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- Page 1 User Guide for Windows and Macintosh ® ®...
- Page 2 Program ©1998–1999 “PowerPoint” are registered ScanSoft, Inc., including the look © 1998-1999 ScanSoft, Inc. trademarks of Microsoft and feel of the product. SuperGOO 9 Centennial Drive Corporation. “Pentium” is a User Guide ©1998–1999 ScanSoft, Peabody, MA 01960 registered trademark and “i486” is Inc.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Making GOOvies ....28 What is SuperGOO? ....11 Using the Edit Palette . - Page 4 Kai’s SuperGOO...
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Page 5: Welcome To Supergoo
You can add a nose, mouth, eyes and hair to a blank face to create your own original face. Kai’s SuperGOO is the evolution of the fabulously successful Kai’s These features are included in a library that comes with the Power GOO, the latest release of Liquid Image™... -
Page 6: Macintosh Installation
• 14" Monitor To install your SuperGOO software: 1. Insert the SuperGoo CD-ROM disc into your CD-ROM drive. Installation 2. If you are using Windows NT 4.0, select File menu> Run. If you are using Windows 95, select Start menu> Run. -
Page 7: About This User Guide
This user guide provides all the information you need to get the most software. out of Kai’s SuperGOO. It will help you learn the application and serve as a reference as you attempt more sophisticated procedures. Power Macintosh:... -
Page 8: Technical Support
You will find the answers to most of your questions within the pages of this user guide. If you need further assistance, contact ScanSoft Customer Support on the World Wide Web at: www.scansoft.com Note: ScanSoft, Inc. reserves the right to change its support policies at any time. Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide... - Page 10 Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide...
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Page 11: Getting To Know Kai's Supergoo
What can I do with Kai’s SuperGOO? The most obvious use for SuperGOO is to take images of family, friends and co-workers and use the SuperGOO distortion tools to create funny parodies of people for your own amusement. You can then save those images as parts of movies or as a still images. -
Page 12: The Fusion Room
Using the huge number of noses, eyes, mouths, heads and hair stored from a variety of sources, or opened from the GOO library. in the Kai’s SuperGOO library, you can create almost any face. You can Use the GOO Room to distort imported images. -
Page 13: The Option Buttons
Kai’s SuperGOO is an incredibly easy-to-use program. Most of Kai’s SuperGOO’s features are applied by a simple click and drag. The best way to get the most out of Kai’s SuperGOO is to just click a tool and try it. -
Page 14: Saving Pictures
BMP, PICT, Photoshop, TIFF, JPEG, GIF or FlashPix. Once Scanning Pictures saved, a picture can be used in another image-editing application or You can scan images directly into Kai’s SuperGOO using a program page-layout application. interface called TWAIN. This interface lets Kai’s SuperGOO interact directly with your scanner. -
Page 15: Printing Pictures
Once you’re done GOOing a picture or finished creating a new face, you can print your work. To print a picture: 1. Click the Out button and choose Print. The Print dialog appears. 2. Set up your print options and click Print. Getting to Know Kai’s SuperGOO... - Page 16 Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide...
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Page 17: Just Goo It!: A Tutorial
Kai’s SuperGOO. teach you how to use the major features and functions in Kai’s SuperGOO. Once you’re done you’ll know how to use most of the tools to create your own image and then GOO them. -
Page 18: Making Faces
This room lets you take different facial features like eyes, noses, and mouths and mix them up to create different faces. You can mix and match any number of features. Kai’s SuperGOO provides a huge number of features to choose from. -
Page 19: Lesson 2: Adding Features
1. Click the Eyes Feature control to disable it. The Head Feature control on the Mutator. 2. Click the upper-left library control to display the..symbol. This tells SuperGOO that you want to add a female mouth. The Gender library control 2. Click the Randomize button. -
Page 20: Lesson 3: Editing Features
2. Drag the nose on the face up and slightly to the left. Notice that the nose moves, but the rest of the face stays the same. The generated face with a repositioned nose. 5. Click the face in the center to hide the library previews. Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide... -
Page 21: Lesson 4: Cloning Features
To resize a feature: To rotate a feature: 1. Click the Resize tool. 1. Click the Rotate tool. The Resize tool. The Rotate tool. 2. Move the cursor over the mouth and drag to the right. The 2. Move the cursor over the center of the nose and then drag mouth rotates clockwise. - Page 22 2. Locate the file Documentation: Tutorial: MYFACE and click Open. This icon lets you know which part of the source image will be cloned onto the Image Canvas. 4. Make sure that the Origin Selector is positioned over the eyes of the MYFACE image. Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide...
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Page 23: Goo It
5. In the Image Canvas, drag your mouse over the eyes in small 2. Drag the cloned eyes up slightly so that they cover the original circles. As you drag, the eyes from the MYFACE image appear on eyes. your face. The cloned eyes covering the original eyes. -
Page 24: Lesson 1: Gooing Using Brushes
The GOO brushes palette buttons. 5. Repeat the move on the right side of the face. The face after its been smeared. These tools let you GOO specific portions of the image. 2. Click the Smear tool. The Smear Tool. Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide... - Page 25 5. Place your cursor on the left side of the boy’s nose, press down and pull your mouse to the left slowly. To smudge an area of your image: The face after its been smudged. 1. Select the Smudge tool. The Smudge tool 2.
- Page 26 To GOOplicate an area of your image: 1. Select the Nudge tool. 1. Select the GOOplicate tool. The Nudge tool. The GOOplicate tool. 2. Place your cursor over the newly GOOed right eye and begin GOOing Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide...
