speaking of this tutorial, if someone could walk me through it, that would be great. i know the instructions are really straight-forward, but i just can’t get the lasso tool (or the brush tool) to work properly when i’m erasing the parts that i don’t want. it’s kinda hard to explain.
Make sure you have black and white in your color palette.
In the layer mask. ‘The white screen thing’.
You’ll start painting with a black brush after you’ve made your color adjustments. Make sure you’re painting on the layer mask (white screen thing). Make sure you click on that before you start painting on it.
The lasso tool, I think he meant just tracing the skin to return it to the original color because that’s what you’re doing with layer masks, have the selection with the lasso tool and fill it with black. (I’m not positive if you’re able to do this though, it might make a new layer or not.)
Someone more experienced with Animations please help me out.
I made a GIF version of my current avatar, but I can’t get it to fit within 48.8Kb. I’ve been deleting frames here and there, but it’s still too large.
Here’s what I’ve got:
It’s my first time working with anything animated, and I thought I’d take a shot. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
well i copied ur origial av…opened it in ps4…added a white brush circular thingy(im awfull at instructions srry ) …made 3 animated frames( then i tween the 2nd and 3rd animation to 2 frames(previous) set all to 0.1) then go to save for web and devices n saved it as a gif.(256, perceptual, no transparency)
lol, yeah. thanks anyway, though. i appreciate it. :tup:
looks like BENSKI has this covered, but you also might want to take a look at the number of frames. holy cow, there are 91 frames in that animation. granted, you can have a boat load of frames in an av and still fit it into the premium file size limit, but the differences between each frame need to be small.
Could someone verify if I’m understanding this correctly?
I took the original image of mine, duplicated that layer, and on the copy layer added a Render > Lens Flare. From what I’ve read from Benksi’s post, should I have used a Brush instead of the Lens Flare? I’m also confused on the “made 3 animated frames” part. How do you go by performing this with what I’ve got?
Sorry, I’m not too experienced with PS and even less with Animation. Thanks for the help.
1)open img.
2)click create new layer.
3)click on tht layer, and select soft round brush(thts wut i used) depends on the size u want.
4)i brushed the top right once.
5) now go to ur animation frames. b4 u do this deselect the 2nd layer u jst made(click the eye off) so now the only layer selected is ur pic, n the other is deselected.
6)now click duplicate selected frames, u shld have 3.
7)then click ur second frame, and click the eye on the 2nd layer u deselected earlier.
8) now click the 2nd frame, and click tween animation(set it to previous frame,frames to add 2)
9) ^^ do tht to the 2nd frame and the 3rd frame. and done
this is the best i could explain it hope u dnt get confused. its really easy once u get the hang of it. gl
anyone know stuff about transparency settings in photoshop/imageready cs (or transparency in general)?
like for example how to get a picture (with transparency) to show up really clear without any…uh…funny pixels on the edges (i dont really know how to explain it…). i know it has something to do with the matte color/dither/whateverthefuck output settings but i dunno what the rules are.
the stuff i do know:
obviously the picture/background color of the website itself matters, like theres probably going to be funny pixels no matter what if theres a lot going on colorwise at the edges. pictures with not that much color depth (like FG sprites and pixel art) will look very clean for that reason, but something thats cut out from somewhere will probably look less clean.
I remember Yeah Dood was talking about this, so if anything he will know further than what I can relay.
He had an avatar [I believe of Elena] which also had some white spots [I know what you’re talking about]. He said he manually went back and erased them til it was spot-free.
IF I recalled correctly. That’s about as much as I know. Sorry.
I’m brushing up on some photoshop stuff and followed the Animating Borders tutorial here:
I’m curious to know since this will be for use with an AV, after I’ve gotten the border to animate, what file do I need to save this as to have it animate in an AV? Also, is there anything that needs to be done before saving, after the last Tween to get it animated?
OK, more animation help. When making Av’s with the animated border and animations within the Av simultaneously, I’m assuming the movement of the border/picture animation both need to occur during the same frames? Tough to explain…
hope u dnt get confused. its really easy once u get the hang of it. gl
