Hi
It's a rainy day at this mill and the doors are tightly shut. Can you open the doors and show us what is happening inside, or even cut away the whole wall and give us a perfect view of the interior?
Anything goes as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.
Anyone is welcome to have a go - whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert.
There are no prizes - just the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun.
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Have fun
Dave
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Rista12 wrote
What I have been waiting for is for some genius to set the water wheel in motion. After all, the spray is already there.
Doable, but a bit of work. It would be easy to do the outside face using the method I described for the clock face, and you'd only need enough frames for one eight of a resolution.
The problem comes with giving it depth because it would be a separate animation, and you would need to manually sync the new layers to existing frames. Helped again by the one eight revolution thing, so maybe 20 frames. You could copy the Group with the face layers and move the group to align with the inside face. Clip a curves layer to the group to darken it. I don't think the copied layers would maintain the frame sync though, but it might do, and 20 frames wouldn't be too bad a job to sync. It helps if your layers have numbers that match the appropriate frame.
The blades/buckets would only need the lighter outside face animating, and you'd need to do this manually with all eight buckets on twenty layers (so you could sync them to existing frames). The water would be fairly easy, but would also need 20 layers so you could adjust the fall (height) for each layer. I think I'd paint some white splatter on the layers after making them to give them some life.
If I can get an hour on Photoshop later, I'll have a go out of interest, but we have builders all round the house, and my Chris is keeping me busy. 
I'm doing my afternoon shift at Citizens Advice right now, and I'm glad to get out of the house — even if I don't have Photoshop here.
That's Okay - it's a Southern Hemisphere clock
I'll throw my ring into the hat. (Did somebody say make the wheel move?)
Thanks for the fun image and concept Dave.
Regards,
PG
Outstanding Pete, and really quite funny. 
This is not a full on job as I left out the blades, and I really must get to grips with Illustrator, as I had to think about how to do the wheel face. Only nine frames because of the eight spokes — it would have been a mission to do otherwise.
Nice Trevor . Mind you I think the idea was to open the doors, not brick them up !
I'm glad to see some images flying in now. I was worried about this one when we got off to a slow start at the weekend. Keep them coming.
If anyone has an image for this coming weekend let me know. If not I'll dig out another one.
Dave
Pete, I've realized that you might be thinking that the inside of the wheel is the shadow. I darkened it more than I should of because it hid that I had not put the blades/buckets, but I have added those now. I like the water at the bottom, which is from the still with some KW splatter added randomly to each frame. The water at the top, not so much so, but it owes me a couple of hours already, and real life calls.
I took a slightly different approach and made a printer :
Edit: After having trouble with the you tube embedded video playing on to other videos I've halved the frame-rate (literally deleting every other frame) and exported as a GIF
Dave
I've just read through this thread and we have had some twists and turns this week. At first I was concerned that I'd made it too hard, but I obviously under-estimated the skill and imagination in our forum!
Starting with Trevor's electric cars, then a hamster wheel, we moved on to Rista's sauna and UssNorway's tap and Steampunk guage. We then moved through various clocks ,including Semaphoric's cuckoo clock and Trevor's "down under" clock, through Pete's supercharged Disney wheel and then into moving images after Rista threw us an extra challenge to make the wheel move.
There is still time for more before we start a new challenge on Friday. Anyone is welcome to have a go - come and join us
Dave
Am I going to be first in, last out? It's Friday here, but I'll squeeze this last one in, and the water wheel has been saying riverboat paddle almost from day 1, and you'll know how it is. If you see it, you have to draw, illustrate, composite it or whatever makes your boat float. Which is a bit of a tall order in this case. I've heard of concrete boats, but a stone boat would leave Archimedes still scratching is scholarly Greek head.
It's also been a useful exercise with getting to grips with Flaming Pear's Flood 2, but still some work to do with making angles work. It has a 'Spin' slider which tilts the reflection horizon, but the reflection is always perpendicular to the horizon, so you have to FT > Skew to realign it. That leaves a wee triangular hole, but CAF fixes that. You never stop learning with Photoshop.
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