Zoom

With AquaSoft ® SlideShow you can also zoom into your images. If you want to show a particular section of an image enlarged, you can generate this using the corresponding tools in the “Layout Designer”. In that respect, you can freely choose the area which you would like to zoom in on.

You can apply “Zoom” and “Camera pans” to the “SlideShow objects” below:

You might find it useful to skim through the movements tutorial first since the zoom function is based on the movement path system.

Click on the “image” in the “Image List” or on the “Timeline”, so that the image is shown in the “Layout Designer” and the corresponding tools are enabled.

Select the

icon from the upper edge of the “Layout Designer” to enter the “Camera pan mode”.

Now click the

icon. This inserts a movement marker. A “position frame” is now drawn around this additional marker. Reduce the size of this marker by means of the “position frame” and drag the section to the place which is supposed to be enlarged.

So that the “Transition” does not have a disturbing effect on the “Zoom”, you can set the “Transition” in the “Object settings” of the image to “None” or increase the “Timestamps”.

The 2nd marker is still marked (orange). First of all set the time there at 4 seconds. Then click the first marker in the “Layout Designer” and set the value to 3 seconds or more.

You can see that, by changing the time of the first marker, the subsequent markers also change automatically. In this way the movement set remains unchanged within the path.

The exposure time of an image is increased automatically if the time of the movement path becomes greater than the “Duration” set in the “Image Object settings”.

If you would like to zoom in on several sections of an image, you can now use a movement path in the image. Imagine you have a group photo and now wish to zoom in on the individual persons. However, you do not wish to constantly zoom in and out, but go over the faces in the image.

For that purpose, you can now insert an additional movement marker with the

icon. Position the marker at the desired final point.

If you now play back the effect, you will now see that a camera pan is possible within the image. Using the time of the last movement marker you can control the speed. If you increase the time, the shot becomes slower.

You can have the image cross faded while you are zoomed in on the section, or first revert back to the overall image size.

In order to revert back to the full size, insert a new movement marker. Please ensure that the last movement marker is selected.

The easiest thing to do is now to use the “custom entry”. Retrieve this via the right mouse button or via the

icon.

At “Marker 4” set 500/500 as the “Center” and 1000/1000 under "Size” . As a result, the image at Marker 4 is displayed completely, again.

If you would like to leave the image at the end exposed a bit longer, increase the “Exposure time” of the image from the “Object settings”. After the end of the movement path, the image then continues to remain on the screen.

When aligning the movement markers, it may occur to you that they snap magnetically to other movement markers and to horizontal and vertical lines of other movement markers. You can prevent them snapping this way by holding down the “Ctrl” key on the keyboard when moving the marker.

Furthermore, the movement markers are also aligned to the grid which can be enabled using the icon.

As you can see, it is very easy to zoom images. Simply insert movement markers and position them as desired – and already motions enters your image.

The movement path can be changed using the “Curve type”. Select “Select all markers” by means of the

icon and click in the “Layout Designer” with the right mouse button.

You will now see the change in the form of the movement marker. This is now square, in order to represent the “curve type” chosen.

After clicking

you can see the change in the zoom. The pan in the curves is now “Hard” and is no longer carried out soft.