Comments | doodlebug0701: Er help please (a plea)

doodlebug0701

Er help please (a plea)

Dec 27, 2008 19:34

Any of you creative peeps out there I was wondering if any of you could help me pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease. I've just started using Photoshop, after recently finding it, hurrah and now I need to know how to get creative. I've been using PSP5 for ages and am starting to get a bit of the hang with that and Animation shop. But I haven't got much of ( Read more... )

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calchandler December 28 2008, 01:38:08 UTC

For the animated icons, I recommend this tutorial - http://lidi.livejournal.com/124801.html#cutid1

She links to a program that is pretty good for grabbing the frames needed for making the animated icons.

doodlebug0701 December 29 2008, 22:29:15 UTC

Thanks. Could take me a while to get the hang of things there. I did give up at one point and resorted to Gimp. I couldn't find how to grab frames so I resorted to Animation Shop, but the gifs I created are still huge.

calchandler December 30 2008, 04:07:03 UTC

The program lidi gives us is pretty easy to use, just remembering to only capture every third frame and not all of them is a big help.

What version of photoshop are you using? I use photoshop 7, don't know many tricks, but I try playing around when I can.

Gif shrinking becomes a matter of how many colours you choose to allow, which can sadly rather lower the quality of the gif

doodlebug0701 January 3 2009, 19:07:28 UTC

I've been having a play around and still can't get it to work with Photoshop (I'm also using PS7). However on a plus side I found a clip converter, which I can save downloaded clips as mpg files. I can then open those in that programme she gave there and edit the clips down to smaller sizes and save those as ordinary avi files. I then am able to open those in Animation shop and have been creating simple gifs that way. Only problem is that I sometimes have to open every 7 or 9 frames with some of them so that I can make the gifs small enough.