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Overlays Dialog
In order to understand some of the Overlay
features of Green Screen Wizard Pro 4.0 it is important to understand
the concept of layers. Think of images pasted on clear plastic
sheets. For example, imagine one plastic sheet simply has the
word "hello" stenciled onto it, and a second sheet
has just the image of a person on it. The final sheet has a
background on it. You could take the sheet that has the person
pasted on it and move it around the background. This is what
Green Screen wizard has always done. If you took the sheet that
has the word "hello" on it and put it above the picture
of the person, then the word hello would cover up the person
and the background. If you rearrange the sheets and put the
person first, the text second and the background third, you’d
see that now the person is covering the text and text is still
covering the background. In computer terms these sheet are called
layers. In the original version of Green Screen Wizard you had
a foreground image and a background layer. You can think of
the background image as the bottom layer and the foreground image
as a layer on top of it. In Green Screen Wizard Pro there are
five layers:
We have the Frame Overlay layer, the Foreground Overlay
layer, the Foreground layer, the Background Overlay layer, and
the Background layer. Each layer will hide parts of the layers
below it. Layers are of course used by the overlay system, but
they’re also use by the annotations system. The annotations
system will let you put text on any layer. By default text goes
on the frame layer which is the highest layer, meaning that the
text will cover anything that is shown. It is possible to put
text on the lower layers so that the person may obscure the parts
of the text. The same is true with images. Images can be randomly
placed above or behind the foreground layer. This gives the user
a tremendous amount of flexibility and creative control. It
is a somewhat difficult concept a master, but once you master
layers you will appreciate the flexibility they bring.
As was previously explained, Green Screen Wizard Pro
4.0 has five layers. The Foreground layer and the Background
layer are loaded using the buttons on the main Dialog. To load
an overlay, simply click on the load button and select the overlay
that you’d like. The overlay will be stretched to fit whatever
image size you have. Overlays are presented in both wide and
tall formats in some cases.
A new concept in Green Screen Wizard Pro 4.0 is the
sandwich overlay. In this type of overlay there’s a Foreground
overlay that has a matching Background overlay. This has the
effect of making the foreground image appear to be sandwiched
between the two overlays. In some cases the Background overlay
completely covers the background. In other cases it just provides
an interesting context for the foreground image. In the Full
Version of Green Screen Wizard we allow a single overlay so that
people can take advantage of our new magazine cover collection
and frame collection. In Green Screen Wizard Pro, magazine covers
can be done more correctly. Consider these two covers:
 
In the Rolling Stone cover Bono is under the Rolling
Stone Logo. This can be done with a simple overlay. In the Sports
Illustrated cover Maria is “sandwiched” between the
cover text and the Sports Illustrated title. This would be done
in Green Screen Wizard Pro by having a Foreground overlay with
the border and the text and a Background overlay that had the
title on it. As a convenience, if a Foreground overlay starts
with “Foreground_” then the system will look for a
Background overlay that has the same name but starts with “Background_”
. For example the overlay file “Forground_RollingStone.png”
would also load “Background_RollingStone.png” if “Background_RollingStone.png”
exists.
This shows the Overlay Dialog for Green Screen Wizard
Pro. The dialog is the same for the Lite and Full Versions but
they only have the Foreground Overlay.
Clicking the load button on the frame overlay panel
will bring up the dialog box as shown.
Selecting the gold frame will cause the frame to be
drawn over the foreground image and the background. You can
shift and scale the image to fit the frame. This is a simple
but very effective technique.
Select a foreground overlay by hitting the load button
in the foreground overlay section. Let’s first load a simple
magazine overlay intended for Green Screen Wizard Full. As you
can see, the overlay title is covering part of the model. In
Green Screen Wizard Full we would make the model smaller to avoid
this, as shown.
An example of the sandwich overlay is the crystal
ball. This is a really cool affect. Simply load the foreground
crystal ball overlay and then the background overlay of the crystal
ball is loaded for you.
 Note how the foreground
and the background images were both loaded.
You may have to resize and reposition the foreground
and background images to make sure they are placed in the proper
position so the images are shown properly
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