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Graphics Questions
Member Since: 5/27/2005
Posts: 1,027
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alright now im gettin pissed -whoo kinda feel better but imageshack.us said my animation was too many kb so i tried to make it smaller but everytime i put in a smaller number it makes it bigger,y? & does ne one kno what else i could use to upload it bside photobucket b/c that makes the videos all static-y?
Plz help b4 i throw my comp
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Member Since: 5/27/2005
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Member Since: 7/30/2004
Posts: 17,194
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Originally posted by ShootYourGun
quick question, how do you reduce the size of a picture without losing the quality, are there any free programmes i can download to do this?
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No i dont think so, But you can use the FREE TRIAL of Paint Shop Pro, thats a great program to edit pix
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Member Since: 4/16/2005
Posts: 5,328
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Originally posted by Lose Control
No i dont think so, But you can use the FREE TRIAL of Paint Shop Pro, thats a great program to edit pix
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kool thanx
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Member Since: 1/26/2005
Posts: 12,720
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Which program do you use to do the avatars? i have the Gif Animator but i cant make the borders like u guys do
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Originally posted by Allure
quick question, how do you reduce the size of a picture without losing the quality, are there any free programmes i can download to do this?
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GIF animator works for that
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Member Since: 7/30/2004
Posts: 17,194
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Jasc Animation Shop
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Member Since: 10/11/2004
Posts: 28,320
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how to animate text in animation shop?
for example...
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Member Since: 2/2/2005
Posts: 3,385
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CAN SOMEONE HELP ME WITH AN AVATOR MAKER
DOES ANYONE KNOW A PROGRAM I CAN DOWNLOAD FOR MAKIN' AVATORS.
PLEASE POST HERE OR PM ME, I WILL VERY MUCH APPRECIATE IT.
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Member Since: 4/16/2005
Posts: 5,328
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You see that button on the left of your keyboard that says Caps Lock on it, try doing us all a favour and turning it off!
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Member Since: 2/2/2005
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It's not my fault, and so pliz help me out with this, for a minute there, i thought you were gonna help me.
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Member Since: 4/16/2005
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Member Since: 6/6/2005
Posts: 17,088
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Yes, but how do you make avatars with it, because I have the SAME exact program !
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Member Since: 4/16/2005
Posts: 5,328
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Ask Celo, hes made millions of them
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Member Since: 1/3/2004
Posts: 6,932
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First, you'll probably need to download a program called PowerDVD (or Virtual Dub).. this plays the video, and allows you to pause and take captures of it. If you do get this, then here's the steps to make your animation...
First, open the video up. Once you have it playing, find a part of the video that you want to make an animation of. Once you get to this point, pause the video. Open up your Animation Shop 3 at this point, or whenever. Take a capture by pressing the little camera button seen here:
Once you do this, go to your Animation shop and paste it in there. Then go back to your video. To move the video one frame at a time, click this button:
Click that once or twice and take the next capture. Then paste it again in the same animation frame as the previous one. Keep repeating this over and over until you have about 20 or so frames. The size depends on how long the animation is and how big you resize it to afterwards.
Once you have your full animation, you have to resize it. I usually resize the width to about 35 or 40, and then the height should automatically change. If your animation is long, then you should try to resize it smaller so that the file size won't be too big. Once you have it resized, you'll probably want borders...
What I do for borders is I'll look at the animation size (say it's 40x40), and open up a new document that is completely black, and 4 more than the length and height of the animation, so in this case 44x44. Then you open up another document that is 2 more than the height and length of the animation, and make the color white. In this case, the size would be 42x42. Save the black and white documents so that you'll be able to drag them. First drag the white onto the black, so that it forms a nice border. Then duplicate the frames by right-clicking "Duplicate Selected". If you have 20 animation frames, then duplicate the white/black document to 20 frames also. Highlight the entire white/black document by clicking the first animation, press the shift key, and click the last frame. Do the same to animation frames. Now, drag the animations frames onto the white/black frames, and you'll have your border.
Now you want a background picture. I just usually find any random picture that looks good in the video.
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Originally posted by Matto. It takes a little while to learn the tricks of animating letters and doing image transitions and avatar-blends, but you'll get the hang of it eventually, just learn as you go. It's really not too hard, just time consuming, and it can get kind of frustrating.
Try not to save the avatar over and over either, try to do it all at once, 'cuz saving a file as a gif reduces the quality of whatever you're doing, there's no way around that, but yeah, saving it over and over is just gonna reduce the quality more and more each time, so try to avoid that.
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Member Since: 11/10/2005
Posts: 13,968
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I WOULD LIKE TO GET AN ANIMATED AVATAR
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Member Since: 11/10/2005
Posts: 13,968
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I would like to have an animated avatar, but I don't know how u.u
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 12/29/2003
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Member Since: 6/6/2005
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Request it in one of the major outlets of Avatar-Making Greatness. But don't annoy the hell out of them, you don't need to have a different avatar like every week. I've had this one for almost two months now.
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Member Since: 7/6/2004
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 12/29/2003
Posts: 6,311
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In the program that you make avatars, or even in any graphic program, just open the file and then go to File -> Save As.. and then instead of the drop down menu at the bottom having png or where the file name is inserted having *.png (* being the file name), just change it to *.jpg or *.gif. Hopefully this helps.
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