animated GIF's for your icon

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Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by NormLarson » Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:45 am

Thanks Driver I was able to get it to work Image   My existing scanner does not do well on shinny black and therefore it looks like some of the bars and pieces are missing.  Unless it got a straight shot at shinny black it did not register the shot.  I will be purchasing a phase based scanner in the near future that will not have that issue.  That should give a point cloud that can print in a 3D printer.  This one would, I think, ... a phase based would be more complete

Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by NormLarson » Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:13 pm

My bad!  I was looking into fla and swf for another purpose.  The gifs were just for fun and I made some signatures for our corporate emails.  Those had little to no Atom in them

Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by Driver » Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:46 am

I thought the entire idea was to do animated avatars which require gif, png, or jpg? And only GIF allows movement. If it's to do a sequence for posting larger sizes on the web then look no further than H.264 encoded mp4 movies.

Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by NormLarson » Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:46 am

That sounds time consuming!  I was using full frame avi's and converting them to gif's.  I am also playing with fla and swf, both have some amazing capabilities! 

Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by Driver » Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:28 am

Last time I messed with one it was using a little utility called, apply, "GifBuilder". You had individual gifs done in photoshop or the like. You'd take each frame loaded in a window, arranged them in order, set the delay between the frame, whether to loop or not, transparency if desired then told it to save the animated gif. It's pretty straightforward.

Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by NormLarson » Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:08 am

Yes, Camtasia is what we use to produce screen capture video presentations.  What software have you had good luck using for gif's?

Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by Driver » Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:00 am

You need different GIF/graphics software then... Camtasia looks to be more video oriented than graphics. Also looks like a lot of empty space on the sides of the animation. You could cut 2-3 pixels off either side, resize it and wind up with a larger more defined animation. This is all nitpicking but when logos get smaller than 90 pixels it's significant. It can be tedious, might just leave as is.

Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by NormLarson » Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:42 am

[quote="Driver"]
You need to set white to be transparent. The GIF software should have a way to do it.
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Really?  I haven't seen it.  I have to create the files out of Cyclone and then I was converting them to gif in Camtasia.  I will look

I am using Camtasia version 3.1.  I think that there is a much newer one here somewhere.  Thanks for the heads up Ken

Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by Driver » Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:41 am

You need to set white to be transparent. The GIF software should have a way to do it.

Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by NormLarson » Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:29 am

Image

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Testing some gif's from a 3D scan

Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by wisp » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:36 am

[quote="Driver"]
A few others:
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I'd change that plug.  Image    It looks to be tracking down the side of the thread.  ;)




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Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by John Lloyd » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:03 pm

[quote="tarsman013"]
[quote="Drinks"]
You need to resize the individual frames that make up the gif. PM me your email address and I'll send you the resized gif.
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thanks so much :-)
that image is so me  i had to use it

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Now you've got it working please can you remove it, it's rather disturbing.  :angel:

Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by apollyon25 » Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:47 am

[quote="tarsman013"]
I am trying to get an animated GIF to work as my icon... i have seen a few people who have it (wisp does)  if anyone can help me that would be greatly appreciated :-)
here is the image   Image
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Is that a PC or Mac being used...

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(just winding Driver up... he loves it...)

Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by Driver » Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:08 am

A few others:
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Re: animated GIF's for your icon

by wisp » Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:11 pm

Hmm... GIFs  ;D
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