tulips, roses, daffodils, daisies, carnations, etc.
Which one would you like to try?
Juno. Let's try the daisies.
Landscape (daisies) and loaded mask
(black area with oval). | 
Black area has been made transparent to
landscape (hence daisies show through).
White area has been made transparent both
to video (hence face shows through) and to
landscape (hence the daisies also fill the
part of the oval not occupied by the face). |
Vulcan. No problem, first I will load the file daisies.bmp - that is what I called
the image of the landscape with the daisies. Now I load what is called a mask - to
make it simple, just imagine that I (physically) superimpose a piece of paper with
an oval hole over the landscape.
Juno. Can you move the mask anywhere you like over the landscape? I would
like my new image to appear a bit to the left of center.
Vulcan. Certainly, you move the mask with the cursor until you find the right
position, and, as you have guessed, the new Juno image will appear through the
mask.
Juno. But how can we, starting from a mask that loocks like a rectange with a
hole, end up with a picture where the rectangle is gone and where only I and the
daisies appear?
Vulcan. Picture-In-A-Picture lets you very easily select which area is transparent
to what, or better said, what will show through the mask. So in our example, you
can select everything but the oval to be transparent to the landscape, and the oval
to be transparent both to the landscape and the video. So in the board area of the
mask you will see the landscape - it is as if the mask did not exist. And in the
oval you will see the landscape and your picture.
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