Source Material

 – Other Source Material

Portsall Passage    An illustration of how pilot book information can be linked with an animated track chart

Essential Tools

– Image Editor

5 essential photo editing steps  a clear explanation by Simon Foster of the key steps in photo editing

– Video Editor

Getting Started with Cyberlink Power Director   Many video editor suppliers have similar introductory videos. I thought this one was quite good.

ABCs of using Keyframes  A clear explanation if what keyframes are, and how they work published by Sharper Turtle

Preparation

– Preparing Track Charts

Introduction    The background to the demonstration videos that were specially produced for this website and associated publications.

LogPrep 1a Marine Chart Part 1 of a 3 part demonstration of how to create  a passage chart

LogPrep 1a Marine Chart Part 2 of a 3 part demonstration of how to create  a passage chart

LogPrep 1a Marine Chart Part 3 of a 3 part demonstration of how to create  a passage chart

LogPrep 1b     Making a Simple Marine Chart

LogPrep 1c   Making Tracks on Land Maps

LogPrep 1d Creating Animated Marine Video

LogPrep 1e Creating an animated road track

– Assemble Weather Maps

LogPrep 2a getting a Long Range forecast using synoptic charts

LogPrep 2b getting a zygrib set

Zygrib – an illustration of how to use zygrib based on downloaded grib weather files

– Pre-process the images

5 essential photo editing steps  a clear explanation by Simon Foster of the key steps in photo editing. )

Making selections – using channels to create  and store selections. One of over 200 excellent tutorials produced by Serif for their Affinity Photo product.

LogPrep 4a Making an animated panorama

The Text Log

Page Layout Techniques – an old but excellent Serif tutorial with some excellent advice.