Help With Photoshop, Etc

Media Outlet Image Mishmash
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Sas…I am oh-so-totally repping you when I am > 500 posts. You’re awesome.

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<-- so this is my first evar animated gif. used photoshop. what are some tips for making it not only be 11 frames?

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I mess around with the settings (lossy, web snap, # of colors etc) when saving for web and devices until it is under 19.5 kb and looks good. Unfotunately 19.5kb is very limiting and in my experience all of the animated AV’s that I made (for non prem) were approximately 11 frames or less. If you want more frames than that, you might as well by prem (a month is only 3 bucks) and then you get 50kb which is significantly less inhibiting. Sorry if this isn’t majorly helpful. Good job on your av btw. :tup: Especially your first ever from now on you’ll only make better AVs. :china:

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if you have flash, use flash + photoshop

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Is there a option in CS2 Image Ready to make all the frames be in the same position

example, if I go to frame 1 in the animation window and move the image to the middle of the canvas is there a way to move the rest of the frames to the same position as well w/e all the extra work? (like a short-cut or sumthin’) sorry if this still sounds weird :sweat:

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I was wondering if anybody could help me out with my filesize problem, so to say.

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5666/bewd3.gif

^This avatar’s file size at the moment is 64.4 KBs, and it only has about 10-0 frames.
What am I doing wrong?
Any suggestions? :\

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:u: The pic ain’t showing up, copying the link didn’t work either…

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Thanks for the head’s up. :]

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5666/bewd3.gif

:EDIT:
Is it working now?

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:u: Yes it’s working now, I think the problem is that it’s a prem sized (premium members get to have 160x100 sized av’s instead of the 160x64 or 19.5kb limit) you could probably use it if you re-sized it but I’d doubt it would look any better as you’ll have to delete some frames as well (and I’m not sure if BEWD would like someone else to rock his Yujiro av without as asking :smokin:) you may be SOL in this one…

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:rofl: Sorry for being unclear KrazyKone, but I’m actually making that avatar for BEWD.
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/3033/bewd2.gif
This was my first attempt. He asked for the font to be smaller and the ink drops to be red.
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5666/bewd3.gif
This was my second attempt. Did what he asked but the file size passed the limit, even removed some frames to drop the original file size (which was 81.1 KBs which changed to 64.4 KBs after the editing)
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5894/bewd5.gif
This was my third attempt, cropped the picture and removed some more frames, but in turn the animation’s fast paced and the quality seems pretty bad compared to the original.
So let me rephrase my questions to avoid anymore confusion.
"Whenever I make an animated avatar, it seems to me the filesize is bigger than what it really should be.Can anybody help me with this problem I’m having? Actually, I remember posting back here a long time ago about an avatar problem similar to this I think(?)
I’ll edit this post if I find it.

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:u: :lol: my bad anyway what are you using to make your av’s? if it’s CS2 + IR (Adobe Photoshop 2 and Image Ready) I might be able to help…

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Yo Okuma. I opened up your Bewd AV in Photoshop CS4, slowed down the animation and the total filesize after that was about 37kb. I can’t explain why the filesizes are so big when you make animated gifs cause this file you had in your post only had 7 frames and that should definitely be smaller than 50kb, even at 256 colors. Anyways, here’s what I got:
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/3830/bewd3okuma.gif

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Good shit savaii :tup:, I probably would’ve screwed up trying to explain all that :rofl:

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Thanks for helping savaii,appreciate it- and I see you’re a fan of NCIS ,too?
Awesome
@ KrazyKone
I’m just glad you tried to help at all and didn’t just skip over my post :]

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:u: no prob, I’m actually just learning how to fiddle around with CS as well :lol:

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:u: I’m glad I could help out. :tup: thumbs up to both of you! :tup: ya’ll here on SRK inspired me to learn photoshop. And NCIS owns Television! :pleased:

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Thanks for the tutorial… I feel lazy to try it out… But will definitely give it a shot…

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Anywho can someone give me they’re 2 cents on “how to animate borders” this stuff is driving me crazy :looney: btw I’m using CS2 + IR…

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What are you trying to do? Make it change colors? Make it have a shine that goes through it?

Here’s a rough.

  1. Make a new frame in the Layers.
  2. Click on the new layer and press CTRL+A.
  3. Go to EDIT->STROKE and set at whatever number and color you wish. Click OK.

Now that your border’s made it’s time to animate it.

COLOR

  1. Make a copy of the border in the Layers.
  2. Click the Fx button and choose COLOR OVERLAY. Choose your color.
  3. Open up your animation box.
  4. First frame in animation is the original border layer ONLY.
  5. Second frame in animation is the copy of the border ONLY.
  6. Alternate back and forth. Add colors if you wish by repeating steps 1 and 2.

SHINE
I ain’t gonna fuck with this one. There’s a link on the first page to Vegett0’s tutorial.

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Okay I think I got it now, thanks Sas :tup: