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1. To clone a features from an image 1 Click the Clone tool The Open dialog appears 2 Locatethefileyou want to use and click Open The image appears in the Clone Source window 3 InthelmageCanvas position the cursor over the area where you want to place a cloned portion of the image 4 Dragthemouse over the area in small circles As you drag a portion of the source image appears on your face 5 Usethe Edit palette tools to reposition or resizethe cloned features y To load an image into the Clone window 1 Click the Load button on the Clone window The ln dialog appears 2 Locatethe file you want to use as a done source and click Open The image appears in a done window 3 On the I mage Canvas move the cursor over the area where you want the cloned features to appear 4 Dragthe ove thedesired area The features from clone image appear on your FUSION Room face Saving Faces The memory frames located below the mage canvas let you save different faces As you create faces you may want to save different stages of change For example if you re playing with the mouth and get it into just the right position you can temporarily store it in a memory frame and then continue editing features To store a face in a Memory Frame 1 Set up theface in the Image Canvas 2 Click on an empty memory Frame The FUSION Room 49 y To recall a stored face Click on the face you want to use v To clea2. To apply the Twirl effect to an image 1 Click the bottom set of buttons on the left adeof the screen to display the Effects palette The Effects palette buttons Lesson 2 GOOing Using Effects 2 Click the Twirl button GOO effects l amp you GOO theentireimageall at once Different effects The Twirl button produce completely different results The Effects palettelets you apply nine different effects to your picture gt In this lesson you ll usethe Effects palette to apply several effects to your face 3 Click and drag from the center of your image out The Twirl effect is applied to the image Just GOO It A Tutorial 27 The Twirl effect applied to the face Making GOOvies A GOOvieis a collection of keyframes played together as an animation As the movie or GOOvie plays your image moves from onetransformation to another The Keyframe Controller lets you save images as keyframes and ddete or display specific frames In this section you ll learn how to create keyframes and preview your animation V To apply the Spike effect to an image y To save an image as a keyframe 1 Sdect the Spike button 1 Movethecursor to thefirs empty frame 2 Click and drag from the center of your image out The Spike 2 Click the center of theframe Thefacein the mage Canvas effect is applied to the image appears in the frame The final look o
3. An editing device for the Keyframe Palette the Keyframe Controller floats over the top of the palette allowing you to easily move and sdect your keyframes Sdect akeyframethen click on the lower arrow to ddeeit or the upper arrows to load the keyframe to up arrow or from down arrow the mage Canvas 32 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide Playback Slider Press and drag up or down to set the speed of your animation Drag up to increase animation speed or down to decrease it Movie Camera Click on the Movie Camera to preview your GOOvie Click anywhere to stop playback Text Engine TheABC text laba accesses the Text dialog which lets you add text to a layer that floats over your picture Refer to Adding Text on page 38 for moreon adding text Working in the GOO Room The GOO Room works like a painting easd All the brushes and tools you ll need to play with an image are arranged around a preview of your picture in the center of the screen GOOing an image is just a matter of dragging a brush over the image and seaing what happens Different brushes produce very different results so try experimenting with anumber of them Opening or Importing Images Before you tart GOOing you ll need an image You can ather open an existing image or import one You can import images using ather a third party plug in or a scanner y To open a file 1 Click the In button and choose Open from the dialog 2 Locatethe pictur
4. User Guide for Windows and Macintosh Trademarks SuperGOO is atrademark of ScanSoft Inc Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer Incorporated Windows and PowerPoint are registered trademarks of M icrosoft Corporation Pentium isa registered trademark and i486 is a trademark of Intel Corporation mageStream is a trademark and ImageStream Graphics Filters is a registered trademark of IN SO Corporation All other product names mentioned in the manual and other documentation are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies Registered and unregistered trademarks used herein arethe exclusive property of their respective owners ScanSoft Inc makes no claim to any such marks nor willingly or knowingly misused or misapplied such marks Copyright This manual as well as the software described in itis furnished under license and may only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of such license Program 1998 1999 ScanSoft Inc including the look and feel of the product SuperGOO User Guide 1998 1999 ScanSoft Inc No part of this guide may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of ScanSoft Inc Notice Before using this software or reading this user guide make sure you have read understood and agreed to the license displayed on screen during the s
