running water

[ftlog666]

good evening.......how do  get the effect of water moving????    eg a flower floating on moving water.

 

i apologize for not having a photograph to upload on this.

 

many thanks again

 

regards  

 

 

[david.atwell]

Paint.NET isn't really an animation program.  There is an animated GIF plugin, but it's really not made for that and there is no automated way to do any animation patterns.

 

Also, this is really more of a question of art styles...for instance, your water could look like this:

 

 

Or it could look like this:

 

 

As you can see, very different ideas both way.  You'd probably be better served asking this questions on an art forum.  :-)

[yellowman]

Or do you mean something like this:

 

 

If yes then you need a GIF animator.

[ftlog666]

Paint.NET isn't really an animation program.  There is an animated GIF plugin, but it's really not made for that and there is no automated way to do any animation patterns.

 

Also, this is really more of a question of art styles...for instance, your water could look like this:

 

 

Or it could look like this:

 

 

As you can see, very different ideas both way.  You'd probably be better served asking this questions on an art forum.  :-)      i do have the animation plug in - off to the tutorials - thank you so much

[ftlog666]

Or do you mean something like this:

 

 

If yes then you need a GIF animator.

yes - this is exactly what i want....i only have 'animation helper plug in'.....will have another look at the tutorials ....thank you so very much for your reply  :Tutorials: back to school!!!  

[ftlog666]

If it's animation like above you want but not confident about making it yourself, then the Reflecting Water animation in LunaPic could be worth trying

 

original

 

 

... notice I cropped the base off the original so's the ripples catches it right

i had a look at LunaPic as you suggested - this is the effect i am trying to achieve & LunaPic does it all for you - yet another question??  when you have uploaded to that site - can you then save???  many thanks for your learned advice, kindest regards

[ftlog666]

i had a look at LunaPic as you suggested - this is the effect i am trying to achieve & LunaPic does it all for you - yet another question??  when you have uploaded to that site - can you then save???  many thanks for your learned advice, kindest regards

i went to the site you so very kindly suggested - yep everything was just fine - downloaded it to my computer ...shock, horror dismay - the water wasn't running...any idea what i did wrong????

[ftlog666]

Or do you mean something like this:

 

 

If yes then you need a GIF animator.

there are so many of them on the net - is there one could could possibly recommend????  my approx 8 week experience with this makes me a little suspicious of some sites

[pdnnoob]

I recommend Simon Brown's plugin: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/13454-animated-image-24-agif-apng/page-1

If you don't like that, UnFREEz works alright.

[yellowman]

I use Photoscape, it is free.

 

In my image I created the frames in PDN using Water Reflection plugin, then animated them in Photoscape.

 

I use a complicated method to create the frames for the animations, by using PDN simultaneously with another application that saves me more than 90% of the time.