JonathanEdwardDolnier

This maybe a little odd for me to explain but I will try anyways. In the past I have made Visual Novel like panels on PhotoPad like these for example in which I have added them in on VideoPad in which I dub the soundtrack in to make Video projects like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5QP9Jch4fk But since PhotoPad does not have a "Animate Text" option I thought I go with ExpressAnimate here. While I did realize a couple of things such as... 1. For best results use .jpeg and .png images, oh sure one can use .gif images but they will only last on the screen for like a second or two. 2. Put the story background with the Characters in there on the upper center part of the text screen. (Basically use pictures like these for example.) And have the text on the regular background area in the Animation Canvas. Since placing text in a picture is a bit difficult. I get all that, but I wanted to add in Animated (namely Typewritten) text in the animation. Problem is I can't get the text to fully stay on the screen even if I made the text rather small, and when I do make the text small there is a chance its rather garbled. So to make a long story short how do I get Animated Text to fully stay on the screen? My apologies if I'm not using this program correctly as I am a bit of a newbie here but still I just thought I ask.

Lately I'm starting to wonder if maybe I'm overrelying on VideoPad for my Video Projects, how so you might ask? Well... A. Over this past year or so I have been using VideoPad to make Retro-Themed Voice Acting Fancast Videos for certain Video Games. (Retro-Themed meaning so I can use folks who are dead now but were alive & well when the game came out.) I made video series; like these... https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl0yJw2nDnsu5X1_D-yAQEqzEAOpzlv21 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl0yJw2nDnss2nRhrcPVkE2s337cNfFHQ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl0yJw2nDnsuLxhUjcryMqVa61UFkD8cq https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl0yJw2nDnstIkWVaFY2S-1lJ5zqP9WWW In which I do like on how I can use the "Add Picture" feature in the regular Text screens. But I do wish it was easier to resize the pictures since any picture that is over 100x100 in measurements ends up being too large to fit on the screen. (In which I would have to make the Character pics very small in order to not be enlarged too much in VideoPad.) However I am starting to wonder if maybe PhotoStage Slideshow Producer would be a better fit for these types of videos in the future. B. In the past I have tried to make little Video Productions that are styled in a Visual Novel way. What do I mean you ask? Well take a look here for example... https://youtu.be/S5QP9Jch4fk And I have done this for other projects such as Crazy Plot Twist Theater: Street Fighter and One Piece: Who Will Save Robin from Aokiji? and the like. Where I would make these still image panels from PhotoPad in which I would traditionally use a patchwork of a bunch of character portraits and such. (But I am open to the possibility of using programs like for 2D Models like Kisekae which is what I did here. Or to potentially use 3D Models from programs like VRoid and XNALara.) In which I would take these panels from PhotoPad and dub in the soundtrack at VideoPad. In which I did recently think of the idea of making the panels via Videopad. In which I could make the story panels like the ones here at... https://archiveofourown.org/works/634470/chapters/1148170 And add in the typewritten text underneath so it would appear to be more like a actual Visual Novel. But the only problem is that in VideoPad while there is a "Typewriter" text function but it does not have a "Add Picture" feature with it. So tell me could Express Animate Software be a better fit here? Namely so I can make these story panels but be able to add in animated text underneath? I admit I'm not very good at drawing with a computer mouse in which my previous efforts were... so-so at best, would that be a problem? Can I be able to use things like Character Sprites/Portraits and/or 2D or 3D Character models on a background and add text in underneath or no? I guess to make a long story short, would these programs be a bit more helpful to me? Or should I just stick with VideoPad for all of my Video Projects?

Okay I get that but is there options for the Image Overlay to you know not overlay? In other words... Pictures have to stay in the "canvas" picture. Pictures can't overlay on the pictures? And things like that. Because doing the drag & drop is one thing but having to position them just right can be such a hassle though.

I have tried using Collage Maker in the recent past but when its being used for 20+ character pics I have one little issue. Namely it keeps randomly deciding what layout the pictures should be and have the pics randomly change sizes. Is there any way I can make a collage in collage maker and have all the character pics be the same size? Because when I make Character Collages I try to get them all neatly organized in rows like this for example.... https://i.imgur.com/7Yq2Iag.jpg But trying to drag the pics to fit them in just right can be quite the hassle. (Namely in order to prevent the pics from overlapping each-other and making it look sloppy.) So is there any way I can make collages in Collage Maker and have all the pics in the same sizes? If not I understand but I just thought I ask at this point.

Ladies & Gentlemen I'm aware of the "Colorize" tool in the Retouch section and I have used it in some of my projects in the past. However there is one issue that I have had in mind. What do I do if I want to colorize something into white. Like take this for example... https://i.imgur.com/yOE0Ucz.jpg How do I change the Dark Purple Jacket into a white one (that would match the blouse)? This won't be the only case where I would need to colorize an object white but how do I colorize a part of a picture white without losing all the other colors in a picture?

Well good news nevermind on that, apparently this little situation has stopped since later on last month. In which the fact that browsers such as Firefox seem to not be using WEBP on images in general is probably a factor here.

Hi I used to be able to drag & drop .gif & .png pictures that had transparent backgrounds and have the background stay transparent. Unfortunately lately when I have dragged a photo with a Transparent background it would autofill the background into black. I'm trying to stop this (and yes I am aware of the "Select" feature and the Color Removal function in which both are a bit finicky and can remove colors that I do not want removed even if I have them at the lowest settings). How do I load a picture with a Transparent Background onto PhotoPad without having to save it on my computer first? Apparently there is something wrong with my computer's clipboard settings as pictures seem to lost their transparency when I copy & paste them into programs like MS Paint and NCH PhotoPad. What do I do? Unofrtunately for some reason PhotoPad's Help Section doesn't mention anything about pasting images from the clipboard.

Wait a minute I realized that I also need MixPad as well, do I have to pay over a $100 to get all 3 programs even with their discounted prices or can I get them for a bundle for lower?

I want to be able to download both RecordPad and WavePad because I have potential use for them both. But can I download them both in one package? Or will I have to download both programs for two different prices? (Which might be a little too costly for me). So can I download them both at once? Or will I have to download them both as seperate packages.