Welcome to Gaia! ::

I make gifs now & then, but I usually cheat & use the Wizard in PSP7, & just stick an image effect in. I'm not patient enough to make that many frames! smile
Sometimes I have been surprised to see that using the "Erode" filter on my image will make it look clearer when I resize it down small. Not sure why this should be, but it does mean I can make my image smaller than normal & still be pretty clear. This doesn't work well on drawn images, though.

I always meant to learn Flash! Someone bought me an older copy awhile ago but I've never sat down and used it... Even though it is the gifs of the future.

I use Photoshop and Image Ready too and I thought the effects on Image Ready were a bit limited - so I made my own using Photoshop effects. It takes bloody ages though! But for some reason I don't mind. sweatdrop It's just so nice when it all comes together in the end...

I'd like a copy of the epic one without paul the jerk i mean MgGann

Without McGann? Hmmm... I'll have to dig out the original frames... PM me about it to remind me if I haven't got back to you by Wednesday (running around a lot at the mo - not very organised - but I'll get stuff done so long as people keep nudging me)

TO ISIDAR: I suspect Flash would be a lot smoother but I still haven't managed to use it. I only got onto ImageReady because I broke my version of Gif Builder. Now THAT was an old program... but then I'm not good at moving on. I worked out ImageReady because I already knew Photoshop. If I hadn't I may never have made gifs again. That's how pathetic I am at using new software.

The handy thing about Photoshop is the layers. I know other programs have layers now - but I still like Photoshop the best. You can use all the glow effects and mess around with the opacity and things and get some really nice transitions for gifs. If you have a couple of hours to spare... confused

Yeah, I like that too. I have/had several other programs on my computer, but out of all of them, I use photoshop the most, and by far prefer it. I'm goign to suprise my chinese teacher tomorow when I hand my part of the project in..(she asked for a front cover and an editor page, for the class fashion magazine project. I uhh..spent a few hours on the front cover..and did a quick effective job with the editor page which included finding a bunch of pictures of envelopes, placing them at random on the page, deleting any adresses on them (like Washington D.C. on one..) adding shadow..and using the -great..forgot what it's called..well it is late..- colour thing in blending options, as well as adding texture to the sheet of writing..and then mum kept trying the change some of the wording..good thing I had it saved..

If ever I get bored, I'll create a gif with photoshop..playing with the effects for transistions... I'm counting on that to happen sometime during the holidays..so I'd better plan what I'll do! Or I could go over HTMl again..oh, wait..isn't our Multimedia class learning that next semester? Dont' tell me I'm ahead of the class too far again...


Yeah, whoah..Roobarb, you must have had a ton of frames..especially with transitions, and tweening..

I don't know how you can find the patience - or the time - to do that.. I suppose the end result would motivate you..

Wow, thanks. I think I mostly picked it up with my siblings..who all studied some kind of computer course in university. I was learning flash at the same time my brother was..years and years ago..and html too..

What I found slightly annoying today in multimedia, was the fact that both Timelady and my mouse wasn't working (they had just moved our computers, leading to a confused few minutes while we figured out which computer had whose stuff on it. Then, after we swapped seats, we had to navigate our way with only the keyboard and ability to click the apple at the very corner of the screen (mac computers). So we had to use another computer. Problem? Our work was on these particular computers, and the folder on the school server had mysteriously dissapeared. We had to log into the server, then open our files and save onto the server. It took about half an hour to work out exactly how to navigate a mac with only the menu and the keyboard..we left a ton of thigns open on the computers..-no way to close them. It was fun..I like logical things.

If you gave up computing, what do you do now?

That would be interesting..I could always ask my brothers to teach me..but I wouldn't actuall do something like that (taking it to bits and rebuilding etc.) very often.. Cool.. hey, between the three of us (Timelady, you and myself) we have a director, editor(well..I supose you could call me that..or special effects..) and a writer.. just an intersting little side note that came to mind.

I'm planning to do some sort of computer course in university. but not in year 11 or 12, because the IT subjects they have running for them...don't really interest me. I'll keep playing around on the side though, at home on my computer and stuff.. I like technology..well..when it works properly, that is.