User Guide for Windows® and Macintosh®
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Table of Contents Welcome to SuperGOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 What’s New? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Windows Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Macintosh Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Installation Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 About This User Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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CWelcome to SuperGOO Kai’s SuperGOO is the evolution of the fabulously successful Kai’s Power GOO, the latest release of Liquid Image™ “Funware” from ScanSoft, Inc. All the fun you had GOOing faces and pictures has been greatly enhanced, and the FUSION Room now has its own library of facial components you can pick from. What’s New? If you’re a user of GOO this section will give you a head start on locating, learning and taking advantage of SuperGOO’s new features.
• CD-ROM Drive • 16 MB RAM allocated to application • 16-bit video • 25 MB HD Space for Install • 14" Monitor • 40 MB Free HD Space (after Install) • CD-ROM Drive • 16-bit video • 14" Monitor Installation BTo install your SuperGOO software: 1. Insert the SuperGoo CD-ROM disc into your CD-ROM drive. 2. If you are using Windows NT 4.0, select File menu> Run. If you are using Windows 95, select Start menu> Run. Installation BTo install your SuperGOO software: 3.
• There are no open applications (other than Win95/NT4.0, of course). • There are NO applications running in the background. This includes anti-virus software, crash monitors or system diagnostic software. Power Macintosh: Please be sure that: • Your operating system is 7.6.1 or higher. • Your display is set to a minimum of 16-bit colors (65,000 colors). We recommend 24-bit (true color). • You are not running Virtual Memory or any RAM enhancing program such as RAM Doubler.
CTechnical Support You will find the answers to most of your questions within the pages of this user guide. If you need further assistance, contact ScanSoft Customer Support on the World Wide Web at: www.scansoft.com Note: ScanSoft, Inc. reserves the right to change its support policies at any time.
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Getting to Know Kai’s SuperGOO CWhat is SuperGOO? Kai’s SuperGOO is the latest addition to the ScanSoft line of creative entertainment tools. Like its predecessor, Kai’s Power GOO, SuperGOO is a fun image-distortion tool. Using SuperGOO’s tools and effects, you can stretch, stir, bulge, or twirl pictures to create “funhouse mirror” distortion effects. Using the libraries that come with SuperGOO you can create your own realistic faces.
The FUSION Room The GOO Room The FUSION Room works like a police sketch artist’s tool. It lets you combine different facial components to create your own unique faces. Using the huge number of noses, eyes, mouths, heads and hair stored in the Kai’s SuperGOO library, you can create almost any face. You can also incorporate features from your own photographs. The GOO Room is where you distort images to create your own custom pictures.
The Option Buttons The three buttons that appear at the top of each room let you move between rooms and access import and export functions. BTo move between rooms: ✤ The Option buttons. In the GOO Room click the FUSION button at the top of the screen to move to the FUSION Room. In the FUSION Room, click the GOO button to move to the GOO Room. CThe Basics of Working with Kai’s SuperGOO Kai’s SuperGOO is an incredibly easy-to-use program.
BTo install plug-ins: ✤ In Finder or the Windows desktop, drag the plug-in application’s icon in to the SuperGOO: plugins folder. BTo import a picture using plug-ins: 1. Click the In button at the top of the screen and choose Import Via Plug-Ins > Set Destination for Acquires and Imports from the menu. The Set Destination dialog appears. 2. Select a folder on your system where you want imported images stored. 3.
CPrinting Pictures Once you’re done GOOing a picture or finished creating a new face, you can print your work. BTo print a picture: 1. Click the Out button and choose Print. The Print dialog appears. 2. Set up your print options and click Print.
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Just GOO It!: A Tutorial Lesson 1: Moving Between Rooms CWelcome Welcome to the Kai’s SuperGOO Tutorial. This tutorial is desgned to teach you how to use the major features and functions in Kai’s SuperGOO. Once you’re done you’ll know how to use most of the tools to create your own image and then GOO them. Each section of this tutorial is self-contained. So, if you only want to learn about GOOing, skip to the GOO lesson, or if you only want to learn about fusing images, jump to the Fusion lessons.