5. y To randomly generate a male face 1 Moveyour cursor over the Mutator button to wake up the Mutator The Mutator button Fail 2 In the Mutator drag the sdector towards the male symbol as shown The Gender Selector in the Mutator 3 Click the Randomize button The Randomize button A A new mele face appears on the mage Canvas A randomly generated male face To control how a face is generated 1 Click the Eyes F ture control to disable it The Head Feature control on the Mutator 2 Click the Randomize button All the features on the face except the eyes are replaced randomly Lesson 2 Adding Features All the features on afacein the FUS ON Room can be replaced bya feature stored in the GOO library The library for a particular feature is accessed by moving your cursor over a tool in the Face palette The Face palette contains the six tools that control each of the features on the face Head Mouth Eyes Nose Hair and Facial Hair y To replace a feature using the Face tools 1 Drag your cursor over the Mouth tool Four little controls called Library controls appear around the tool The Mouth tool with its Library controls displayed 2 Click the upper left library control to display the CO symbol This tals SuperGOO that you want to add a female mouth The Gender library control g a A of symbol indicates that you want to add a male mouth Jus
6. your face The cloned eyes covering the original eyes The generated face with cloned eyes 7 y To reposition cloned features GOO It 1 Click the Reposition tool In the GOO Room your pictures are treated like they re made out of The Reposition tool liquid Thetools in this room let you move that liquid around to create goofy distortions or comical caricatures out of normal images In the GOO Room you can usethe tools in the GOO brush palette to distort your picture using brushstrokes kind of like painting with water or the tools in the Effects palette to apply distortion effects To move to the GOO Room Click the GOO button at thetop of the screen Just GOO It A Tutorial 23 Lesson 1 GOOing Using Brushes 3 DragtheSizecontrol dider down to reducethesize of the brush The GOO brushes let you smear snudge twist and generally distort The Size control slider your image Each of the brushes lets you distort the image differently In this lesson you ll usethe GOO brushes to turn the face you created in the FUSION Room into a caricature To smear an area of your image 1 Click thetop set of rainbow colored buttons The GOO Brushes i palette appears 4 Movethecursor to theright corner of the mouth and pull down then to the si de and up A i 444 5 Repeat the moveon theright sideof the face The face after its been smeared Thesetools let you GOO specific portions of the image 2 Click the Smeer
7. GOOing faces and pictures has been greatly enhanced and the FUSION Room now has its own library of facial components you can pick from What s New If you re a user of GOO this section will give you a head start on locating learning and taking advantage of SuperGOO s new features The GOO Room The GOO Room still lets you play with images as if they were made out of liquid paint but several improvements have been made to the basic GOO functions e Zooming and Panning e Customizable Brush Sizes and Functions e Support for non square images images at any aspect ratio e Support for Alpha Channds The FUSION Room Before you could usethe FUSION Room to merge two pictures together to make a new goofy image Now the FUSION Room lets you create faces using a host of facial features You can add a nose mouth eyes and hair to a blank face to create your own original face These features are included in a library that comes with the application H Installation This section provides instructions for installing the Windows and Macintosh versions of your SuperGOO software Follow the instructions appropriate for your system Windows Installation Minimum System Requirements SuperGOO runson any PC compatible computer with the following minimum configuration e Pentium Processor e Windows 95 or higher e Windows NT 4 0 or higher e 16MBFreeRAM e 25MBHD Specefor Install e 40MB FreeHD Space after Install e CD ROM
8. Microsoft Windows User s Guide respective y Conventions This user guide is for both Windows and Macintosh users By convention Macintosh commands precede Windows commands in thetext For example Command Ctrl H is equivalent to the Macintosh Command and the Windows Ctrl H For simplicity the term folder refers to directories as well as folders The Kal s SuperGOO interface for both platforms is identical unless otherwise specified i 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 8 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide 10 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide What is SuperGOO Kai s SuperGOO is the latest addition to the ScanSoft line of creative entertainment tools Like its predecessor Kai s Power GOO SuperGOO isa fun image distortion tool Using SuperGO O s tools and effects you can stretch stir bulge or twirl pictures to create funhouse mirror distortion effects Using the libraries that come with SuperGOO you can create your own realistic faces Once distorted an image can be printed or saved for usein ohoto editing or compositing software or in a desktop publishing application Multiple distortion effects can be combined to create animated movies in QuickTimeo
9. a font from the menu Enter your text into the window Vortex Wave 4 Click oneof the alignment buttons to create left right or center aligned text 38 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide 5 Click oneof the style buttons to change thetext style B Bold Working with Keyframes Italic S Drop Shadow i N i i An animation is created by saving different images to the Keyframe 6 Click thecolor 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 all the images in your GOOvie and lets you add or removeframes Click the Ok icon to dclosethe dialog Your text appears on the from the animation I mage Canvas Click theA B or C icons to resize 9 Dragthetext to a position on the image and dick to placeit Making GOOvies Making movies of your GOO distortions is so easy that you ll undoubtedly spend a great deal of time creating many GOO animations GOOvies This section contains all of the information gt eects you ll need to create interesting and amusing movies To save the current image into an empty keyframe 1 MovetheKeyframe controller over an empty keyframe 2 Click on the empty keyframe To replace a keyframe image with the current image 1 Click on the down arrow in the bottom canter of the Keyframe Controller 2 Click theempty keyframe The GOO Room 39 v To create duplicate keyframes 1 Mov
