Automatically have motion trace a line drawing over an imported image?

I was wondering if there is any way for motion to automatically follow the path of a line of a drawing that I imported from photoshop so that I could make this image appear to draw on? It would seem sensible that the program have some way of selecting a particular color (the way you can do that in photoshop) and then create a line path out of that to replace the imported image so write on effects or anything else could then be applied. Anyone have thoughts on this?

It'd be nice, but there currently isn't a way to turn a bitmap into a path... you can key a color, but that's about it...
Patrick

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It's going to mean a lot of reading but you should study the 'More like this' legend to your post's immediate right. >>>>>>>> plus some of the links within each.
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First let me apologize for posting a reply that was only suitable for advanced users. Photoshop is broad and powerful therefore has a huge learning curve. In fact I would state no one knows and uses all of Photoshop. When we first get Photoshop it intimidate us and we're very uncomfortable using it. Many thing are not intuitive there in much learning involved. After some time we begin to know something and we are able to do some thing. Learning become rapid and we start playing in Photoshop. It is very important to play with Photoshop. Playing with Photoshop and asking for help with in forums like this IMO is the best way to learn.
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I do not type or do English well so let me do some screen captures. I can not stress enough how important Black, White, Grays and Blending is when it come to image processing. Become friends with Multiply, Screen, Overlay and Luminosity blending.....
However when there is a white or black background though you can blend them you can not add a style like a drop shadow, emboss or make it invisible setting fill to 0 so only the style is visible. When there is contrast between the logo and background it is easy to separate the two. To select the background and delet it to have the logo with a transparent background. Many tools can be used to create the selection hee I use my action kill white.
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I need your help to draw a cumulative line graph over this bar chart.
I need your help to draw a cumulative line graph over this bar chart in SSRS.
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I use quite some escape sequences in my bash prompt, amongst them a few that produce line drawing characters. Works fine in the virtual consoles (tty), but no terminals in X (tried xterm, terminal, urxvt) display them correctly, for some reason. My locale settings seem fine, and I've tried various fonts (including the one I use in the virtual consoles).
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FYI, my bash prompt variable. Does it display correctly for you?
DRED='\e[0;31m'
DGREEN='\e[0;32m'
DYELLOW='\e[0;33m'
DBLUE='\e[0;34m'
DPURPLE='\e[0;35m'
DCYAN='\e[0;36m'
DWHITE='\e[0;37m'
LRED='\e[1;31m'
LGREEN='\e[1;32m'
LYELLOW='\e[1;33m'
LBLUE='\e[1;34m'
LPURPLE='\e[1;35m'
LCYAN='\e[1;36m'
LWHITE='\e[1;37m'
COLRESET='\e[0m'
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Last edited by Mzg (2010-07-09 10:00:41)

After some detective work I have managed to come up with an explanation as well as what seems to be a working solution.
If you have not tried the prompt above, basically I tried to use some line drawing characters in my bash prompt, but these refused to display correctly under any X terminals I tried (though it looked fine on virtual consoles).
The problem was in the
\[\016\] ... \[\017\]
sequences. The \016 escape sequence is supposed to enter the alternate character set mode (common way to draw e.g. lines in text mode) while \017 returns the terminal to the standard character set. These work fine on the virtual consoles, but are apparently a no-no in (some) X terminals. If you tried the prompt you would notice that the color escape sequences worked fine, only the line drawing characters failed.
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For urxvt, which is my preferred terminal emulator, the solution is quite simple. This should also work with other rxvt-derived terminals (including the popular aterm), though I have not tested this.
These terminals offer the same functionality as the virtual consoles, though the escape sequences are different. "\033(0" enters alternate charset mode while "\033(B" returns to standard charset mode. So the solution is simply to replace all previous
\[\016\] ... \[\017\]
sequences with
\[\033(0\] ... \[\033(B\]
But this poses a problem, as the virtual consoles do not recognize these sequences and you'll get the same problem as before, only in text mode instead of X. I solved this by using the PROMPT_COMMAND variable to run fgconsole every time a command is ran in bash, checking if the command is ran in tty7 (i.e. X11) or in one of the (other) virtual consoles. This is my code for the root prompt:
DRED='\e[0;31m'
DGREEN='\e[0;32m'
DYELLOW='\e[0;33m'
DBLUE='\e[0;34m'
DPURPLE='\e[0;35m'
DCYAN='\e[0;36m'
DWHITE='\e[0;37m'
LRED='\e[1;31m'
LGREEN='\e[1;32m'
LYELLOW='\e[1;33m'
LBLUE='\e[1;34m'
LPURPLE='\e[1;35m'
LCYAN='\e[1;36m'
LWHITE='\e[1;37m'
COLRESET='\e[0m'
function prompt_func
# Running in tty7 or larger (X11)
if [ `sudo fgconsole` -gt 6 ]
then
PS1="\n\[$DBLUE\]\[\033(0\]l\[\033(B\]\[$DRED\](\u@\h)\[$DBLUE\]\[\033(0\]qqq\[\033(B\](\[$LBLUE\]H\!\[$DBLUE\])\[\033(0\]qq\[\033(B\](\[$LBLUE\]C\#\[$DBLUE\])\[\033(0\]qq\[\033(B\](\[$LBLUE\]J\j\[$DBLUE\])\[\033(0\]qqq\[\033(B\](\[$LBLUE\]\D{%H:%M %A %d - %B %Y}\[$DBLUE\])\n\[\033(0\]t\[\033(B\]\[\033(0\]q\[\033(B\](\[\[$LBLUE\]\w\[$DBLUE\])\n\[\033(0\]mqq\[\033(B\]> \[$LBLUE\]"
else
PS1="\n\[$DBLUE\]\[\016\]l\[\017\]\[$DRED\](\u@\h)\[$DBLUE\]\[\016\]qqq\[\017\](\[$LBLUE\]H\!\[$DBLUE\])\[\016\]qq\[\017\](\[$LBLUE\]C\#\[$DBLUE\])\[\016\]qq\[\017\](\[$LBLUE\]J\j\[$DBLUE\])\[\016\]qqq\[\017\](\[$LBLUE\]\D{%H:%M %A %d - %B %Y}\[$DBLUE\])\n\[\016\]t\[\017\]\[\016\]q\[\017\](\[\[$LBLUE\]\w\[$DBLUE\])\n\[\016\]mqq\[\017\]> \[$LBLUE\]"
fi
PROMPT_COMMAND=prompt_func
Note that I do not claim to be a good bash programmer, so there might be better ways. This has however worked flawlessly so far, including when su'ing to other users, and switching between tty's and X.
The code is the same for my other users, except from the colors. Note the
`sudo fgconsole`
Sudo proved necessary for non-root users. I added an entry in the sudoers config file to let all users run fgconsole as root without providing a password.
Okay, that's it. It's a bit dirty, but it solved my problem at least.
Last edited by Mzg (2010-07-10 07:06:44)

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