Badge Items

These items display a picture badge of your choice. You can create badges using a single image file, an image file and a mask image file, or a dynamic image loaded from a URL.

Mask images allow you to specify the translucency of the badge image. Where the mask is white, the badge will be transparent. Where it is black, it will be opaque. Shades of gray define translucency, for example where the mask is 50% gray, the badge will be 50% translucent. EvoCam automatically supports transparency in Photoshop images, so if you use a transparent Photoshop image as a badge, you do not need to specify a separate mask image (however if you do, it will be used instead of the Photoshop transparency information).

Dynamic badges allow you to incorporate weather maps, stock tickers, or any other web-based image into your webcam image. When creating dynamic badges, enter the URL from which you want to load the image, and specify how often the image should be reloaded.

EvoCam also supports drag-and-drop of one or more image files into the EvoCam window to quickly create badges.

Working with badge items:

¥ To create a badge, click the 'New Item' button in the 'Items' tab and choose 'Badge' from the popup menu, or choose 'New Badge' from the 'Items' menu. In the dialog, choose the type of badge you want to create.

¥ To resize the badge, move the cursor over the badge's lower-right corner and drag the grow box which appears. If you need to resize the badge without maintaining its original proportions, hold down the Shift key while resizing the badge.

¥ To rotate the badge, move the cursor over the badge's lower-right corner, hold down the Command key, and drag the rotate box which appears. To rotate the badge in 15° steps, hold down the Shift key while rotating the badge.

¥ To skew the badge, move the cursor over the badge's lower-right corner, hold down the Option key, and drag the skew box which appears in the direction you want to skew the badge. To skew the badge in steps, hold down the Shift key while skewing the badge.

¥ To automatically size the badge to match the original image, choose 'Use Image Size' from the 'Items' menu.

¥ To prevent EvoCam from resizing the badge image to a 'useful' size (which is usually one quarter the size of the video image) hold down the Command key when dropping the image file into the EvoCam window.

¥ To specify the translucency of the badge, use the 'Fade' slider.