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Re: What is this effect called? How do you achieve it?
Subject:Re: What is this effect called? How do you achieve it? From:linda_sims -at- vanguard -dot- com To:"Rick Stone" <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com> Date:Mon, 8 May 2006 07:56:52 -0400
"Rick Stone" <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com> wrote on 05/05/2006 11:19:37 PM:
> Hi Linda
>
> Indeed you are correct in that SnagIt does seem to get me partway there.
I
> had already tried that before posting. I do see that SnagIt can blur the
> background as well as offset the close up view, but it fails to offer
any of
> the shading between the zoomed out view and the smaller view.
>
> Thanks... Rick :)
>
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> Subject: Re: What is this effect called? How do you achieve it?
>
>
> > SnagIt Editor (7.x) does most of what you want. On the Effects menu,
click
> > Spotlight/Magnify.
I wasn't sure about the shading, since I've never tried to do that. If you
find a program that can do that shading bit, let me know. I've seen it in
magazines, and it's pretty nifty.
Lin Sims
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