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 Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:54 am
I made my animated banners with the Animation Wizard in Paint Shop Pro 7.
And I've found loads of good fonts at Bravenet.
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:02 am
isidar_mithram Roobarb I use Adobe ImageReady to make my gifs - which came with my newer version of Photoshop. It wasn't included with my old version though so it depends what Photoshop you're working with. I tend to make all the individual frames in Photoshop, save them into a folder then import the folder into ImageReady. But then I like making my own transitions too which Isidar says is insane. So depends what you wanna do... Can't help you with the fonts. When I need fonts I usually just look them up on Google... but I haven't for ages. Roobarb, it IS insane. To make that little think I did for Sushi man was 22 frames. No transitions, no tweening of any sort. If you look at the long..epic animations you do, and imagine how many frames that took..and then count how many transitions you would have added...*shudder* My computer would not be happy with me if I did that. It'd freeze almost immediately. Although, I see now why you import a whole folder in. I have slight suspicions doing that with my computer so i just click 'edit in Imageready' and take the layers across to play with.. But I suppose your own transistions DO make it more interesting..I just don't like doing it because it takes my computer long enough to do it without already in any case. Yup umm..there's imageready 7 with photoshop 7, There's the CS versions and the newest CS2 versions, but I doubt anyone here has them.. Any older than that I don't know..I don't think there are.. For animations you could also use Flash..more annoying, less ways to directly edit graphics..but it works better than Imageready. Smoother at least. I'd recommend a combination of Photoshop and Flash to anybody bothered to do it. For quick things for the web, I just use Imageready. Maybe I just don't have as much patience as Roobarb..I mean, I only ever have a few hours aafter school each day, to cram everything I have to do into..which leaves a bare mimimum for the extra luxury like things..like detailed animations. We have a 30 day trial of Flash MX I might use someday.. You know what I'd really like? The Maya thing..for 3D animations.. VERY expensive..and I probably won't use it much..so no point, but it'd be cool. I use PS7/IR7, and general either use arrow keys and Move or filters for transitions. What is CS, anyway? That thing that makes the frames for you is cheating, but very useful. I always found Flash a bit of a pain, so I stick to Imageready. I recommend playing with filters that involve transparency for transitions. It can turn out pretty cool. Oh, and try out some custom brushes. Always useful.
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:22 am
I made a new banner this weekend!
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:25 am
Nice! I like how that blurring effect makes the TARDIS look like it's whizzing through the time vortex. And the background's pretty spiffy too!
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Hairy Priest Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:42 pm
As usual, I came up with the background just goofing around with PSP, & I thought, "Hey, that looks like a DWG banner!" So I made it one. 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:16 am
Maaah can someone here tell me how to ah- well I can get the image into my signature but I want to link it with the homepage of the guild... and ah, I know html but it doesn't work... and I have no ida what BB code is. So yeah, anyone know what to do?
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:00 am
This is what you do. If you know HTML (yay! less explaining!) it should be pretty easy to get the hang of, BBCode that is. (I always call it BBC code or something..strange) [url=http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/index.php?guild_id=4608] [img]http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g122/Whatsit2/Gaia/th_DWGBannerTV.gif[/img][/url] gives you  img code, with a url code before it, closed after it. Understand? Or have I assumed too much? I do that quite a bit.. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 2:12 am
Stresshog isidar_mithram Roobarb I use Adobe ImageReady to make my gifs - which came with my newer version of Photoshop. It wasn't included with my old version though so it depends what Photoshop you're working with. I tend to make all the individual frames in Photoshop, save them into a folder then import the folder into ImageReady. But then I like making my own transitions too which Isidar says is insane. So depends what you wanna do... Can't help you with the fonts. When I need fonts I usually just look them up on Google... but I haven't for ages. Roobarb, it IS insane. To make that little think I did for Sushi man was 22 frames. No transitions, no tweening of any sort. If you look at the long..epic animations you do, and imagine how many frames that took..and then count how many transitions you would have added...*shudder* My computer would not be happy with me if I did that. It'd freeze almost immediately. Although, I see now why you import a whole folder in. I have slight suspicions doing that with my computer so i just click 'edit in Imageready' and take the layers across to play with.. But I suppose your own transistions DO make it more interesting..I just don't like doing it because it takes my computer long enough to do it without already in any case. Yup umm..there's imageready 7 with photoshop 7, There's the CS versions and the newest CS2 versions, but I doubt anyone here has them.. Any older than that I don't know..I don't think there are.. For animations you could also use Flash..more annoying, less ways to directly edit graphics..but it works better than Imageready. Smoother at least. I'd recommend a combination of Photoshop and Flash to anybody bothered to do it. For quick things for the web, I just use Imageready. Maybe I just don't have as much patience as Roobarb..I mean, I only ever have a few hours aafter school each day, to cram everything I have to do into..which leaves a bare mimimum for the extra luxury like things..like detailed animations. We have a 30 day trial of Flash MX I might use someday.. You know what I'd really like? The Maya thing..for 3D animations.. VERY expensive..and I probably won't use it much..so no point, but it'd be cool. I use PS7/IR7, and general either use arrow keys and Move or filters for transitions. What is CS, anyway? That thing that makes the frames for you is cheating, but very useful. I always found Flash a bit of a pain, so I stick to Imageready. I recommend playing with filters that involve transparency for transitions. It can turn out pretty cool. Oh, and try out some custom brushes. Always useful. well, I use PAINT so THERE
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:29 am
Timelady42 well, I use PAINT so THERE Pah, Microsoft poop. It can be used to make some pretty cool images, but it really isn't too great. But it's free, so it doesn't have to be good. I've heard good things about http://www.gimp.org/ but I've never tried it.
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:16 am
Ahhh yay thanks ah, isidar_mithram, that helped a lot. Still dont see what's with all this BB code, its weird because its like... similar to html but different at the same time. Makes it confusing. Probably not if I bothered to learn it but hey. I'm not.
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 7:23 pm
I found a cool picture. But I couldn't be bothered to do anything special to it. So here's a banner anyway. 
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:22 am
You should have put 'RESPECT' under there - or something like that. gonk
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:52 pm
Yeah, probably. Maybe I will. I have the same picture without the words..I saved it after i did my cropping and whatever.. I can't actually remember how I found that picture..
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:54 pm
isidar_mithram I found a cool picture. But I couldn't be bothered to do anything special to it. So here's a banner anyway. Nice banner. Where the heck does that picture come from?
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Hairy Priest Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:53 pm
No idea. I can't even remember how I found it..because i was searching for all this random stuff on google..
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