Rotoscoping for still images
Anyone know of any good cheap/free programs for rotoscoping. It's for a little project, which I'd be delighted to share with you all when it's finished.
I do not have Photoshop. If you could direct me to any examples of any of those there names, I'd love you dearly. Really. What does the filmstrip feature look like?
I should say also, I am doing all of this on still images, if that's any help. Maybe rotoscoping wasn't the right word for this. There's a couple people here involved in digital picture manipulation, so if any of them could provide some sort of help, again, it'd be much appreciated.
Aha. Still images, much simpler, software-wise. Yeah, rotoscoping means doing this on motion images, which is what the filmstrip thing would've been for. For just stills, anything that has masking tools and supports multiple layers and/or alpha channels would be what you want. Bezier curves would be a bonus, as would the ability to soften your edge selections. But I'll let someone else field that one, as far as applications. Photoshop's all I know well in that regard.
If you already have Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) you could use the Filmstrip feature. But that's the hard way. You probably want something with splines and sequential-frame playback and all that. Combustion's kinda the go-to app for this. Maybe Shake. None of them are cheap.
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