How to make glasses and windows see through?

SimonX · January 8, 2021, 7:28am

Hello again everyone.

I want to make some characters stand outside that coffee shop and for that I need to make windows and glasses transparent. I cut out the entire door and windows portion from the image and uploaded it as an overlay, but it didn’t work.

So how do I properly edit the image and upload it as overlay so that windows are transparent and see through?

I use photoshop for editing.

Jes.spencer18 · January 8, 2021, 7:54am

Cut the windows and door out first so they can be used as an overlay, and then cut everything but those out. If that makes sense. Lol do you want me to help?

TristanArciera · January 8, 2021, 7:56am

There are a couple ways of getting windows that are transparent.

You can make overlays of the windows and doors and upload it, then change the opacity in your Episode story script. (This may be easier since you already cut out the doors and windows earlier.)

Example:
&overlay WINDOW create
&overlay WINDOW opacity % < 100%
&overlay WINDOW moves to layer 3
&overlay WINDOW shifts to 50 150 in zone 1

You can take partly erase the windows and doors in PhotoShop so that the opacity is greater than 0, but less than 100%. Then you save this as an overlay.

I hope this helps.

SimonX · January 8, 2021, 8:03am

Yeah Sure. please go ahead.

Ok I’ll try.

Jes.spencer18 · January 8, 2021, 8:11am

@SimonX do you have the background without the red circles lol if so can you post it?

SimonX · January 8, 2021, 9:44am

Here

Farah_DeSantis · January 8, 2021, 10:14am

Hi When doing and overlay which should have translucent glass I cut out all the glass and I add new layer under it filling it with white gray or light blue atc ( dependind on what color I want the glass to be)

And than I play with the transparency of this layer till it has the translucency I want.

In your case si there are ornaments so it will need more work with the cutting out but this is what look in my opinion most natural.

Or you can just simply put the cut out whole windows to new layer and reduce the opacity… but then it will make translucent also the ornaments and the “glass” will have still the background visible there “above the character” so it will be bit less realistic

SimonX · January 8, 2021, 10:57am

Where do you add new layer under it?
In some image editor?

Farah_DeSantis · January 8, 2021, 12:36pm

yes I do it in photoshop so my overlay has both the solid and translucent parts

but technically you can have the translucent glass as another overlay in the episode too

SimonX · January 9, 2021, 5:53pm

Can’t understand. Can you show me pictures of how you do it?

Farah_DeSantis · January 9, 2021, 6:14pm

do you know how to use layers in photoshop?

Farah_DeSantis · January 9, 2021, 6:18pm

so lets say this is the picture before cutting out the windows

this is after the windows are cut out

here is the second layer filled with light blue

this is how it looks like together

And here is lowered the opacity of the glass layer to make it translucent:

here is how character looks behind the glass

SimonX · January 9, 2021, 6:21pm

I know that. Thanks a lot for your pictorial help Farah.

Farah_DeSantis · January 9, 2021, 6:27pm

also remember that overlays have to be png and you need in the script put the overlay and the characters on right layers to put them behind it.

SimonX · January 9, 2021, 6:31pm

Thanks again Farah.

Farah_DeSantis · January 9, 2021, 6:55pm

hope it will work for you. happy writing.

SimonX · January 10, 2021, 6:01am

Thanks Farah…

system · February 9, 2021, 4:01pm

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