10. can also sizethe brush usingtheup and down arrow keyson your keyboard Usethe up arrow key to increasethe brush size and the down arrow key to reduce brush size y To set the flow of a brush Drag up over the Flow control to increase the flow of the brush and down to decrease The higher the flow the more liquid the image appears i e colors streak more and distort easily The Flow control Mirroring a Brush Effect Usingthemirror control you can mirror a brush effect ather vertically or horizontally When theVertical Mirror button is enabled brushstrokes are mirrored along a vertical axis When the Horizontal 34 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide Mirror button is active brushstrokes are mirrored along a horizontal axis If both buttons are enabled brushstrokes are mirrored both horizontally and vertically An effect mirrored horizontally vertically and along both axes Using the GOO Brush Palette The GOO Brush Palette consists of nine different distortion brushes Reset Grow Shrink Move Smear Smudge Nudge Mirror Toggle Smooth and UnGOoO To activate the GOO Brush palette Click thetop set of rainbow colored brush icons The GOO Brush palette appears on top of the mage Canvas The GOO Brush palette icons To use a GOO brush Click on oneof the brush buttonsto activateit and then drag over the image You can also switch between brushes by pressing the right or left arrow keys on your k
11. features stored in the GOO libraries or you can import your own pictures and use them to create anew face Thetoolsin the FUSION Room let you add different types of fadal features and access the GOO libraries Each of the features on the face is placed on a separate layer meaning that you can reposition or scale a feature without affecting the rest of the face These layers let you move features around and experiment with different combinations The FUSION Room Image Canvas Clone window Edit palette Face palette Mutator button Reset button Memory Frames Image Canvas Thelmage Canvas is where you combine and rearrangefacial features As you change the face the canvas automatically updates to display your edits The FUSION Room 43 Face Palette The Face Palette contains controls for adding the different features that make up the face Each tool controls a different facial feature Library Controls Each Facetool has four controls that let you view the different facial features available in the library Edit Palette This a palette contains tools for editing the position and scaleof a sel ected feature Mutator The Mutator lets you randomly combine different fadal features You can control which features are randomized and whether those features are male or female Memory Frames These frames let you store the faces you create in the mage Canvas Working in the FUSION Room TheFUSION Room works
12. the application You can click this pictureto move to different parts of Kai s SuperGOO To move between rooms 1 Launch Kai s SupeGOO 2 Click the FUSION button at thetop of the screen The FUSION Room appears The FUSION Room showing a face in the Image Canvas Just GOO It A Tutorial 17 Making Faces In this section you ll learn how to use the features of the FUSION Room to create a face The FUSION Room works like a police sketch artist s tool This room lets you take different facial features like eyes noses and mouths and mix then 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 In this section you ll create a face by combining features from the FUSION library Lesson 1 Making a Random Face SuperGOO s Mutator lets you sit back and watch as Kal s SuperGOO quickly generates a random face by combining facial features from the FUSION Libraries Thereareaseries of buttons called Feature controls on the Mutator that represents the different facial features you can apply to a face When a button is highlighted the features it reoresents are randomly generated When a button is not highlighted the feature is not induded in the randomization In this lesson you ll learn how to generate a random face and control how that face is generated using the Feature controls 18 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide
13. tool The Smear Tool 24 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide 5 Place your cursor on theleft side of the boy s nose press down and pull your mouseto the left dowly To smudge an area of your image The face after its been smudged 1 Saet the Smudge tool N The Smudge tool 2 Click the up arrow to increasethe sze of the brush Dragthe Flow control up to increasetheflow of the Snudgetool Higher flows make the image act like it s more liquid Colors vV a To move an area of your image streak easier and the picture distorts quickly Keep the flow low if you don t want to distort your picturetoo much 1 Sdect the Smear tool 4 Click the Mirror Vertical button When this button is enabled any changes you maketo oneside of the face are mirrored onto the other side The Smear tool The Mirror Vertical button Just GOO It A Tutorial 25 2 Placeyour cursor on therright sdeof his forehead and push up 2 Placeyour cursor at the center of the right eye and gently push and to the right up The face after its been smeared The eyes after they ve been nudged N V To nudge an area of your image To GOOplicate an area of your image 1 Sdect the Nudgetool 1 Sdect the GOOplicete tool The Nudge tool 2 Placeyour cursor over the newly GOOed right eye and begin GOOing 26 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide 3 TheeveunGOOs but in its new location The eyes after they ve been GOOplicated
14. Drive e 16 bit video e 14 Monitor Installation V To install your SuperGOO software 1 Insert the SuperGoo CD ROM discinto your CD ROM drive 2 If you areusing Windows NT 4 0 saet File menu gt Run If you are using Windows 95 select Start menu gt Run 3 Typetheleater corresponding to your CD ROM drive followed by setup for example type d setup if usngtheD drive Click the OK button then follow the prompts 4 If inthemain install window click Install Please be certain that you have at least 25 MB of free space on your hard disk before you install Macintosh Installation Minimum System Requirements SuperGOO runs on any Macintosh computer with at least the following configuration e Power Macintosh e MacOS 7 6 1 or higher 6 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide e 16MB RAM dlocated to application e 25MBHD Spacefor Install e 40MB Free HD Space after Install e CD ROM Drive e 16 bit video e 14 Monitor Installation V To install your SuperGOO software 1 Insert the SuperGoo CD ROM discinto your CD ROM drive 2 Double click on the SuperGoo Install icon to begin installation Installation Tips Windows 95 NT 4 0 Please be sure that e Your operation system isWin95 NT 4 0 SuperGoo will not run on Win 3 x or NT 3 x x e Your display is set to a minimum of 16 bit colors 65 000 colors We recommend 24 bit true color e Your areusinga Pentium processor or Pentium class proce