CMaking Faces In this section you’ll learn how to use the features of the FUSION Room to create a face. The FUSION Room works like a police sketch artist’s tool. This room lets you take different facial features like eyes, noses, and mouths and mix them up to create different faces. You can mix and match any number of features. Kai’s SuperGOO provides a huge number of features to choose from. In this section you’ll create a face by combining features from the FUSION library.
A new male face appears on the Image Canvas. A randomly generated male face. Lesson 2: Adding Features All the features on a face in the FUSION Room can be replaced by a feature stored in the GOO library. The library for a particular feature is accessed by moving your cursor over a tool in the Face palette. The Face palette contains the six tools that control each of the features on the face: Head, Mouth, Eyes, Nose, Hair and Facial Hair. BTo replace a feature using the Face tools: 1.
3. Click the upper-right library control. A series of mouth previews appear around the face. The randomly generated head surrounded by mouth previews. Lesson 3: Editing Features Once you’ve added features to your face, you can re-arrange them to refine your face, or to create an unrealistic funny face. The tools in the Edit palette let you reposition, resize, rotate, and flip facial features. BTo reposition a feature: 1. Click the Reposition tool in the Edit palette. The Reposition tool. 4.
BTo resize a feature: BTo rotate a feature: 1. Click the Resize tool. 1. Click the Rotate tool. The Resize tool. 2. Move the cursor over the center of the nose and then drag towards the top-right corner of the screen. The nose enlarges. Release the mouse button when the nose is about the size shown. The Rotate tool. 2. Move the cursor over the mouth and drag to the right. The mouth rotates clockwise. The generated face with a rotated mouth. The generated face with an enlarged nose.
Features are combined using a process called cloning. When you clone something, a portion of a source image is duplicated onto a destination image. The MYFACE appears in a clone window. This image will act as the source for your cloning. The MYFACE image in a clone window. Once the features are cloned onto your face, you can reposition or edit them using the Edit tools. In this lesson, the source image is a file called MYFACE and the destination is the face in the Image Canvas.
5. In the Image Canvas, drag your mouse over the eyes in small circles. As you drag, the eyes from the MYFACE image appear on your face. 2. Drag the cloned eyes up slightly so that they cover the original eyes. The cloned eyes covering the original eyes. The generated face with cloned eyes. BTo reposition cloned features: 1. Click the Reposition tool. The Reposition tool. CGOO It In the GOO Room your pictures are treated like they’re made out of liquid.
Lesson 1: GOOing Using Brushes The GOO brushes let you smear, smudge, twist and generally distort your image. Each of the brushes lets you distort the image differently. 3. Drag the Size control slider down to reduce the size of the brush. The Size control slider. In this lesson you’ll use the GOO brushes to turn the face you created in the FUSION Room into a caricature. BTo smear an area of your image: 1. Click the top set of rainbow colored buttons. The GOO Brushes palette appears.
BTo smudge an area of your image: 1. Select the Smudge tool. 5. Place your cursor on the left side of the boy’s nose, press down and pull your mouse to the left slowly. The face after its been smudged. The Smudge tool 2. Click the up arrow to increase the size of the brush. 3. Drag the Flow control up to increase the flow of the Smudge tool. Higher flows make the image act like it’s more liquid. Colors streak easier and the picture distorts quickly.
2. Place your cursor on the right side of his forehead and push up and to the right. 2. Place your cursor at the center of the right eye and gently push up. The face after its been smeared. The eyes after they’ve been nudged. BTo nudge an area of your image: BTo GOOplicate an area of your image: 1. Select the Nudge tool. The Nudge tool. 1. Select the GOOplicate tool. The GOOplicate tool. 2.
3. The eye unGOOes, but in its new location. The eyes after they’ve been GOOplicated. BTo apply the Twirl effect to an image: 1. Click the bottom set of buttons on the left side of the screen to display the Effects palette. The Effects palette buttons. Lesson 2: GOOing Using Effects GOO effects let you GOO the entire image all at once. Different effects produce completely different results. The Effects palette lets you apply nine different effects to your picture. 2. Click the Twirl button.
