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« Reply #40 on: March 30, 2005, 05:51:11 AM » |
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A moving one...
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Luluhime
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« Reply #41 on: March 30, 2005, 06:02:44 AM » |
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A moving one...
ok, this is how I do it.... First of all I take screen caps from the dvd of all the frames I want in the GIF. This can be anywhere from 20 - 50 frames for a short animation. To do this I use Power DVD (as it can screen cap the movie for you) and adobe photoshop. I then paste each image on top of each other, so it becomes a kind of 'sandwich' of images. You could do this in ms paint, but you would have to save each image seperatly, whereas adobe PS with save it as one file with many layers. Once I have all the frames I need, I crop the image file down to remove unwanted parts of the scene and then touch up each frame, by making it sharper, brighter etc... I then use adobe Imageready which is a program especially designed for making GIFs. I can open the file that I saved in adobe PS and start to build the GIF. It gets hard to explain, but basically I choose the image I want to show out of the 'sandwich' of screen caps for each frame of the GIF. After that, it's just a case of resizing the whole thing to make it smaller, then adding a background image to finish it. I'm not very good at explaining things, so I'm sorry if I've confused you. There are more simple ways of doing it, but it takes alot longer...   |
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EmmasOneandOnly
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« Reply #42 on: March 30, 2005, 06:04:58 AM » |
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Thanks, but I guess I'll just find some on the internet, to offense.
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« Reply #43 on: March 30, 2005, 06:06:12 AM » |
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Thanks, but I guess I'll just find some on the internet, to offense.
lol, okies |
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« Reply #44 on: March 30, 2005, 06:11:11 AM » |
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Wow, Luluhime, look what you've done to us! Moving icons everywhere! It all looks great. I can't believe you can make them so quickly.  I usually change my avatars after a month or two, but I think I'll be keeping this one for a lot longer! |
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« Reply #45 on: March 30, 2005, 06:27:58 AM » |
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I hardly ever change mine so having a cool one helps  |
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« Reply #46 on: March 30, 2005, 05:30:27 PM » |
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I made a couple of CoS snake icons: Without a picture:  With a picture:  |
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« Reply #47 on: March 30, 2005, 06:25:15 PM » |
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Those look great! Sara will be very happy.  |
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« Reply #48 on: March 30, 2005, 10:41:39 PM » |
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Wow!!! I am so excited!!! Of course, I am back at work and can't see them in action at the moment, but they look great standing still even!! I am saving them to photobucket now. You are the best!!!!
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« Reply #49 on: March 30, 2005, 10:47:31 PM » |
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Help!! I am confused now. Which pic do I use? The map? Or one of the snakes, and if so, which one!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!!
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« Reply #50 on: March 30, 2005, 11:06:22 PM » |
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The map is a nice change of pace. You could use it for a while, then switch to the snake, then back again. |
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« Reply #51 on: March 31, 2005, 01:21:41 AM » |
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Aren't we a funky forum now  |
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« Reply #53 on: March 31, 2005, 05:17:17 PM » |
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Posted by: Luluhime Posted on: March 30, 2005, 09:15:17 pm
lol! I'm sure it's just a fad Not a fad, just fab Ok I have checked and have all the bits I need (I think). First question though; after I have screen dumped do I paste each frame into Adobe PS? Or do I have to go through paint? |
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« Reply #54 on: March 31, 2005, 05:22:17 PM » |
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 I hope it's a Pinky and the Brain one Sharon!!!
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« Reply #55 on: March 31, 2005, 05:27:15 PM » |
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What else could it be?  ? Just a few glitches at the moment. P and the B is not on DVD, I can't get the screen dump to work and I don't understand layering. Other than that everything should go swimmingly Although Pinky may bite the dust in favour of a Starbug (just got lastest DVD and it is brilliant ) |
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« Reply #56 on: March 31, 2005, 05:38:30 PM » |
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Both very good options (what a relief!!!)
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« Reply #57 on: March 31, 2005, 08:35:08 PM » |
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Is that Red Dwarf starbug or an other thing I have never heard of? I have put the buckbeak avi on an other forum I'm on twice the fun |
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« Reply #58 on: March 31, 2005, 11:06:02 PM » |
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Yep a Dwarfer Starbug. New question. I have done the frame capture but when I put each one in PS they keep starting new documents, instead of one document with lots of layers. Sorry to be a pain but I will be the happiest person you could imagine if I manage this (with lots of help of course ) |
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« Reply #59 on: March 31, 2005, 11:48:14 PM » |
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Yep a Dwarfer Starbug. New question. I have done the frame capture but when I put each one in PS they keep starting new documents, instead of one document with lots of layers. Sorry to be a pain but I will be the happiest person you could imagine if I manage this (with lots of help of course ) Ok, when you screen cap the first frame, go into adobe PS and click new. Hopefully it will already show the correct dimensions for your screen cap, but be sure to make it transparent (rather than a white background) it will say this at the bottom of the dialog box. When the canvas appears go to edit > paste. You will have your first layer. Then creat a new layer on the same canvas. Go to Window > layers and select it just to make sure you have the layers box showing. On the layers box click the icon at the bottom of it, 2nd in from the right (the square looking one next to the bin).That will create a new transparent layer. Take your next screen cap of the clip, go back into adobe and paste it. Hopefully that will paste it right on top of the previous picture. Then repeat the process. Remember when you save it, to save it as a PSD file, or you will loose the layers |
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