15. ION Room to mix and match facial features to create your own faces MetaCreations Once you ve created a face you can take it into the GOO Room and distort it just like you would any other image 12 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide The GOO Room The GOO Room is where you distort images to create your own custom pictures The images you use in this room can be imported from a variety of sources or opened from the GOO library Use the GOO Room to distort imported images Once ope you can usethe GOO tools to distort bulge Snear or twirl portions of the image or usethe GOO effects to twirl rotate stretch or squeeze the entire image You can also save your picture at various stages and then play the images together as a movie or GOOvie The Option Buttons Thethree buttons that appear at the top of each room let you move between rooms and access import and export functions The Option buttons The Basics of Working with Kai s SuperGOO Kal s SuperGOO is an incredibly easy to use program Most of Kai s SuperGOO s features are applied by a simple dick and drag The best way to get the most out of Kai s SuperGOO is to just click a tool and try it Before you start exploring there are a few basic procedures you should know These procedures apply to the entire application Working with Rooms You can move between rooms using the Option buttons at the top of the room When you move from the FUSION Room to the GO
16. O room the picture on the mage Canvas moves with you This way you can GOO a face you created in the FUS ON Room To move between rooms Inthe GOO Room dick the FUSION button at thetop of the screen to move to the FUSION Room In the FUSION Room dick the GOO button to moveto the GOO Room Working with Files Kai s SuperGOO lets you import your own pictures of friends and family to distort or combineto create wacky pictures You can open a filein BMP PICT Photoshop TIFF JPEG GIF or FlashPix y To open a picture 1 Click theln button at thetop of the screen and choose Open from the popup menu The Open dialog appears 2 Locetethe picture file you want to use and click Open The picture appears on the mage Canvas Importing Files using Plug ins Kal s SuperGOO can import images in a number of standard image formats You can extend Kai s SuperGOO s import capabilities using third party plug ins A plug in isa component that connects with an application and extends its capabilities In order to usea plug in from an outside devdoper you haveto place it in afolder that SuperGOO can access Getting to Know Kai s SuperGOO 13 y To install plug ins In Finder or the Windows desktop drag the plug in applicati on s icon in to the SuperGOO plugins folder V To import a picture using plug ins 1 Click the In button at thetop of the screen and chooseImport Via Plug Ins gt Set Destination for Acquire
17. e You can dick the ot or Q button on the Face tool to switch between male and female features 4 Click thefacein the center of the mage Canvas to hidethe 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 46 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide y To hide show a facial feature Click thetool for the features you want to hide For example dick the Eyes tool if you want to hide the eyes Click the tool again to make the feature reappear Using the Edit Palette The Edit palette provides tools for rearranging and resizing the facial features in the mage Canvas The palette consists of six tools that let you import repostion resize rotate flip vertically and flip horizontally Each feature is on its own layer so you can edit one feature without affecting the rest of the face You can click the Reset button at any timeto undo your changes y To resize a facial feature 1 Click the Reszetool one Vee D 2 Drag over thef ture you want to resize Drag away from the center of the featureto increase its size or drag towards its center Reposition Tool to decrease its ize Resize Tool We cantare MD To rotate a facial feature Rotate Tool 1 Click the Rotate tool Stretch Vertical Tool Stretch Horizontal Tool n To stretch a feature vertically 1 Click th
18. e Stretch Vertical tool 2 Click the feature you want to flip y To edit a feature 1 Click on the desired editing tool in the Edit palette vy To stretch a feature horizontally 2 Dragove thefadal feature you want to edit The Edit palette 2 Dragove the feature you want to rotate Drag right to rotate clockwise or left to rotate counter dockwise 1 Click the Stretch Horizontal tool 2 Click the feature you want to flip To reposition a facial feature 1 Click the Reposition tool in the Edit palette 2 Dragafacial featurein the mage Canvas The feature moves in the direction you drag The FUSION Room 47 Randomizing Features TheMutaetor located in the botton right corner of thescresn lets you randomize the features of the facein the mage Canvas When you use the Mutator features are taken from the GOO libraries and randomly combined on the face The Mutator Gender Selector Feature controls Randomize button You can control the mutation or randomization process by choosing ather male or female features When you choose eather male or female the random features are constrained to the selected gender For example if you sdect male only random malefeatures are applied to the face You can also constrain the randomization process Using the Feature controls you can choose exactly which features are randomized When you disable a feature it is not randomized You can use these controls
