{"id":735,"date":"2014-12-29T17:54:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T17:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiebrightmore.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2015-01-31T17:02:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T17:02:59","slug":"magic-lantern-custom-crop-marks-black-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiebrightmore.com\/photography\/magic-lantern-custom-crop-marks-black-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Lantern Custom Crop Marks (Black or White)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Magic Lantern<\/a> allows you to create custom crop marks which are overlaid on your live view screen. This can be incredibly useful for all sorts of photography, timelaspe, and filmmaking work.<\/p>\n I really wanted to be able to have white<\/em> crop marks for night work where the subject is darker. After hours of tinkering I finally figured out a way to do it, just follow the instructions carefully and you will nail this. I\u2019ve included some demo files.<\/p>\n I ran into issues getting the original cropmarks tutorial<\/a> instructions to work for me, possibly as I was working in Illustrator first. I\u2019ll leave the RLE compression part out of this tutorial as it works just fine, you can refer to that in the previous link (my example files contain the RLE app).<\/p>\n Hopefully this will save you a ton of time either way.<\/p>\n First step, download the Magic Lantern Custom Crop Marks example files…<\/p>\n Nb<\/strong>. I always make my custom crop marks in Illustrator, but you\u2019ll need to process the artwork\u00a0in Photoshop afterwards. Of course, you can skip Illustrator and just you Photoshop if you like, just remember to use shape layers \/\u00a0switch off anti-aliasing. These instructions pertain to using Mac OS X Yosemite with the latest Adobe CC apps, although I can\u2019t imagine you\u2019d have any issues using any versions of Photoshop and Illustrator.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/li>\n You must use the compression tool, follow the instructions here: http:\/\/magiclantern.wikia.com\/wiki\/Cropmarks<\/a><\/p>\n Finally, make sure you rename your custom crop mark files by removing the .rle<\/em>\u00a0suffix so they read .bmp<\/em>\u00a0before dropping them\u00a0into your Magic Lantern SD card\/s under: I\u2019ve tested this process several times so I know it works well. One thing to note is ML doesn\u2019t have much room to display your file names, so if you create several crop mark files, just be sure to keep the file name nice and succinct.<\/p>\n The example files I\u2019ve provided contain; jb_example.rle-final.blk.bmp<\/em> and jb_example.rle-final.wht.bmp<\/em> – rename these to something shorter and load them into your ML SD card to test the demos.<\/p>\n If you find this useful, please leave me a comment and share the page.<\/p>\n Enjoy : )<\/p>\n\n
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RLE compression<\/h2>\n
Load onto your SD card<\/h2>\n
\nSD card root > ML > cropmarks<\/p>\nConclusion<\/h2>\n
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