bronxbomba63

Well, my ride's gone through some changes since last year, and I need to update my sig. Here's some pics that I have. Thanks in advance.




and the Stangpede logo from this pic

Xeno

i can try to think of something for ya, but my allergies are driving me crazy today and i'm not able to focus very well; it may be sometime tomorrow before i can get to it

in the meantime, is there anything else specific you'd like incorporated in the sig?

bronxbomba63

Xeno to the rescue!!!!!! Thanks a mill. Well, definitely the NYC background like in the sig you did for me before. Maybe the pics of the car changing...something like Joe's (Mellowyellow) https://mustangforums.com/forum/west...ngeles-15.html. But I'll leave it to you. I trust your judgement. Hope you feel better soon. Take your time, I'm in no rush.

Xeno

i can do something like that... (i actually made his too )


oh, i forgot to add... i like your new mods

Xeno

i'm about half way through with your sig; getting ready to start on chopping the cars and adding all the transitions, but everything else (background and such) is all done

bronxbomba63

Damn, thanks man. I didn't know you made his...cool. Oh, and in case you needed to know for the sig, I'm in the San Diego chapter. Thanks for the compliment big dog.

Xeno

ok, man, how's this? i can probably make the transitions a little slower without disrupting the flow too much if you want, too. (i think this sig is one of my all time favs that i've made)

bronxbomba63

Damn, this looks really good!!!!! Thanks!!

01GT4.6

xeno, you never cease to amaze me! I always thought that you need the latest version of PS to do animated gifs. Do you have any tutorials handy?

Xeno

i actually figured out how to do animated gifs on my own, so i don't have any 'real' tutorials; but i can give you a mini tutorial of my own . what you really need is the 'save for web' option (which i'd guess all ps versions would have). what i usually do is have all the 'background' images merged into one layer, and the same with all the 'foreground' images. then paste in whatever images you want to transition between the background and foreground layers.

to get them to transition, start with two of the transition layers visible; but have one at 100% opacity and the other at 0%. flatten the image and save as a .jpg with a number after the file name, i.e. name_of_file 1.jpg(you may be able to save as a jpg without flattening but i haven't tried it that way). after it's saved, go to 'undo history' and undo the flatten image step; then change the opacities to 75% and 25% respectively (or 80/20 for a little smoother transition). flatten and save and change the number of the file name, i.e. name_of_file 2.jpg. then undo the flatten image step and change opacities again; this time to 50% and 50% respectively (or 60/40). flatten and save. keep repeating until you get to 0% and 100% respectively. now, you keep doing the same for the other transitions.

when you have all the transition steps saved, open them all up and copy and paste them in order (from 1 to how many files you have) into one file (you will have many layers when you're done). at this point, i usually save the file again as a .psd (photoshop) file in case you have to make any subtle changes.

now, this is where you begin the animation process. go to 'file' and select 'save for web'. in this window, select the 'animate' option as well as the 'loop' option. change the image duration; i usually prefer the .07 to .1 second range for the smoothest transition (there should be an option to test the animation before saving) and save the file as a .gif

assuming all went well, you should now have an animated gif a good way to 'visualize' this more, is to open any animated gif (especially one with transitions like the sig i made) and look at the layers to see how they blend together.