19. efile you want to use and click Open The picture appears in the center of the screen You can import a file using ather athird 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 moreon both importing methods Viewing an Image While you re GOOing your picture you ll often find it useful to move to different areas of the image or enlarge the portion you re working on The Zoom and Pan controls let you change your view of the image Zooming enlarges or shrinks the image When you usethe Zoom tools you re not changing the image just the way you see it Panning lets you move a different portion of the image onto the mage Canvas Again the Pan tool doesn t effect the image only how you see it y To zoom in out of the image Click the Zoom In button to enlarge the image Click the Zoom Out button to shrink it The Zoom In and Out buttons V To pan the image Drag the cursor over the Pan button The image moves in the direction you drag The Pan button Setting Up Brushes All the GOOing features in the GOO room are applied using brushes You can set a number of parameters for each brush y To set the size of a brush Drag over the Size control to set the brush size Drag up to increase the brush size and down to decrease it The Size control The GOO Room 33 You
20. esson 4 Cloning Features Using the Clone tool you can combine the features from an existing image with the face you created in the FUSION Room This way you can combine your friends faces with the one you re creating Just GOO It A Tutorial 21 Features are combined using a process called cloning When you clone The MYFACE appears in a done window This image will act as something a portion of a source image is duplicated onto a the source for your doning destination image The MYFACE image in a clone window Oncethefeetures are cloned onto your face you can reposition or edit them using the Edit tools In this lesson the source image is a file called MYFACE and the destination is the face in the mage Canvas U To clone a features from an image 1 Click theClonetool 3 In the Image Canvas movethe cursor over the eyes Notice that an Origin Sdector icon appears on the source image The Clone tool The Origin Selector icon on the source image 2 Locatethefile Documentation Tutorial MYFACE and dick iv Open p This icon lets you know which part of the source image will be doned onto the mage Canvas 4 Makesurethat the Origin Sdector is positioned over the eyes of the MYFACE image 22 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide 5 In the Image Canvas drag your mouse over the eyes in small 2 Dragthecloned eyes up dightly so that they cover the original circles As you drag the eyes from the MY FACE image appear on eyes
21. etheKeyframe controller over the keyframe you want to duplicate 2 Click the down arrow in thetop left corner of the Keyframe controller Using the Control Slider To create smooth animations software programs have traditionally created and stored hundreds of intermediate image frames using a process called 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 sdected keyframe One of these intermediate images can then be loaded into an empty keyframe to create amore gradual transition than could be created by manually trying to soften distortions The Control Slider 40 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide Dragging the Control Slider up moves through the intermediate images toward the current image dragging down moves back toward your original image Playing Your Movies Once you have saved images into at least two keyframes you can play your GOOvie using the Movie Camera The movie will automatically loop from the last keyframe to the first for an unending animation The Movie Camera To play a GOOvie Click the Movie Camera To stop a GOOvie Click the mouse button Controlling Playback The Playback Slider located below the Movie Camera is used to set the speed at which you wa
22. eyboard To undo a GOO brush PressCommand Ctrl Z Smear Painting with Smear creates high levas of distortion pressure for creating quick dramatic distortions Smudge Smudge affects a slightly snaller area than Smear but with decreased pressure Use it to create small subtle distortion effects Nudge The extreandy small size and high pressure of Nudge makes it useful for creating a finger painting effect Twirl Twirl applies a small twirling distortion to an area of your image Bulge Pinch Creates a bulging distortion on an area of the image Decreasethe flow of the brush and it creates a pinching effect Noise Noise applies graphic noiseto an area of your image GOOplicate GOOplicate reproduces the original image in a different area of your image UnGOO UnGOO quickly undo the distortion effects of the GOO brushes It is the ultimate sdective undo brush The GOO Room 35 Smear Smudge Nudge Twirl Noise GOOplicate UnGOO 36 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide Using the GOO Effects Palette The GOO Effects palette consists of nine different global distortion effects indluding Bulge Twirl Rotate Stretch Squeeze Spike Noise and UnWind v To activate the GOO Effects palette Click the bottom set of rainbow colored brush icons The GOO Effects palette appears on top of the mage Canvas The GOO Effects palette icons To use a GOO Effect Click on oneo
23. f the brush buttons to apply the effect to the entire image Click and drag within your image to apply the effect Squeeze Squeeze pinches your image inward or outward Wave Wave produces wave like distortions over your image Twirl Twirl causes your image to twirl clockwise or counte clockwise ZigZag ZigZag causes your image to distort in concentric waves Ripple Ripple causes your image to distort in waves that ressemble a ripple of Water Spike Spike adds a radiant effect to your image which resembles rays extending outward Tiling Tiling lets you zoom out of your image As you move further away SuperGOO tiles the image to fill the mage Canvas If you drag to the left or right over the image it rotates Stretch Stretch pulls your image vertically and horizontally Vortex Vortex pulls the edges of your image towards the center as if the picture was being sucked into a black hole The GOO Room 37 Adding Text In SuperGOO you can add alayer of text over top of your image The Text dialog lets you enter your text string sdect a font type style alignment and color The Text dialog Ripple Twirl Clubhouse Sincethetext is on its own layer it s not affected by the GOO brushes or effects You can position text anywhere on the image Squeeze Spike To add text 1 Click the ABC icon on theright sideof thescreen The Text dialog appears 2 Click the font popup and choose
