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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: WiseKran on August 20, 2004, 02:28:25 pm

Title: Learn how to make gif animation
Post by: WiseKran on August 20, 2004, 02:28:25 pm: anyone want to know how to make gif animation like my sig? you have to admit, they catch your eye, and can be pretty annoying if overdone.

ill put my time into a tutorial instead of spammy spam spam.

im ok at makin gifs, if anyone is a really good at it then feel free to post stuff.
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Post by: Half_Pint on August 20, 2004, 02:31:58 pm: Lol, well I had to make one for school... But it is abysmal.. :D

*looks for the link*
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Post by: WiseKran on August 20, 2004, 02:33:48 pm: lol, i think ther fun. you can do almost anythink with them.
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Post by: Keldorn on August 20, 2004, 03:06:43 pm: Just don\'t go too crazy on the filesize.

Yours is allready close to 500kB, which is a bit too much for a sig.
Especially for people with a 56k connection.

Just think what would happen if everyone would have a sig over 500kB in size.

Just giving a heads up to keep that into consideration.
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Post by: steuben on August 20, 2004, 03:27:40 pm: they get big pretty fast.

it took a fair bit of machining to get the animated avatar that i use here forums.boxtorrents.com down just under the 100 k limit. when i get some time i\'m going to try and bring it down. i think the software i\'m using isn\'t setting transparency or something. but then it is 21 secs, so perhaps i shouldn\'t complain too loudly.
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Post by: WiseKran on August 20, 2004, 08:24:17 pm: well, i dont know so much about how to reduce file size, can you fill me in?
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Post by: steuben on August 20, 2004, 08:48:30 pm: the bits that i do remember are:

- optimize/reduce the pallete size, you don\'t need to haul around a 16 bit pallete when you have 58 colours in the whole animation

-use transparency, don\'t resend bits of the image that doesn\'t change.

but, beyond that simple stuff there isn\'t much that i can suggest
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Post by: Moogie on August 20, 2004, 08:58:25 pm: You can also cut down on size by... cutting down on size. :) What I mean is, you can reduce the kb by reducing the px.

...Still don\'t follow? Bah...
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Post by: DepthBlade on August 20, 2004, 09:28:20 pm: I never got the chance to take teh class when I was in Highschool because it would have meant I would have to drop a mandatory class >.< Maybe one day I will learn how to, I must admit they are attractive
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Post by: WiseKran on August 20, 2004, 09:41:10 pm: wow, he said something nice. Thats a good start depth. anyways i will use transparency, but i dont think cutting down on size is a good idea, i like the siz emine is. lol

if dialup users are on, they shud set the option to \"dont show signatures, and avatars.\"
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Post by: Moogie on August 20, 2004, 10:36:54 pm: Or you should use a sig that doesn\'t force people to change their settings. :) It\'s just common curtesy.
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Post by: WiseKran on August 20, 2004, 10:40:24 pm: i am curious, i nvr had dialup, is the sig i am using now.... like really bad for dialup users? i know it takes a bit longer to laod than a jpeg but is it INSANELY large?
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Post by: Moogie on August 20, 2004, 10:43:31 pm: No, it\'s not insanely large, but would probably take several minutes for someone on a 56k connection to actually view. During that time, their browser might be waiting to load the rest of the page, and subsequently it can\'t because it\'s downloading a picture. :P

500kb doesn\'t seem that much on it\'s own, but just imagine how slow the forums would be if everyone had one...
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Post by: WiseKran on August 20, 2004, 11:07:53 pm: soo r u saying that it has to go...? is what im getting at

lol i like it alot lol and i ardy had to change it in the rubies forum, they dont allow anything larger than 35 K wich is ridiculous, but just say the word and i will take it down, but i do think its really cool.
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Post by: Moogie on August 20, 2004, 11:15:08 pm: You don\'t have to take it down, just make an effort to compress the kb size. I\'d offer to do it for you, but my trial version gif-animator has run out...
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Post by: Urn on August 23, 2004, 03:02:47 pm: im interestested in an animated gif tutorial...

i\'ve always wanted to know how to do that kind of stuff :)
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Post by: Watcher on August 25, 2004, 11:59:43 pm: I have a question, is it possible to create a gif in PSP 8?
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Post by: Zeraph on August 26, 2004, 02:51:44 am: lol, you need \"animation studio\" or something like that made by Jaasc or whoever made psp... it is pretty nice if you can get the trial... actually I was making Animated Gif\'s before I had internet access... which was when I was about 8 or 9 years old :P fun times...
* sits back & reminisces :] *

