5 replies to this topic

[MJOLNIR]

I want to be able to make little moving bars on my sig...I'll post an example on this forum for an example...I want to be able to do it in Imageready. I would appreciate it greatly....

[kenshin_warior]

Just make like 5-25 frames, then go through each frame doing each bar, then move on to the next bar, repeat until it's done.

[MJOLNIR]

huh??? You can't expect me to be able to make something out of a single sentence like that! Man......this sucks.....WILL SOMEONE ELSE (or you again Kenshin if you elaborate more)....rephrase that? Thanks....

[Jamie Huskisson]

whilst it looks "ok" the sig is a ridiculous filesize

[MJOLNIR]

true..but I didnt make it....I just want to make a sig that is kind of like that...Maybe a warthog moving accross it or something....I dunno....Is there a way I could make a warthog move in the backround using a video? If not just say so....

[kenshin_warior]

To animate bars:

1) Make the sig, un-animated, without the bars.
2) Then, make a row (if you're doing vertical bars) of short lines, each the width of your bars (probly around 5px) . Maybe make about 5 lines, and space each line out 2-5px
3) Then duplicate the layer
4) Edit the bars in layer 1 to look like you want the first frame.
5) Then duplicate the layer
6) Add on to each bar, maybe 2px to the top of one, 4px to another, etc
7) Repeat Step 5 & 6 until they've all reached what you want to be their max height
8) Duplicate Layer
9) Erase several pixels off the top of each bar
10) Repeat steps 8 & 9 until all the bars are just 0-3 pixels above the first layer
11) in the frames window, find the arrow that you can click to say 'convert layers to frames' and then press it
12) Save it as a .gif , then open it in your browser to test it.

To extract warthog from a video:

1) Get a program (such as Quicktime) that can export videos to .gif format
2) Export it
3) Open it in ImageReady
4) Delete all the frames except the ones you want
5) in the frames window, find the arrow that you can click to say 'convert frames to layers' and then press it
6) Use a soft brush to erase around the warthog
7) Repeat for each layer
8) save it (but don't close it)
9) in the document you want to overlap it on, merge visible layers
10) Duplicate layer
11) then copy frame 1 from the warthog gif file
12) paste it onto the document you're overlaping it on
13) merge down
14) duplicate the the original layer, with no warthog (keep duplicating for every new frame you want on the sig
15) move the duplicated layer to the highest layer (to the top)
16) Repeat steps 11-15 (for step 11, change the frame being copied to the frame # in the sig)