24. f the spike effect The face in the first frame 28 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide 3 Click the ZigZag button on the Effects palette The ZigZag effect applied to the face y To play a GOOvie Click the Movie Camera icon on theright side of the mage Canvas Your stored images are played in the Image Canvas Click the mouse button to stop the playback V To control the playback speed 4 Click on the next empty frame in the filmstrip to save the Vortex Drag the Playback dider down towards theturtle to slow down effect as a keyframe the playback of your movie 5 Click the Stretch button to apply the stretch effect You can also drag the dider up towards the rabbit to speed up playback The Stretch effect applied to the face Moving On Wal that s about it Once you ve completed the tutorial you re ready to explorethe rest of SuperGOO In fact that s probably the best way of learning how SuperGOO works explore Just click on things and gee what they do If you like the effect click on it again If you don t 6 Click thecente of thethird frameto savethe Stretch effect asa dick on something dse keyframe The face in the third frame Just GOO It A Tutorial 29 30 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide The GOO Room How the GOO Room Works The GOO Room is where you ll distort images and create GOOVvies Theroom provides a series of tools that let you play with the images as if they were made ou
25. likea police sketch artist s tool You combine different facial features like eyes noses and hair to create a new face You can usethe facial features stored in the GOO libraries or inter change features from your own pictures 44 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide Opening and Importing Pictures In the FUSION Room you can ather create a face from scratch by combining features or you can apply new features to an existing face V To open a file 1 Click the tablet handleon the left side of the screen Theln Out tablet appears 2 Click the Open text labad The Open dialog appears 3 Locatethe picture file you want to use and click Open The picture appears in the center of the screen You can import afileusing ather athird party plug in or by scanning it directly into SuperGOO Refer to Importing Files using Plug ins on page 13 or Scanning Pictures on page 14 for moreon both importing methods Layered images like those produced by many image editing applications are flattened unless you open a FOO file the FUSION Room s native format Using the Face Palette Each of thetoolsin the Face palettelet you changea specific feature on the face Using thetools you can change the Head Mouth Nose Eyes Hair and Accessories Face palette tools eo Accessories Tool Qq Hair Tool Eyes Tool Mouth Tool Head Tool Changing Features When you activate a tool four small controls appear arou
26. nd it These controls let you search through the GOO libraries to find the right facial feature You can usethe controls to move through the library one feature at atimeor display a number of features all at once A Face palette tool with the Library controls displayed 9 To change a facial feature 1 Click the Facetool for the feature you want to change For example if you want to change the nose click the Nose tool Four Library controls appear around the activated tool 2 Click the uppe lett library control to change the gender of the facial feature Therearedifferent libraries for male and female features of means that you re using male features Q means that you re using female features 3 Click thecontrol in thelowe right to move forward through the library or the control in the lower left to move backwards Every time you click the control anew feature appears on the face The FUSION Room 45 X To change a facial feature using the library previews 1 Click the Facetool for the feature you want to change For example if you want to change the nose click the Nosetool Four Library controls aopear around the activated tool 2 Click the upper right library control A series of preview for the sel ected feature aopear around the image in the mage Canvas A series of library previews displayed over the Image Canvas 3 Click the preview of the feature you want to use The featureis applied to the fac
27. nt your animation to play Drag the Playback Slider up towards the rabbit to increase the speed of your animation or down towards the turtle to decrease the speed The Playback Slider Saving Animations Your GOOvie animations can be saved as QuickTime and Sequenced PICT Macintosh or AVI and Sequenced BMP Windows files Once you ve saved your animation it can be used in other multi media applications y To save an animation 1 2 Makesureyou have at least two keyframes in the Keyframe palette Click theIn button at the top of the screen and choose Make Moviefrom the popup menu The Make Movie dialog appears 10 Choose a Format popup menu and choose a file format for your movie Click the Settings popup to display compression options for your movie Set the desired Compression options The options available depend on the Compressor you sdect Refer to your Macintosh or Windows system documentation for more on these compressors Click OK to exit the options dialog Click the arrow icon next to the File Location text laba The Save dialog appears Choose a location for your movie and dick Save Drag the Size dider to set the dimensions of your animation Click the checkmark icon to create a movie file The GOO Room 41 42 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide The FUSION Room How the Fusion Room Works The Fusion Room lets you create faces by combining different facal features You can choose from a host of
