woo! new skill unlocked

[xtanitx]

I've finally learned how to make animated gifs in Photoshop. SO OVERDUE. And talk about a fuckin' time-sink! :D It gets easier with each one, yeah, but still. It's taken me three days to make just four gifs, (there's a whole lot of stuffing it up going on; I keep doing things backwards :/) and there's only one I don't hate in retrospect. Total admiration for people who make these things by the boatload and make them well! Anyhoo, I had to share my first non-cringe-inducing (I hope) animated icon.




caps by anastdean


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*woo arms subject to removal if I have poster's regret later ;)

Comments

[henriettaholden.livejournal.com]

Never regret Wetsam

[xtanitx.livejournal.com]

Never! But the icon making/posting, well, maybe! lol

Also, that icon of yours makes me want to moonwalk. Y'know, if I could moonwalk, which I can't. Anyway...those two are so adorable it kills me.

[burnkitty.livejournal.com]

I love it!!

Figuring out photoshop is a never ending puzzle! I found that when making moving gifs imageready is a godsend!!

[burnkitty.livejournal.com]

Sorry, let me correct/explain myself, i'm a bit of a scatter brain atm.

You can make .gifs from .mov files (quicktime). So you can just import the file into Imageready and it will put it into pictures for you. Also, you can import multiple pictures in the same folder in Imageready. Then, you just go to File > Edit in Photoshop and have at it in there! Saves opening them one by one in photoshop and then putting them all onto the same file....

Hope this helps a little!

The icon above and on this post were made in a combination of these techniques...

[xtanitx.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks! CS3 doesn't use ImageReady, though. :\ From my understanding, the functions of ImageReady were incorporated into Photoshop itself. I'm using the Scripts-->Load Files into Stacks command (sounds like the second option you mentioned) since I'm working with screencaps now.

I have the toughest time settling on a frame rate (which seems especially hard when the caps skip a lot of frames. So glad I found anastdean's caps for SPN. I'll totally have to look for a CS3 tut for importing video for when I can't find frame-by-frame caps.), and making sure that any image optimizations I make are applied to all layers.

[burnkitty.livejournal.com]

Ah see I have CS2...and yeah it sounds like that's what I would do in Imageready before transfering it into Photoshop. I'm seriously amazed how much sense I made the other day...must of been a moment of clarity or something ;)

Its good you have found someone who does awesome screencaps, it does take half the work out it. Frame rate and how many pics can vary (and tricky!!)...so have fun, I can't wait to see more! If you like, I can give you the free program I use to make my own screencaps (I only do this if I have to, used for like all of my Sanctuary/Robin Dunne icons.) The file has to be .AVI and it takes a little tinkering to get the settings to what you want. But well worth it :D

[xtanitx.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer! I use KMPlayer which does captures and will play pretty much any file you throw at it (it's free at http://bit.ly/Snww2); I'm just lazy and am more than happy to take advantage of someone else's work. Which is stupid, by the time I find good quality caps I'm willing to use, I could probably have made my own, lol!

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

Nom nom nom

[xtanitx.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly! lol

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

&hearts

[dampersnspoons.livejournal.com]

HEY-O! O.O

Nice job!

[xtanitx.livejournal.com]

haha, you should see him in season 6. since I know you appreciate a good back

Thanks!

That right there is a gift.

[dampersnspoons.livejournal.com]

Oh, my...