Edit: Ooh! & if you need to edit the size/optimize/\"tranparafy\" any Gif use: http://gifworks.com/ it is a free site last time I checked...
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Post by: WiseKran on August 29, 2004, 08:14:47 pm: You can make them with adobe image ready. thats where i made mine, it came with Photoshop CS. im note sure how to size it down, other than visually. if anyone can twell me how i would be glad to know
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Post by: Urn on August 31, 2004, 12:32:50 pm: hmmm...photoshop 6 comes with image ready too....i really gotta check this out....

any tips would be much appreciated :)
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Post by: WiseKran on August 31, 2004, 02:47:55 pm: You can check out some tutorials here

http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Animation-and-Interactivity

this is where i learned basics. after that if you just play around with it it all comes together. the only thing im no soo good at is keeping file size down. lol
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Post by: Urn on September 06, 2004, 10:43:22 am: thanks :)
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Post by: Syzerian on September 06, 2004, 11:29:11 am: Animated sig REALLY REALLY annoy me, Im glad mogura got rid of hers.
It would take 2 minutes for someone on 56k to download a 500kb sig, Im glad to get out of dialup.
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Post by: FESFES on September 06, 2004, 08:11:52 pm: ah ha I gots cable (not cabal, cable :P)
anyways it would be cool to have a small animaed sig though i think my current one looks sick ,in a good way
Ah Ha! I did it! It wasnt even hard it works kinda like flash
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v360/killerv/KillerV.gif)
O and guess how big it is........3.12kb! :)
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Post by: Edooo on September 09, 2004, 06:02:01 am: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/Edooo/EdoFlarescopy.bmp

heres one i made earlier today. do you know of a link that tells the bare basics? like what each button is etc? i just got pshop and it was kinda confusing reading the tutorial for this, but i managed.. ty for the link it really helps!
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Post by: WiseKran on September 09, 2004, 01:27:25 pm: try http://www.n-sane.net/tutorials.php

they have a few tutorials that explain all the tools, and then some for making effects and good usage of the programs functions
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Post by: Edooo on September 10, 2004, 12:27:43 am: ty for the link

heres another, do you like?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/Edooo/Untitled-4.bmp

i tried to use this pic for my sig but it doesnt work, does anyone know why?
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Post by: WiseKran on September 10, 2004, 03:15:10 am: i like it, you need to host the image and then put it under tags

go to http://www.imageshack.com

they have very good unlimited hosting, no need to rwegister and they give you a link for forums

try to host it there
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Post by: Edooo on September 10, 2004, 04:02:22 am: doestnt photobucket host? thats what i use or is photobucket something else

how do i do things like what fesfes did a couple posts up?
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Post by: FESFES on September 10, 2004, 06:30:10 am: to put a pic up put [ img ] [ / img ] (but dont put any spaces

Very nice! both of those will make a great sig
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Post by: Edooo on September 10, 2004, 06:55:53 am: ty, but what about the question i asked about photobucket, will that work, because i tried doing what you said and it didnt work

and how do i do what you did with yours?and the thing you were gonna do for me but never finished.

EDIT i just made a cool fireball. if you wanna know tell me and ill write a tutorial, or should i just post it up anyway? its pretty good, its kinda sketchy in places, but if you are good at photoshop you could probably fix it.
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Post by: WiseKran on September 10, 2004, 01:01:12 pm: the reason yours didnt work, is becuae you saved it as a BMP file.. those arent allowed.. here i converted it for you.. put this in youre signature,

and andd [ img ] [ /img ] tags around it

http://img23.exs.cx/img23/6758/Untitled-146.jpg

(http://img23.exs.cx/img23/6758/Untitled-146.jpg)
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Post by: Edooo on September 11, 2004, 12:29:28 am: ok, i didnt kno bitmap was not allowed, what does it have to be? will jpeg work?

ty for converting it
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Post by: Moogie on September 11, 2004, 12:45:48 am: It exceeds the maximum height allowed for pictures on this forum. Max height is 140px, so please resize it when you can. :)
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Post by: Edooo on September 11, 2004, 12:46:36 am: ok, sorry il do it soon i have to go now