The Twirl effect applied to the face. CMaking GOOvies A GOOvie is a collection of keyframes played together as an animation. As the movie, or GOOvie plays, your image moves from one transformation to another. The Keyframe Controller lets you save images as keyframes and delete or display specific frames. In this section you’ll learn how to create keyframes and preview your animation. BTo apply the Spike effect to an image: BTo save an image as a keyframe: 1. Select the Spike button. 1.
3. Click the ZigZag button on the Effects palette. The ZigZag effect applied to the face. BTo play a GOOvie: ✤ Click the Movie Camera icon on the right side of the Image Canvas. Your stored images are played in the Image Canvas. Click the mouse button to stop the playback. BTo control the playback speed: 4. Click on the next empty frame in the filmstrip to save the Vortex effect as a keyframe. 5. Click the Stretch button to apply the stretch effect. The Stretch effect applied to the face.
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The GOO Room CHow the GOO Room Works The GOO Room is where you’ll distort images and create GOOvies. The room provides a series of tools that let you play with the images as if they were made out of liquid. There are also tools that let you save your distorted image at different stages. You can then create an animation, or GOOvie, out of your distortions.
GOO Brush Palette The first set of rainbow buttons in the upper left corner of the screen shows or hides the GOO Brush Palette, which contains nine different distortion brushes. GOO Effects Palette The second set of rainbow buttons shows or hides the GOO Effects Palette, which contains nine different distortion effects. Control Slider When the GOO Palette is active, the control shifts the picture between the current GOO composite and the original image.
BTo open a file: 1. Click the In button and choose Open from the dialog. 2. Locate the picture file you want to use and click Open. The picture appears in the center of the screen. You can import a file using either a third-party plug-in or by scanning it directly into SuperGOO. Refer to “Importing Files using Plug-ins” on page 13 and “Scanning Pictures” on page 14 for more on both importing methods.
You can also size the brush using the up and down arrow keys on your keyboard. Use the up arrow key to increase the brush size and the down arrow key to reduce brush size. BTo set the flow of a brush: ✤ Mirror button is active, brushstrokes are mirrored along a horizontal axis. If both buttons are enabled, brushstrokes are mirrored both horizontally and vertically. An effect mirrored horizontally, vertically and along both axes.
BTo activate the GOO Brush palette: ✤ Click the top set of rainbow-colored brush icons. The GOO Brush palette appears on top of the Image Canvas. The GOO Brush palette icons. Smudge Smudge affects a slightly smaller area than Smear, but with decreased pressure. Use it to create small, subtle distortion effects. Nudge The extremely small size and high pressure of Nudge makes it useful for creating a finger-painting effect. Twirl Twirl applies a small twirling distortion to an area of your image.
CUsing the GOO Effects Palette The GOO Effects palette consists of nine different global distortion effects including: Bulge, Twirl, Rotate, Stretch, Squeeze, Spike, Noise, and UnWind. Smear Smudge Nudge BTo activate the GOO Effects palette: ✤ Click the bottom set of rainbow-colored brush icons. The GOO Effects palette appears on top of the Image Canvas. The GOO Effects palette icons.
Wave Wave produces wave-like distortions over your image. Vortex Vortex pulls the edges of your image towards the center as if the picture was being sucked into a black hole Twirl Twirl causes your image to twirl clockwise or counter-clockwise ZigZag ZigZag causes your image to distort in concentric waves. Ripple Ripple causes your image to distort in waves that resemble a ripple of water. Spike Spike adds a radiant effect to your image which resembles rays extending outward.
CAdding Text In SuperGOO you can add a layer of text over top of your image. The Text dialog lets you enter your text string, select a font type, style alignment and color. The Text dialog. ZigZag Tiling Ripple Squeeze Twirl Spike Since the text is on its own layer, it’s not affected by the GOO brushes or effects. You can position text anywhere on the image. BTo add text: 1. Click the ABC icon on the right side of the screen. The Text dialog appears. 2.
5. Click one of the style buttons to change the text style. B= Bold, I= Italic, S= Drop Shadow. 6. Click the color button and choose a text color. 7. Click the A, B or C icons to resize. 8. Click the Ok icon to close the dialog. Your text appears on the Image Canvas. 9. Drag the text to a position on the image and click to place it. Working with Keyframes An animation is created by saving different images to the Keyframe palette.
BTo create duplicate keyframes: 1. Move the Keyframe controller over the keyframe you want to duplicate. 2. Click the down arrow in the top-left corner of the Keyframe controller. Using the Control Slider Dragging the Control Slider up moves through the intermediate images toward the current image, dragging down moves back toward your original image. Playing Your Movies Once you have saved images into at least two keyframes, you can play your GOOvie using the Movie Camera.
Controlling Playback The Playback Slider (located below the Movie Camera) is used to set the speed at which you want your animation to play. Drag the Playback Slider up towards the rabbit to increase the speed of your animation, or down towards the turtle to decrease the speed. The Playback Slider. 3. Choose a Format popup menu and choose a file format for your movie. 4. Click the Settings popup to display compression options for your movie. 5. Set the desired Compression options.
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The FUSION Room CHow the Fusion Room Works The Fusion Room lets you create faces by combining different facial features. You can choose from a host of features stored in the GOO libraries, or you can import your own pictures and use them to create a new face. The tools in the FUSION Room let you add different types of facial features and access the GOO libraries.
Face Palette The Face Palette contains controls for adding the different features that make up the face. Each tool controls a different facial feature. Library Controls Each Face tool has four controls that let you view the different facial features available in the library. Edit Palette This a palette contains tools for editing the position and scale of a selected feature. Mutator The Mutator lets you randomly combine different facial features.
Changing Features CUsing the Face Palette Each of the tools in the Face palette let you change a specific feature on the face. Using the tools you can change the Head, Mouth, Nose, Eyes, Hair and Accessories. When you activate a tool, four small controls appear around it. These controls let you search through the GOO libraries to find the right facial feature. You can use the controls to move through the library one feature at a time or display a number of features all at once.
BTo change a facial feature using the library previews: 1. Click the Face tool for the feature you want to change. For example, if you want to change the nose, click the Nose tool. Four Library controls appear around the activated tool. 2. Click the upper-right library control. A series of preview for the selected feature appear around the image in the Image Canvas. A series of library previews displayed over the Image Canvas.
You can click the Reset button at any time to undo your changes. The Edit palette. BTo resize a facial feature: 1. Click the Resize tool. Clone Tool Reposition Tool Resize Tool Rotate Tool Stretch Vertical Tool Stretch Horizontal Tool 2. Drag over the feature you want to resize. Drag away from the center of the feature to increase its size, or drag towards its center to decrease its size. BTo rotate a facial feature: 1. Click the Rotate tool. 2. Drag over the feature you want to rotate.
BTo randomize the features on a face: CRandomizing Features The Mutator, located in the bottom-right corner of the screen, lets you randomize the features of the face in the Image Canvas. When you use the Mutator, features are taken from the GOO libraries and randomly combined on the face. 1. Drag the Gender Selector to choose either male or female features. 2. Disable the Feature control for any features you don’t want randomized. 3. Click the Randomize button.
Cloned portions of an image appear on their own layer that floats over the rest of the image. This means that you can move the cloned features anywhere on the image Canvas, without affecting the rest of the face. The Clone Window with a portion of the source image being cloned onto the Image Canvas. Clone Source BTo load an image into the Clone window: 1. Click the Load button on the Clone window. The In dialog appears. 2. Locate the file you want to use as a clone source and click Open.
BTo recall a stored face: ✤ Click on the face you want to use. BTo clear a Memory Frame: ✤ Option/Alt-click the Memory Frame you want to clear. BTo retrieve a face from Memory Frame: ✤ Click the Memory Frame you want to use. CUsing your Own Photos in the Fusion Room Since you can copy any feature from an imported photo into the FUSION Room, you’ll probably want to add features from people you know. Almost any photo with a face in it can be useful in the FUSION Room.
