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investigating Main and beyond — adding special effects
You can add cool special
effects to pictures
and movies.
On Main, click Special Effects.
This takes you to a screen
where you can give special effects to
pictures and movies.
What Special
Effects do
Special effects change the way
your picture or
movie looks. Here
are some pictures and movie frames
with special effects applied.
Frunobulax,
the make-believe fly
Frunobulax, the fly that walks on two
legs
, is pretty interesting…
…but it looks even
more interesting
when you apply the Fly’s
Eye special effect.
And here’s the
same effect
applied
once
again
to
the same
picture.
Other
special
effects
There are six other effects, including
Distort, Atomic Glow, and Kaleidoscope.
An eighth button randomly applies two
of the effects to your picture or movie.
Special
Effects
progress
bar
It takes time to apply a
special effect to a
movie. When the first frame is done,
a Progress Bar and Cancel button
appear. If you don’t want to wait, you
can cancel running the effect.
Kaleidoscopic
brine shrimp
Brine shrimp look cool by
themselves but you can make
them even cooler with the
Kaleidoscope special effect.
Here are two frames from our
Kaleidoscopic brine shrimp movie.
You can
hear what
each special effect
does by using
Audio Help.
Select a
picture from your
collection and
try out the
different effects!
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Adding special effects