You can also hold OPTION (Mac, ALT on PCs?) to duplicate an object when
you drag it. Thus, you can simply type the label once, click and drag
it with OPTION & SHIFT down and the label will be duplicated and locked
on axis during the move. I usually initiate the drag and then cross my
eyes for stereo to set the final placement of the text - that way you
can make the label pop out in the third dimension if you're wanting to
highlight something coming forward in your figure (or vice versa).
Olve
On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 09:42 PM, JP Cartailler wrote:
Just to add a tip to this (should work in illustrator since it does in
photoshop). You can use your mouse (instead of the arrow keys),
pressing
and holding down the shift key before clicking, to mouse the labels and
they will be locked to the axis you start your mouse motion with.
I have a photoshop action script that recreates this method and will
generalize it and post it sometime soon.
JP
Now use a program like Illustrator or Canvas to add the
stereo/depth cued
labels. This is a little tricky to describe, but I'll give it my
best
shot. Place the two images side by side with their centers
separated by
6.0 - 6.5 cm, and aligned horizontally. Now add all your labels on
the
LEFT figure. select all of your labels and duplicate them. Move the
duplicated labels to the RIGHT side. For clarity sake let's assume
we
have 3 labels on the LEFT side (a,b, and c -- we will call then aL
and aR
for the left and right labels, respectively). Place aL near a
recognizable feature of the LEFT figure that you are trying to
label. Now
horizontilly align aR with aL. Now using only the <-- and --> keys
move
the aR label until the identical portion of the actual label (let's
say
the lower right hand tip of the 'a') is vertically aligned with the
identical portion of your model (let's say where the C alpha-C beta
bond
leaves the ribbon backbone) on both the LEFT and RIGHT images.
Repeat
these steps for each pair of labels. This is a nice method for
adding
stereo labels because it does not require looking at your computer
screen
in wall-eyed stereo for 2 hours in order to get proper placement of
labels.
By assuring that the labels are positioned in the LEFT and RIGHT
images
at positions that are identical with respect to the part of the
model
that is being labeled you automatically are also placing them so
they are
at the proper depth when the figure is finally viewed in stereo.
I hope this makes sense. Just email if you want more details.
Scott
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