If you're new to this sort of thing, you may wish get the active tutorials (Flash format) available at the site - this even though the still Examples tutorials that come with the program are well done too.īottom line: If you want to turn stills into mini movies using very tweakable water effects, you get professional grade for a wonderful non-price - and its a blast to use. The Baseline option also greatly helps get realistic reflections. Now it includes rain, rain puddles and snow effects. I just recently upgraded to v.2 and its features vastly improved the flexibility of this already great program. Whether you are a newbie to graphics and image manipulation or someone (like me} with pro graphics experience and growing video editing skills, with just a little time and effort, you'll pull of some stunning stuff in various formats (web to film). I think with some work it will improve, mainly in render times and preview hopefully. Unless it simply wouldn't rescale for me but I'm fairly sure I tried everything.įor a free program, it has a lot to offer and again, it's free. So when you have a smaller image, you really can't preview what it looks like when blown up so large. Tried to scale the image in main window to view what it would look like at original size, would not allow me to. The final render wasn't what I expected, even after setting higher render options. Waiting to see the animation on a 200x125 image took far too long and can't imagine if it was a standard image size like 800X600. On the flip side, it seems extremely doggy compared to what it was, save times seem to have increased for a few second gif or. It's easy to select an area and apply the effect to that area, although the smoothing didn't work quite so well. gif and has ability to open and work with. The good news is, there are a lot of tweaks for rain,snow,puddles, etc. Download Sqirlz Water Reflections now from Tucows (2.0 Mbytes) For some beautiful animations of great paintings, see the YouTube work of glorfindello Version 2.5 supports alpha channel transparency in PNG, BMP and JPEG-2000 image files. I used this program a long time ago and it's changed considerably, albeit not sure all for the better.

Sqirlz water reflections 2.5 portable