27-05-2001 01:26									#1
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It takes up alot of the screen (more than anyone elses) is this the way everyones is, and you see it differently. Or does mine just defy the rules?

It is afterall,.art. And not a JPG or GIF

	27-05-2001 01:39									#2
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Stop bragging!

	27-05-2001 02:53									#3
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quote: Or does mine just defy the rules?

Yep... And I fail to see why it is art...

	27-05-2001 03:11									#4
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The size limit is 64 by 64 pixels. Edit it, or if you want to keep it, and don't have an image editor, email it to me, and I'll resample it down to 64 by 64, then post it for you and send you back the file.

edit - yours is 195 by 150, and affects the page layout, so I'm removing it temporarily until you get one in there that's less than 64 by 64, or send it to me to fix for you.

	27-05-2001 05:14									#5
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Michael, do you know where I could get a good, free GIF-editor?

	27-05-2001 05:19									#6
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Zopper - I don't, simply because I'm so used to my good, expensive one - Photoshop.

I'm sure someone here does, and maybe google will have links to about a billion of them, but I have no idea what all is out there, or how good they are.

	27-05-2001 05:23									#7
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OK...I have Photoshop, but I don't know how to resize a GIF-animation in Photoshop, is that possible?
Oh, BTW, I've just downloaded a trial of JASC's Animation Shop, I think it will do the trick...

	27-05-2001 05:24									#8
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MTG, I don't think you should identify the Cool Hand Luke quote. If you're not assigning the Star Trek quote, let the philistines figure out the 'Cool' one.

Waaaaaaaah. I still don't have my own Avatar.

I can eat 50 eggs!

	27-05-2001 06:30									#9
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MTG, what can I use to trim it down to size?

	27-05-2001 07:53									#10
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MBloom - it's a matter of generations. Lots of these young whippersnappers have never seen Cool Hand Luke. The Borg quote is much more recent.

Saddam - you have to resample it, not crop it, otherwise, you'll just lose part of the image. If you don't have a program for that, send it to me, and I can fix it up and send it back to you in a few minutes.

Zopper - Photoshop (at least 5.5) doesn't support animated gifs as animations, as far as I know.

	27-05-2001 08:32									#11
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Zopper,

I heard that Ulead's GIF Animator is good, however I haven't used it before. Maybe they have a demo you can try?

	27-05-2001 12:10									#12
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quote: Photoshop (at least 5.5) doesn't support animated gifs as animations

But Photoshop comes with ImageReady which is great for optimizing and animating images. I made my avatar in ImageReady.

	27-05-2001 13:27									#13
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Cool - I never bothered with ImageReady, since I just do large scale photos and painting textures into converted vector drawings.

	27-05-2001 16:53									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Zopper, I heard that Ulead's GIF Animator is good, however I haven't used it before. Maybe they have a demo you can try?

Well, the Animation Shop from JASC will do as well, but I'll give this one a try too...thanks

	28-05-2001 08:11									#15
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Hueij,

Hm..., maybe I should give ImageReady a try. It's just gathering positive ions sitting on the HDD right now

	28-05-2001 10:57									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Hueij, Hm..., maybe I should give ImageReady a try. It's just gathering positive ions sitting on the HDD right now

Well, to be honest, I didn't know what to do with it either until a couple of weeks ago when I saw a friend of mine decreasing the filesize of an image with over 75% without any loss of quality.

Besides that it's great for making interactive animated buttons

	28-05-2001 16:47									#17
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quote: Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat Cool - I never bothered with ImageReady, since I just do large scale photos and painting textures into converted vector drawings.

And where can we see your art work??

	28-05-2001 17:21									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Hueij Well, to be honest, I didn't know what to do with it either until a couple of weeks ago when I saw a friend of mine decreasing the filesize of an image with over 75% without any loss of quality. Besides that it's great for making interactive animated buttons

I'm not a big fan of those animated Webpage widgets. They used to be all over the place but thankfully not anymore. What's worse though now Flash is everywhere

However shrinking file size is a very interesting property that bears further investigation.

	28-05-2001 17:57									#19
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The resizing is indeed interesting and judging from my avatar you can probably guess that I haven't been very good at it

	29-05-2001 01:24									#20
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quote: I'm not a big fan of those animated Webpage widgets. They used to be all over the place but thankfully not anymore. What's worse though now Flash is everywhere However shrinking file size is a very interesting property that bears further investigation.

Well, what I meant was an easy way to create mouse-over buttons and such

About shrinking sizes: my (moving) avatar is about 2/3rd the size of yours

	29-05-2001 17:58									#21
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Hey, thanks folks, this ImageReady is very cool