Doesn’t CS3 come with it’s own animation options? Or is it adobe bridge?
As far as I know, CS3 has the ANIMATION window in…um…the WINDOW tab.
The only thing is that it will compress .gif files into one layer when you open them. You need a separate program to save the .gif as a .psd so that way CS3 won’t compress it. :lame:
I dunno what Bridge is. 
thanks Sas! I love you (no homo)
hah, i just made my sig. i know it’s really simple but i’m beginning to appreciate this avatar stuff. it’s kind of fun to do and the creativity really can be seen! (not in mine of course)
i made that in powerpoint, hah! until i get photoshop…
:u: Hmm…I still gotta check that movie out.
Good shit workin’ with what you got. Powerpoint! 
If anyone knows how to convert a .GIF file into a .PSD file using Adobe Fireworks, please let me know.
CS3 compresses .GIF files into one layer [:bluu:], so you need to save the .GIF as a .PSD first. Problem is, when I do, the .PSD only saves it as one layer that’s a bitmap.
Did some half assed searching, thus I came here to see if anyone knows how. Thanks.
Adobe image ready will save gifs as PSD’s :wonder:
If you send me the gif I can do it for you.
Late
Yeah, but I don’t have ImageReady [CS3 doesn’t have it. They traded it out for Fireworks or some shit. Also, ImageReady ran like crap on my computer Vista OS. When you’d minimize and maximize it, windows and toolbars would take about a minute to load up].
Thanks for the converting offer though.
Yeah Dood 120%'s Color Editing / Re-Coloring Tutorial
i recently asked yeah dood 120% how he color edits / re-colors his sprites. here’s the dood’s tutorial:
I’ll take this image of Ibuki:
and color her into pink (my color when I use her) like this:
Ok the first thing I do is open them both up in Photoshop, line them up then zoom into them like this:
Now take the Eye Dropper tool and take the yellow color from pink Ibuki’s hair. Then switch to the Paint Bucket tool and change it’s settings to: Tolerance: 0 and uncheck Anti-Alias, Contiguous, and All Layers. Then click on tan Ibuki’s hair and it should all become Yellow like this:
Basically, having the tolerance set to zero will make it only effect one color and unchecking contiguous will make it effect that one color through out the entire image. So the brown that was in Ibuki’s hair will be the only color effected.
Let’s say you take the white from her knee and do the same thing. You’ll also notice that the white in her knee is the exact same white on her shirt, bandana & a small part of her foot. This will color them all at the same time since they’re the exact same color like this:
Next I’ll do the lite pink area around her knee:
Then the main pink in her leg:
Next the darker pink used for shadowing on her legs:
Then the slightly less darker shaded pink:
And so on and so on, working around the whole sprite, until it looks like this:
Then zoom out, save then bada~bing~bada~boom! You have a recolored Ibuki sprite:
Anyways, eliminating the bigger sections is easy but it can get a little bit tough when it comes to the smaller sections like the trimming around her shirt. But once you have it down you can easily recolor most sprites in about 10-15 minutes. Well, I hope this helps you out. Talk to you later… dood!
Peace, may it last…
~J
and, here’s his response to color editing every layer of a GIF (color editing all frames of animation at the same time):
About coloring them all, you can do every layer at once but it’s a little tricky. Basically just make sure that when you use the Paint Bucket tool you have “All Layers” checked. Then, this is were it gets pretty tricky, you have to have all the layers visible at the same time. It’ll paint all the layers at once but the thing is, it’s kind of hard to see what you’re doing since there is so many images to deal with. Just make sure that you focus on the top layer when you do it.
But what I usually do is, I take all the frames and line them up in one picture, color one (since it’ll color them all) then put them all back into their animation lay out.
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Thanks str[e]ak and Yeah Dood 120%. Added to the first post.
hey sas I have a question when I open sprites in photoshop I cant drag them to a canvas. why is this? do I have to change its format to a PNG file? what do I do so I can drag it to a canvas?
The mode of the two images has to match. If the sprite is indexed color and your canvas is RGB color, it won’t let you drag and drop. On the sprite, go to Image -> Mode -> and change it.
I never did the color swaps like that.
I always did Image -> Adjustments -> Replace color.
Set the fuzziness to 0.
Eyedrop the color that you want to replace, and then set the result color. Then, before you hit OK, hit save.
Then on each layer, load the replace color settings that you just saved. You can even save multiple color replacement settings (one for each color you are replacing), and use the action palette to automate loading all the color swaps on all the remaining layers.
thanks!
How do u add a border animation or to be specific that glowing animated effect ?
Nice avatar.
Just make a border on a new layer.
Go to the fx box at the bottom of the LAYERS window and choose GRADIENT OVERLAY.
Choose a gradient pattern/color that you like [you can change them manually as well], then click OK.
Open up the ANIMATION window [in either CS3 or ImageReady, depending on which version of Photoshop you’re working with] and in frame 1, leave it as it is.
Create frame 2 then go to your border layer and double click the GRADIENT OVERLAY fx style you have on it. It’ll open up the gradient menu. Change the degree of this by 45 or so [the smaller the degree, the longer it’ll take but the smoother the flow of the animation]. Click OK, make frame 3 and keep repeating the degree change until you’re back at the starting point.
whew
One last thing. When you reach the starting point again at the end of the degree rotating, don’t make that into a frame or else you’ll have two frames on the same degree which means it won’t animate between those two.
Yadda yadda yadda.
Hope that helps, plier.
:u: wait, that’s all there is to it? 
i’m never trying to manually make those borders ever again.
now i need help with putting gif’s on a avatar, im trying to put some sprite’s from fighters generation…tip’s , guide’s will be greatly appreciated :tup:
just open up the gif file in imageready, and each frame should be a layer by itself (i’m assuming you’re using CS2).
thx, but im using CS3 btw ,i figured it out, how did u get that background to move like a heat wave effect ?