User manual
Table Of Contents
- C Welcome to SuperGOO
- C Installation
- C About This User Guide
- C Technical Support
- C What is SuperGOO?
- C Exploring the Kai’s SuperGOO Workspace
- C The Basics of Working with Kai’s SuperGOO
- Working with Rooms
- Working with Files
- B To open a picture:
- Importing Files using Plug-ins
- B To install plug-ins:
- B To 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 ...
- 2. Select a folder on your system where you want imported images stored.
- 3. Click the In button again and choose Import Via Plug-Ins > Select Plug-ins Folder from the men...
- 4. Locate the folder where you’ve stored your import plug-ins.
- Scanning Pictures
- B To scan a picture into Kai’s SuperGOO:
- 1. Click the In button and choose Import via TWAIN > Set Destination for Acquires and Imports fro...
- 2. Select a folder where you want to store scanned images.
- 3. Click the In button again and choose Import via TWAIN > Select TWAIN Source. The Select Source...
- 4. Select your scanner from the list and click OK.
- 5. Click the In button again and choose Import via TWAIN > TWAIN Acquire. The TWAIN dialog appears.
- 6. Use the dialog controls to setup and start a scan of your picture.
- B To scan a picture into Kai’s SuperGOO:
- C Saving Pictures
- C Printing Pictures
- Getting to Know Kai’s SuperGOO
- Just GOO It!: A Tutorial
- C Welcome
- C Getting Started
- C Making Faces
- Lesson 1: Making a Random Face
- Lesson 2: Adding Features
- B To replace a feature using the Face tools:
- 1. Drag your cursor over the Mouth tool. Four little controls, called Library controls, appear ar...
- 2. Click the upper-left library control to display the.......symbol. This tells SuperGOO that you...
- 3. Click the upper-right library control. A series of mouth previews appear around the face.
- 4. Click a mouth you like. The mouth is applied to the face.
- 5. Click the face in the center to hide the library previews.
- B To replace a feature using the Face tools:
- Lesson 3: Editing Features
- Lesson 4: Cloning Features
- B To clone a features from an image:
- 1. Click the Clone tool.
- 2. Locate the file Documentation: Tutorial: MYFACE and click Open.
- 3. In the Image Canvas, move the cursor over the eyes. Notice that an Origin Selector icon appear...
- 4. Make sure that the Origin Selector is positioned over the eyes of the MYFACE image.
- 5. In the Image Canvas, drag your mouse over the eyes in small circles. As you drag, the eyes fro...
- B To reposition cloned features:
- B To clone a features from an image:
- C GOO It
- B To move to the GOO Room:
- Lesson 1: GOOing Using Brushes
- B To smear an area of your image:
- 1. Click the top set of rainbow colored buttons. The GOO Brushes palette appears.
- 2. Click the Smear tool.
- 3. Drag the Size control slider down to reduce the size of the brush.
- 4. Move the cursor to the right corner of the mouth and pull down, then to the side and up.
- 5. Repeat the move on the right side of the face.
- B To smudge an area of your image:
- 1. Select 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 ...
- 4. Click the Mirror Vertical button. When this button is enabled, any changes you make to one sid...
- 5. Place your cursor on the left side of the boy’s nose, press down and pull your mouse to the le...
- B To move an area of your image:
- B To nudge an area of your image:
- B To GOOplicate an area of your image:
- B To smear an area of your image:
- Lesson 2: GOOing Using Effects
- C Making GOOvies
- B To save an image as a keyframe:
- 1. Move the cursor to the first empty frame.
- 2. Click the center of the frame. The face in the Image Canvas appears in the frame.
- 3. Click the ZigZag button on the Effects palette.
- 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.
- 6. Click the center of the third frame to save the Stretch effect as a keyframe.
- B To play a GOOvie:
- B To control the playback speed:
- B To save an image as a keyframe:
- C Moving On
- The GOO Room
- C How the GOO Room Works
- C Working in the GOO Room
- C Using the GOO Brush Palette
- C Using the GOO Effects Palette
- C Adding Text
- B To add text:
- 1. Click the ABC icon on the right side of the screen. The Text dialog appears.
- 2. Click the font popup and choose a font from the menu.
- 3. Enter your text into the window.
- 4. Click one of the alignment buttons to create left, right or center aligned text.
- 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.
- B To add text:
- C Making GOOvies
- Working with Keyframes
- Using the Control Slider
- Playing Your Movies
- Saving Animations
- B To save an animation:
- 1. Make sure you have at least two keyframes in the Keyframe palette.
- 2. Click the In button at the top of the screen and choose Make Movie from the popup menu. The Ma...
- 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. The options available depend on the Compressor you select...
- 6. Click OK to exit the options dialog.
- 7. Click the arrow icon next to the File Location text label. The Save dialog appears.
- 8. Choose a location for your movie and click Save.
- 9. Drag the Size slider to set the dimensions of your animation.
- 10. Click the checkmark icon to create a movie file.
- B To save an animation:
- The FUSION Room
- C How the Fusion Room Works
- C Working in the FUSION Room
- C Using the Face Palette
- Changing Features
- B To change a facial feature:
- B To 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...
- 2. Click the upper-right library control. A series of preview for the selected feature appear aro...
- 3. Click the preview of the feature you want to use. The feature is applied to the face.
- 4. Click the face in the center of the Image Canvas to hide the library previews.
- Hiding/Showing Features
- Changing Features
- C Using the Edit Palette
- C Randomizing Features
- C Combining Features
- B To clone a features from an image:
- 1. Click the Clone tool. The Open dialog appears.
- 2. Locate the file you want to use and click Open. The image appears in the Clone Source window.
- 3. In the Image Canvas, position the cursor over the area where you want to place a cloned portio...
- 4. Drag the mouse over the area in small circles. As you drag, a portion of the source image appe...
- 5. Use the Edit palette tools to reposition, or resize the cloned features.
- B To 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.
- 3. On the Image Canvas move the cursor over the area where you want the cloned features to appear.
- 4. Drag the over the desired area. The features from clone image appear on your FUSION Room face.
- B To clone a features from an image:
- C Saving Faces
- C Using your Own Photos in the Fusion Room
Just GOO It!: A Tutorial 19
A new male face appears on the Image Canvas.
BTo control how a face is generated:
1. Click the Eyes Feature control to disable it.
2. Click the Randomize button.
All the features on the face, except the eyes are replaced
randomly.
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. Drag your cursor over the Mouth tool. Four little controls, called
Library controls, appear around the tool.
2. Click the upper-left library control to display the.......symbol.
This tells SuperGOO that you want to add a female mouth.
A male symbol indicates that you want to add a male mouth.
A randomly generated male face.
The Head Feature control on the Mutator.
The Mouth tool with its Library controls displayed.
The Gender library control