How to Create a Winking E-card
If you like sending friends and family e-cards, there are any number of companies that can provide this service. If you want a custom e-card image or graphic, you may be able to create it yourself if you have access to a graphics editing program like Adobe Photoshop or the freeware program Gimp. Complex e-cards are possible if you combine a graphics program with the image rendering abilities of the freeware program Daz Studio. One example of the kind of e-card you can create is a winking eye e-card.
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Instructions
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Go to Daz3D and download and install the Daz Studio application. Download the Victoria 4 figure along with a texture. You may be able to get a free texture for the V4 figure at Renderosity. Install the V4 figure and the texture to the Daz Studio application.
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Open Daz Studio. Then browse through the "Library" folders on the left to find the V4 figure. Use the mouse to drag it into the scene. Now browse to find the texture and drag it onto the figure.
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Click on the "Pose" tab at the top. Select the figure in the scene. Move the camera using the "Camera Controls" so that the view is taken up by the right eye of the figure as much as possible. Click on the "Parameter" tab on the right and scroll down to the "Eye Open- CloseR" slider. Use it to close the eye as though it is winking.
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Click on the "Render" tab at the top. In the "Render Settings" on the right make the size and quality settings want you want for your winking e-card image. Then click the "Render" icon at the top. Save your image as a jpeg named "Eye Closed." Now go back and change the "Eye Open- CloseR" slider so that the eye is open. Render the scene again, this time saving it as "Eye Open."
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Open Photoshop. Select "File " and click "Open." Browse to the two images and open them. Select the "Eye Closed" image and click "Select" in the menu and select "Select All." Now select "Edit" and click "Copy." Go to the "Eye Open" image and select "Edit" and click "Paste."
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Select "Windows and click "Animation." A timeline will appear at the bottom. Click on the dropdown arrow in the upper right corner of the timeline and select "Make Frames from Layers." Now click on the "Duration" setting at the bottom of each frame and change it to .5 seconds. Select "File" and click "Save for Web or Devices." In the dialog that pops up make the file a gif and save your winking e-card image.
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