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- [Instructor] Camtasia
allows you to do more

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than just change the color
of leaves on your trees.

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It also allows you to add the effect

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of falling leaves from your trees.

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To add that effect,

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select on Objects over
on the left-hand side,

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then go to Effects.

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Select inside of this box,

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then from the Effects Library,

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click on the Leaves tab.

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Under the Leaves tab

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you'll see three different
default leaf variations.

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Red leaves, yellow leaves

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and various yellow and green leaves.

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Let's go with leaves_01,

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the various yellow and green leaves.

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As you move your cursor around the scene,

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you'll see a box.

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These are the leaves that
you're about to place.

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They're inside of your scene.

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I want to have the leaves
falling from this tree

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right here in the center of our scene,

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so move the box so that it's right

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at the base of the tree and then click.

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Now if I wanted to place
more leaves into the scene

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I could continue to click

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but for right now I'm just
going to leave the leaves

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that we're seeing falling
here from the tree.

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I'm hitting the escape
key once on the keyboard

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to get out placement of leaves

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but as we look at these leaves

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it really just looks like some leaves

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that have been on the ground

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and are now blowing around.

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I'd like to give the appearance
of these leaves falling

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from the tree itself.

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But right now the leaves are fairly close

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to the ground, so let's change the height

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of the leaves by clicking
on the Change Height tool.

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Click on the circular shape,
hold your mouse button down,

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then move the leaves up
to about the 12-foot mark.

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Now it looks like the
leaves are actually falling

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out of the tree.

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Unfortunately though it
also looks like at this rate

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the entire ground is going
to be covered in leaves

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in just a few minutes

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and three or four hours

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the entire tree is not going
to have any leaves in it.

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So, what we need to do is slow down

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the fall of the leaves.

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When we put the leaves inside the scene

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we've got the properties for those leaves

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over here on the right-hand side.

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The reason why the leaves

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are the color that they are

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is because of where the
circle is located here

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in the colors.

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To change the color of the leaves

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just click on the circle

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and then drag it over
until you see the color

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of leaf that you want
falling from your tree.

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I usually leave brightness alone

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because there's really no reason

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to have brightness associated with a leaf.

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Though if you clicked and did decide

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to make your leaves brighter

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you can start to see what happens.

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There's options here for wind.

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The X direction as well
as the Z direction.

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That just affects which direction
the leaves will be blowing

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from your tree.

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Usually I leave these at zero as well

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but that's up to you.

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Create the kind of scene you want

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with the leaves blowing in the direction

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that you want them blowing.

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There's an option here for type.

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As I pull type over

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it will change the type of
leaf that we're looking at.

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There's an option for amount

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and for what we want to accomplish

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amount is really going
to be the best command.

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If we click on amount, then
pull it from right to left,

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the further to the left that you pull,

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the fewer leaves that
you will have falling.

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So, if you only want to have a few leaves

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falling in the scene,

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make your amount be some
number less than 100

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and then you'll have only a few leaves

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falling down from the tree.

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There's also an option here for size.

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As the name kind of indicates

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that's the size of the
leaves falling from the tree.

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Far left-hand size, very tiny leaves,

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far right-hand side,

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fairly large leaves.

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Usually I leave it right around the middle

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but if those leaves are farther away

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I'll make the leaves bigger

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so that they're easier
to see from a distance.

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So, by coming over here to Objects

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and using the effect which allows you

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to place leaves here inside of your scene,

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you can have falling leaves

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blowing in different directions

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of whichever color that you choose

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and whatever type and size of the leaf

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that you want falling from your tree.