28. oftware installation process 1998 1999 ScanSoft Inc 9 Centennial Drive Peabody M A 01960 SuperGOO User Guide Table of Contents Wedcometo SuperGOO 5 What s New 1 0 0 00 5 EE SEA L k ON 43k xena kak kar wna ee r ran 5 WindowslInstallation 5 Macintosh Installation 6 Installation Tips 6 About This User Guide 7 COnNVEeNntiONS s xak k l xal Wr kk y Fi Technical SUPPO a aae 8 Chapter 1 Getting to Know Kai s SuperGOO 11 What is Supa GOO 4 nannu Li What can do with Kal s SuperGOO 005 11 ExploringtheKai s SuperGOO Workspace kk kk kk 11 TheFUSION Room 12 TheGOO Rom 12 TheOption Buttons 13 The Basics of Working with Kai s SuperGOO kk kk 13 Working with Rooms 13 Working with Files 4 13 Saving Pictures aannnnnannnrnnnno 14 Printing Pictures 0 00 eee ees 15 Chapter 2 Just GOO It A Tutorial 17 WACOME 1 a52 42 54 2 na yaya es 17 Getting Started 20 eee eee 17 Lesson 1 Moving Between Rooms 17 NM aKING Faces e 5a 4x2 cae a aware bee 18 Lesson 1 M aking a Random Face 18 Lesson 2 Adding Features 19 Lesson 3 Editing Features 20 Lesson 4 Cloning Features 21 GOO Ms gt 5524 2 X ate Roe ek Dan dea A heken Beats 23 Less
29. on 1 GOOing Using Brushes 24 Lesson 2 GOOing Using Effects 27 MakingGOOVics 0c cece eee 28 MOANNE OR xa x 5 a ane baled 5 29 Chapter 3 The GOO Room 31 How the GOO RoomWorks 31 Workingin the GOO Room 32 Openingor Importing mages 32 Viewingan mage 2055 33 Setting Up Brushes 33 Mirroring a Brush Effect 34 UsingtheGOO Brush Palette 34 Using the GOO Effects Paete 36 AHANO TOT 2 sk a ka trees ee ina k kan 38 MakingGOOVics kk kk kk eee 39 Working with Keyframes 39 Usingthe Control Sider 40 Playing Your Movies 40 Saving Animations 41 Chapter 4 The FUSION Room 43 HowtheFusion RoomWorks 43 WorkingintheFUSION Room 44 Opening and Importing Pictures 44 UsingtheFacePalette 45 Changing Features 45 Hiding Showing Features 46 Usingthe Edit Palette 46 Randomizing Features 48 Combining Features 2005 48 Saving Faces nat eh ot et oe kk kk kk kk kk 49 Using your Own Photos in the Fusion ROOM Saka 50 Contents iii iv Kai s SuperGOO j Welcome to SuperGOO Kai s SuperGOO is the evolution of thefabulously successful Kai s Power GOO the latest rdease of Liquid I mage Funware from ScanSoft nc All the fun you had
30. r AVI format for usein multimedia presentations or output directly to video 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 mages can be imported into image editing applications for additional modifications or inclusion in advertising or fine art pieces Getting to Know Kai s SuperGOO Animations can be used in multimedia authoring applications for inclusion in both on screen and video based presentations Both images and animations can be incorporated into Web pages Exploring the Kai s SuperGOO Workspace Unlike most applications that use a myriad of palettes and toolbars to display their features SuperGOO is divided into rooms There are two rooms in SuperGOO e TheFUSION Room e TheGOO Room These rooms contain all the features and functions you ll need to fully express your creativity Getting to Know Kai s SuperGOO 11 The FUSION Room TheFUSION Room works likea police sketch artist s tool It lets you combine different facial components to create your own unique faces Using the huge number of noses eyes mouths heads and hair stored in the Kal s SuperGOO library you can createalmost any face You can also incorporate features from your own photographs Use the FUS
31. r a Memory Frame Option Alt cdick the Memory Frame you want to cl ear To retrieve a face from Memory Frame Click the Memory Frame you want to use Using your Own Photos in the Fusion Room Since you can copy any feature from an imported photo into the FUSION Room you ll probably want to add features from people you know Almost any photo with afacein it can be useful in the FUSION Room Here are some tips for using photos e Images that have straight on face shots make it easier to find features to clone e Photos with little or no background make cloning just the facial components easier 50 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide When your re using a full body shot you ll need to use the Resize tool to make facial components bigger Don t be surprised if you lose image quality when you resize the features That s just the price you pay for image editing
32. s and Imports from the menu The Set Destination dialog appears 2 Saet afolder on your system where you want imported images stored 3 Click the In button again and chooseImport Via Plug Ins gt Select Plug ins Folder from the menu The Sdect Folder dialog appears 4 Locetethe folder where you ve stored your import plug ins Scanning Pictures You can scan images directly into Kai s SuperGOO using a program interface called TWAIN This interface lets Kai s SuperGOO interact directly with your scanner 14 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide y To scan a picture into Kai s SuperGOO 1 Click the n button and chooseImport via TWAIN gt Set Destination for Acquires and Imports from the menu 2 Sdect afolder where you want to store scanned images 3 Click the n button again and choose Import via TWAIN gt Select TWAIN Source The Sdect Source dialog appears 4 Sdect your scanner from thelist and click OK 5 Click theIn button again and choose mport via TWAIN gt TWAIN Acquire The TWAIN dialog appears 6 Usethedialog controls to setup and start a scan of your picture Saving Pictures You can save GOOed pictures in a number of popular image formats including BMP PICT Photoshop TIFF J PEG GIF or FlashPix Once saved a picture can be used in another image editing application or page layout application y To save a picture 1 Click the Out button and choose Save The Save dialog appears 2 Chooseafileforme
