WOOOOOHOOOOOO!

[wayfaringwordhack]

Looky, LOOKY, LOOKY, footlingagain!!!! I did it! I made my very own animated icon.  Woot!
 

Comments

[cathemery.livejournal.com]

How'd you do that? :)

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I used Photoshop 7 and Image Ready. I poked around a bit with tutorials, enough to realize that you have to create the layers in Photoshop and then use IR to animate them. What took me forever was getting the file under 40k for the GIF format.

[cathemery.livejournal.com]

ah. Interesting, thanks!

[mindseas.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I want one too!

Christmas giving

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Would you like to make one yourself or would you like me to make one for you? Let me know. :D

Re: Christmas giving

[mindseas.livejournal.com]

I'd love be able to make them myself. I can just imagine Puflet's skeletal steed in motion...

Re: Christmas giving

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Do you have a version of Photoshop and Adobe Image Ready? You can find several tutorials on the web that give you the low-down on it, but if you'd like, I can give you some step by step details of what I did.

Re: Christmas giving

[mindseas.livejournal.com]

I have Photoshop but not IR. I'll ask Louise if she has it when she gets home.

Re: Christmas giving

[mindseas.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do have IR, but I needed Louise to tell me I had it!

Re: Christmas giving

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

*lol* I thought it came bundled with Photoshop (that's how I got it), but I wasn't 100% positive. I expect to see an animated icon from you in the near future. :D

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

Hooray! MOST impressive!

Cleverness and rugby appreciation summed up in one icon, eh?

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm feeling pretty chuffed about it. :D I guess I'll have to wait until this weekend to use it again.

[pjthompson]

Congratulations! Very dramatic.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Hehe, yes, it is very (melo)dramatic. *lol*

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

What's that last panel say?

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

"victors keep trying*." Since it was my first one, I didn't think about entering the type *after* resizing the image. It would have been easier to read had I done that. I might look into reworking it now that I understand more.

*two puns on the word: first, a goal is called a "try" in rugby, and second, the guy with the bloody face is Damien Traille, prounced "try," with the throaty French "R" of course.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay, that is pretty good. :-)