Sun Beams Effect
March 20th, 2007
I haven’t done a screencast in ages! (Yet alone a photoshop one). But the other day I got an email from Pang who asked whether I could make a screencast to demonstrate how to recreate the sun beams effect that I used in an old wallpaper. I was all too happy to oblige so here’s the screencast, it’s in .h264 so you’ll need QT7 or VLC to view it.
Download the Sun Beams video (4.8mb)
BigA
20th March 2007Excellent. I've been told several ways of achieving this, but i always seem to forget.
Dru Owner
21st March 2007Glad to be of service :)
ilichuan
23rd March 2007很漂亮，喜欢你的教程，谢谢！加油哦
Phoebus Osuns
11th April 2007Thanks a lot for the tutorial. But I can't manage it. The beam just moves clockwise with a degree when I preform "Transform again". The beam can't be duplicated.
Dru Owner
11th April 2007It sounds like your missing a key off the shortcut, just for you to check
For the mac the shortcut is:
command+alt+shift+T
For windows it's:
ctrl+alt+shift+T
Let me know if you still have any problems!
Phoebus Osuns
12th April 2007You're right. I really missed a key off the shortcut before. I can now have my sunbeams. Thanks a lot for your help. I will watch out on your site for more tutorials. Thanks a lot! :D And do you mind telling me how you recorded the tutorials and save it as .mov. I'm a Mac user as well. :)
Dru Owner
13th April 2007Yeah sure :) My workflow is a bit lengthy because I like to use h264 to keep the files small, but unfortunately there's a bug with Snapz Pro X (the app I record with) that breaks the movie.
Thus, it goes something like this:
1. Capture the movie in SnapzPro X 2. Export at full quality using Apple Animation Codec 3. Open in Quicktime Pro, then export again using h264.
As an alternative to Snapz Pro X which is a tad pricey, you could use the much cheaper iShowU but if you want to record in h264 you'll need quite a beefy mac (or an intel one at any rate).
And if you don't want to get Quicktime Pro then you can use either VisualHub or an open source solution to convert the video.
Phoebus Osuns
13th April 2007Again, thanks so much for your generous help. I really appreciate it. :D
mpare
22nd May 2007There seems to be a problem with your download.php. I was able to get the link but I had to bypass download.php.
Peace!
mpare
22nd May 2007I guess I should have posted the working link for others. Click here to download screencast!
http://creativeflux.co.uk/videos/screencasts/SunBeamsEffect.zip
Dru Owner
22nd May 2007Thanks for letting me know about that, it was a problem with one of the mint peppers I'm using. Everything should be fine now :)