33. ssor SuperGoo will NOT run on a 486 e Thereareno ope applications other than Win95 NT4 0 of course e ThereareNO applications running in the background This includes anti virus software crash monitors or system diagnostic software Power Macintosh Please be sure that e Your operating system is 7 6 1 or higher e Your display is set to a minimum of 16 bit colors 65 000 colors We recommend 24 bit true color e You arenot runningVirtual Memory or any RAM enhancing program such as RAM Doubler e Pleasebecertain that you haveat least 25 MB of free aceon your hard disk before you install e You might receive an error message while attempting to launch SuperGoo which states The application SuperGoo could not be opened because axiom could not be found This means that the Macintosh does not have enough memory left after launching SuperGoo to load the necessary axiom extension if About This User Guide This user guide provides all the information you need to qet the most out of Kai s SuperGOO It will hap you learn the application and serve as areference as you attempt more sophisticated procedures This user guide assumes you are already familiar with basic Windows and Macintosh concepts menus dialogs and mouse operations such as clicking and dragging If you need more information on these Subjects or on the Macintosh Finder or the Windows Desktop please refer to the Macintosh User s Manual or the
34. t location and filename and click Save Printing Pictures Once you re done GOOing a picture or finished creating anew face you can print your work y 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 15 16 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide Just GOO It A Tutorial Welcome Welcome to the Kai s SuperGOO Tutorial This tutorial is desgned to teach you how to usethe 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 Each section of this tutorial is sdf contained So if you only want to learn about GOOiIng skip to the GOO lesson or if you only want to learn about fusing images jump to the Fusion lessons Don t worry thetutorial doesn t take long and who knows you might even have some fun along the way Getting Started Kal s SuperGOO is made up of two rooms The FUSION Room and the GOO Room The FUSION Room lets you create faces by combining different features The GOO Room lets you distort images using brushes and effects Before you start playing with Kai s SuperGOO there area few things you should know how to do Lesson 1 Moving Between Rooms TheMap Tablet and In Out Tablet both provide ways of switching between the two rooms The Map Tablet provides a picture that identifies all parts of
35. t GOO It A Tutorial 19 3 Click theuppe right library control A series of mouth previews appear around the face The randomly generated head surrounded by mouth previews ee ea 4 Click a mouth you like The mouth is applied to the face The randomly generated head with a female mouth 5 Click thefacein thecenter to hidethelibrary previews 20 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide Lesson 3 Editing Features Once you ve added features to your face you can rearrange then to refine your face or to create an unrealistic funny face Thetools in the Edit palette let you reposition resize rotate and flip facial features y To reposition a feature 1 Click the Reposition tool in the Edit palette The Reposition tool 2 Drag the noseon theface 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 ds To resize a feature 1 Click the Resize tool The Resize tool 2 Movethecursor over the center of the nose and then drag towards the top right corner of the screen The nose enlarges Rdeasethemouse button when thenoseis about thes Zeshown The generated face with an enlarged nose v To rotate a feature 1 Click the Rotate tool The Rotate tool 2 Movethecursor over the mouth and drag to the right The mouth rotates clockwise The generated face with a rotated mouth L
36. t of liquid There are also tools that let you save your distorted image at different stages You can then create an animation or GOOvie out of your distortions The GOO Room Image Canvas GOO Brush palette Text control GOO Effects Size Flow palette controls Movie Camera Zoom Pan Controls Playback Control slider Slider Keyframe controller Keyframe palette Image Canvas Thel mage Canvas found in both the GOO and FUSION Rooms is where your selected image appears All modifications to your image are displayed herein real time The GOO Room 31 GOO Brush Palette The first set of rainbow buttons in the upper left corner of the screen shows or hides the GOO Brush Palette which contains nine different distortion brushes GOO Effects Palette The second set of rainbow buttons shows or hides the GOO Effects Palette which contains nine different distortion effects Control Slider When the GOO Palette is active the control shifts the picture between the current GOO composite and the original image Keyframe Palette When you move your mouse cursor to the bottom of the interface a set of keyframe place holders appears These place holders are used to store animation keyframes for movie or GOOvie creation A keyframe is a snapshot of your image at different stages When you string a number of keyframes together SuperGOO fills in the gaps between keyframes to create a smooth animation Keyframe Controller
37. to refine your mutations 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 48 Kai s SuperGOO User Guide y To randomize the features on a face 1 Drag the Gender Sdector to choose ather male or female features 2 Disablethe Feature control for any features you don t want randomized 3 Click the Randomize button A new set of features appear in the mage Canvas Combining Features Not only can the FUSION Room createfaces from alibrary of existing features it can also fuse the features from existing pictures to create a totally new face This way you can take pictures of your family and friends and combinethen to create fantastic new faces Features are combined using a process called cloning When you done something a portion of a source image is duplicated on to a destination image The Clonetool in the Edit palette lets you pick an area of the source image to duplicate onto the facein the mage Canvas 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 features anywhere on the image Canvas without affecting the rest of the face The Clone Window with a portion of the source image being cloned onto the Image Canvas Clone Source Clone Destination
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