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4. Let's take a more in-depth look at some of these commands. They're pretty self-explanatory for the most part. 'Automatic multiple balls' let's you flood your picture with multiple images, while if the 'Single ball or bubble' button is checked you will get a single orb shaped object on your image. Select 'Automatic multiple balls' and watch what happens to the preview. Voila! Instant bubbles :) Notice the 'non-intersecting' option in the Balls or Bubbles Type drop down menu (see below). This appears to be the default.
While you're there, play around and change the settings. There are three to choose from altogether, 'Intersecting', 'Non-Intersecting', and 'Overlapping'. What they do is literally what they claim. The bubbles intersect, overlap, or stay independant of each other. This is what I came up with when I played around (below):
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Intersecting |
Non-Intersecting |
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'Coverage' simply means how much of your image is covered in bubbles. The lower the setting on the slider, the fewer the bubbles. The higher the setting, the more bubbles that cover the image. 'Average size' controls their size, and 'Size Variation' lets you control the difference between size...the lower the slider setting, the smaller the difference, the higher the setting, the more obvious the difference.......you get my drift :) Have a good play around while you're there and have fun with it. When you're ready, click on the 'reset to default' icon in the top right hand corner.
(Note: this could change the colour setting....if it does, that's no problem, just click the 'Surface' tab again, and change the colour to red again like we did before, then hit 'Shape' to come back).
5. OK now we've had a good play around with the Multiple Bubbles, let's see what just one single bubble looks like. If it's not already selected, select 'Single bubble or ball' (hitting the default button should have automatically selected this setting, but if not, select it). Now we see what a single bubble looks like.....hmmmmm.....pretty boring really, huh? :).
All this has just been to give you a little taste of what it can do. But what now?
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