Help?

2004-04-27 04:52:48 pm

Edit- Now I just need to know which everyone likes better.

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2004-04-27 05:27:11 pm

I think your current is much better but oh well... I guess just go to your favorite search engine and look for file compressor maybe... I'm really not that good at this computer stuff

Kharay1977

2004-04-27 05:29:39 pm

Compressing an animated GIF is quite hard. You have to find yourself an editor that can open up each frame separately and optimize it. Anyhow... Animation Shop (Adobe)... should be able to take care of it. However, that is, like all other products by Adobe, far from free.

You could try searching on www.sourceforge.net for a free graphics editor that could handle something like that. Wouldn't surprise me if there were several.

Phazon Eater

2004-04-27 05:33:17 pm

I made it in Adobe Imageready (the orginal image is from Photoshop).

I've added a poll to see if it is worth my time compressing it or not.

-¤MaynardsTOOL¤-

2004-04-27 05:40:17 pm

Quote from Phazon Eater:

I made it in Adobe Imageready (the orginal image is from Photoshop).

I've added a poll to see if it is worth my time compressing it or not.

You just took the original picture and added effects right? I was going to ask if you could send it to me, and I could try making an animation, with a small file-size for you.....might be a bit difficult if it's in .psd format though...

Phazon Eater

2004-04-27 06:52:22 pm

I just took the PSD of my still avatar and added animated layer effects.

I'm going to run the poll a while and see what people think. I've asked others and so far its 4 for animated, 2 for still.

By the way, I've noticed a couple people with avatar file sizes as large as (maybe larger) than the animated one I made. Isn't this against the rules?

DominicanZero

2004-04-27 08:00:34 pm

直死の魔眼使い

Here's a trick to lower the filesize: When you have the PSD, count how many frames your animation will have, then save all the frames independently. Open them all again, and flatten the images. Now count your frames. Let's suppose you have six 100x00 frames. So make a new image 300x200, and place all your frames there (this size, compared to the sizes and amount of the original frames, will leave no blank spot). Flatten the image, and index the colors (Image

Mode

Indexed Color), and choose a pallette that you like (I recommend any of the two Adaptive options). Now go to Image

Mode

Color Table, and save the current pallette. And now, after all that, crop the individual frames and paste them into new images, and index their colors using the previously saved pallette. With this, you achieve the lowest change rate available in a GIF image, and the compression rate can increase a little when you compress them. :)

Sorry if this was a little long. :)

As for people with larger avatars, it's probably because of remote linkage. They're not uploading the images, and the system can't rate remotely stored images. :)

Here's a trick to lower the filesize: When you have the PSD, count how many frames your animation will have, then save all the frames independently. Open them all again, and flatten the images. Now count your frames. Let's suppose you have six 100x00 frames. So make a new image 300x200, and place all your frames there (this size, compared to the sizes and amount of the original frames, will leave no blank spot). Flatten the image, and index the colors (Image :arrow: Mode :arrow: Indexed Color), and choose a pallette that you like (I recommend any of the two Adaptive options). Now go to Image :arrow: Mode :arrow: Color Table, and save the current pallette. And now, after all that, crop the individual frames and paste them into new images, and index their colors using the previously saved pallette. With this, you achieve the lowest change rate available in a GIF image, and the compression rate can increase a little when you compress them. :)

Sorry if this was a little long. :)

As for people with larger avatars, it's probably because of remote linkage. They're not uploading the images, and the system can't rate remotely stored images. :)

Phazon Eater

2004-04-27 09:14:02 pm

Ah, remote linking. So I guess I could use that avatar. Thanks for that tip though! I'll keep it in mind for the furure! :)

I'll just leave the poll open a little longer to see which avatar people prefer.

Wassup Dawgs

2004-04-27 09:18:01 pm

I like the non-animated one better. The flashing words just take away from the picture as a whole. The letters are all plain and bleh.

Edit: Hey, I just noticed that samus is glowing and the beam is shooting. That part is cool. So I vote animated without words. (Just pretend it's another choice or something)

Phazon Eater

2004-04-28 07:12:58 am

There we go! No name and I took a lot off the file size! :)

Wassup Dawgs

2004-04-28 02:04:05 pm

I think that's much better. Now if only you could make Samus shake due to recoil. But that would be a pain wouldn't it.

Phazon Eater

2004-04-28 03:33:40 pm

I could make Samus move, I just don't know what to move. Like should I move just her arm cannon or what? If I had an idea of this I could make it look even better...

-¤MaynardsTOOL¤-

2004-04-28 03:42:42 pm

If i had the file I could try....but adding a motion to Samus would ultimately up the file-size.... depending on how and which way you made her move, the number of frames needed to succeed in that animation, and how good it needs to look. Also if I could add, not to be picky or anything- but in my opinion, the image would look even cleaner if you took the embossed edges off from around it...

Wassup Dawgs

2004-04-28 06:26:35 pm

Quote from Phazon Eater:

I could make Samus move, I just don't know what to move. Like should I move just her arm cannon or what? If I had an idea of this I could make it look even better...

I'm not too sure about that. I haven't played prime in awhile. Does her cannon shake while shooting the phazon beam? If it does, try to make it look like it's shaking, but she is steadying herself.

MetalRidley

2004-04-28 06:31:29 pm

It gets forced forward and back due to the power of the beam.

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