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Title: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: yaya on December 30, 2007, 19:10:24 pm

I've read the instruction!  :-[

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: Bryony's mum on December 30, 2007, 19:27:16 pm

What software are you trying to use?  I have Photoshop Elements, but I had to deviate from the instructions given in order to make a scrolling avatar.  If you are using Photoshop Elements, I can type out or pm you to tell you what I did. 

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: Gareth - Harvey & Theo's Dad on December 30, 2007, 20:38:35 pm

If you don't have the relevant software then you can email the pics to me and I will do it for you :)

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: yaya on December 30, 2007, 20:47:10 pm

thanks guys, am using adobe photoshop and image ready...i've made it but when I try to save to hard drive it says that jpeg files do not support animation so inly first image will be saved!?

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: Bryony's mum on December 30, 2007, 21:21:13 pm

When I save mine, I click on 'save for web' in photoshop elements, and then tick a box which says 'animate' and select how quickly I want the animation to run.  I also have the choice of saving as a GIF or JPEG image - as far as I know you need to save as a GIF to have a scrolling image.

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: Gareth - Harvey & Theo's Dad on January 01, 2008, 07:50:58 am

Quote from: Bryony's mum on December 30, 2007, 21:21:13 pm

I also have the choice of saving as a GIF or JPEG image - as far as I know you need to save as a GIF to have a scrolling image.

Correct, you need to save it as a gif.  To do so in ImageReady (cs2) - File > Save optimized as.  In the Save as type: box ensure it is Images Only (*gif) That should suffice :)

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: yaya on January 01, 2008, 09:04:24 am

 ??? i can get save optimatized as images only but it gives me only (*jpg)

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: Gareth - Harvey & Theo's Dad on January 01, 2008, 19:07:19 pm

Are you saving the file as a jpeg before switching it into imageready?  Photoshop is odd in this way sometimes.  Create the new image with all your layers and don't save it, and then switch into imageready, see if that gives you the option to save as gif.

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: yaya on January 01, 2008, 19:16:50 pm

ok thanks will try :)

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: yaya on January 01, 2008, 19:27:21 pm

 :'( waaaaaaaaaaah no luck, it wasnt mean to be LOL

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: Gareth - Harvey & Theo's Dad on January 02, 2008, 12:05:02 pm

My offer to do it for you still stands, though you have all the software there, I'm not sure why it's not working ???

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: mcruari on January 02, 2008, 12:06:45 pm

coz she's blond G ;)

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: yaya on January 02, 2008, 13:03:47 pm

 :o sinèad!! ;)

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: mcruari on January 02, 2008, 13:04:55 pm

 ;D ;D ;D

only coz I luv ya :-*

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: yaya on January 02, 2008, 13:06:33 pm

s'tru tho :-[

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: Gareth - Harvey & Theo's Dad on January 02, 2008, 19:54:05 pm

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D


Can you run me through your process to see if there's anything obvious as to why it's not giving the gif option.  Also, which versions of photoshop & imageready are you using?

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: yaya on January 02, 2008, 20:31:23 pm

Thanx G!
Using 7.0 version. Am cropping pic susing picture manager then opening them in photoshop, opening new file, making layers, jumping to image ready, making the animation, saving as optimized...then it goes wrong.
My thinkign is that t files are wrong to start with?!

Title: Re: Can u help me make a scrolling avatar?
Post by: Gareth - Harvey & Theo's Dad on January 05, 2008, 23:51:44 pm

Apologies for the delay in replying, been crazy here :)

Have you tried using photoshop to resize the images?  If not then try that, I'm not sure how familiar you are with photoshop, but I think the instructions on how to crop and resize are in Ferbit's original instructions.  Also, the file image that you are transferring into Imageready, does it have the filename Untitled.psd?