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Page 27: Lesson 2: Gooing Using Effects
3. The eye unGOOes, but in its new location. To apply the Twirl effect to an image: The eyes after they’ve been GOOplicated. 1. Click the bottom set of buttons on the left side of the screen to display the Effects palette. The Effects palette buttons. -
Page 28: Making Goovies
2. Click the center of the frame. The face in the Image Canvas effect is applied to the image. appears in the frame. The final look of the spike effect. The face in the first frame. Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide... -
Page 29: Moving On
Moving On Well, that’s about it. Once you’ve completed the tutorial you’re ready to explore the rest of SuperGOO. In fact, that’s probably the best way of learning how SuperGOO works—explore. Just click on things and see what they do. If you like the effect, click on it again. If you don’t, 6. - Page 30 Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide...
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Page 31: Chapter 3 The Goo Room
The GOO Room The GOO Room How the GOO Room Works Image Canvas The GOO Room is where you’ll distort images and create GOOvies. The room provides a series of tools that let you play with the images as if they were made out of liquid. There are also tools that let you save GOO Brush your distorted image at different stages. -
Page 32: Working In The Goo Room
A keyframe is a snapshot of your image at different stages. When you your picture in the center of the screen. GOOing an image is just a string a number of keyframes together, SuperGOO fills in the gaps matter of dragging a brush over the image and seeing what happens. -
Page 33: Viewing An Image
The Pan button. You can import a file using either a third-party plug-in or by scanning it directly into SuperGOO. Refer to “Importing Files using Plug-ins” on page 13 and “Scanning Pictures” on page 14 for more on both importing methods. -
Page 34: Mirroring A Brush Effect
Mirroring a Brush Effect Smooth, and UnGOO. Using the mirror control you can mirror a brush effect either vertically or horizontally. When the Vertical Mirror button is enabled, brushstrokes are mirrored along a vertical axis. When the Horizontal Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide... - Page 35 Smudge Smudge affects a slightly smaller area than Smear, but with decreased To activate the GOO Brush palette: pressure. Use it to create small, subtle distortion effects. Click the top set of rainbow-colored brush icons. The GOO Brush palette appears on top of the Image Canvas. Nudge The GOO Brush palette icons.
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Page 36: Using The Goo Effects Palette
To use a GOO Effect: Click on one of the brush buttons to apply the effect to the entire image. Click and drag within your image to apply the effect. GOOplicate UnGOO Squeeze Squeeze pinches your image inward or outward. Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide... - Page 37 Tiling Tiling lets you zoom out of your image. As you move further away, SuperGOO tiles the image to fill the Image Canvas. If you drag to the left or right over the image, it rotates. Stretch Stretch pulls your image vertically and horizontally.
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Page 38: Adding Text
Adding Text In SuperGOO you can add a layer of text over top of your image. The Text dialog lets you enter your text string, select a font type, style alignment and color. The Text dialog. ZigZag Ripple Twirl Since the text is on its own layer, it’s not affected by the GOO brushes or effects. -
Page 39: Making Goovies
An animation is created by saving different images to the Keyframe 6. Click the color button and choose a text color. palette. When you play the GOOvie, SuperGOO moves between the images stored in the Keyframe palette. The Keyframe palette displays 7. -
Page 40: Using The Control Slider
“tweening” (which refers to the “in between” frames from one keyframe to the next). SuperGOO, on the other hand, creates these intermediate images in real-time. The Control Slider can be used to view the intermediate animation frames between your original image and the last selected keyframe. -
Page 41: Saving Animations
Controlling Playback 3. Choose a Format popup menu and choose a file format for your movie. The Playback Slider (located below the Movie Camera) is used to set the speed at which you want your animation to play. Drag the 4. - Page 42 Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide...
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Page 43: Chapter 4 The Fusion Room
The FUSION Room The FUSION Room. How the Fusion Room Works Image Canvas The Fusion Room lets you create faces by combining different facial features. You can choose from a host of features stored in the GOO libraries, or you can import your own pictures and use them to create Clone a new face. -
Page 44: Working In The Fusion Room
Mutator You can import a file using either a third-party plug-in or by scanning it directly into SuperGOO. Refer to “Importing Files using Plug-ins” The Mutator lets you randomly combine different facial features. You on page 13 “Scanning Pictures”... -
Page 45: Using The Face Palette
Changing Features When you activate a tool, four small controls appear around it. These Using the Face Palette controls let you search through the GOO libraries to find the right facial feature. You can use the controls to move through the library Each of the tools in the Face palette let you change a specific feature on one feature at a time or display a number of features all at once. -
Page 46: Hiding/Showing Features
4. Click the face in the center of the Image Canvas to hide the library previews. Hiding/Showing Features You can also use the tools to disable specific features. When the tool appears dimmed, that feature is not displayed on the face. Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide... - Page 47 You can click the Reset button at any time to undo your changes. To resize a facial feature: The Edit palette. 1. Click the Resize tool. Clone Tool 2. Drag over the feature you want to resize. Drag away from the center of the feature to increase its size, or drag towards its center Reposition Tool to decrease its size.
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Page 48: Randomizing Features
For example, when you find a head you like, disable the head control, and continue randomizing. Then when you find a mouth, disable the mouth control as well. You can continue disabling controls until you’re happy with the entire face. Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide... -
Page 49: Saving Faces
Cloned portions of an image appear on their own layer that floats over the rest of the image. This means that you can move the cloned To load an image into the Clone window: features anywhere on the image Canvas, without affecting the rest of the face. -
Page 50: Using Your Own Photos In The Fusion Room
Room. Here are some tips for using photos: • Images that have straight-on face shots make it easier to find features to clone. • Photos with little or no background make cloning just the facial components easier. Kai’s SuperGOO User Guide...