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Old 07-29-2004, 12:23 PM
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~~17, who wants to point out that her avatar is self-made too! :wink:
17 your avatar is also really cool, actually, all your avvys are. I like the style of them and especially the text, which you and nan both seem to use. What program/effects do you use to make them? Mine always end up as either a badly cropped googled pic or a badly cropped googled pic with bad text pasted on top. Oh, and then they get all fuzzy when i save them :mrgreen:
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Old 07-29-2004, 12:31 PM
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You could try having each new layer only be as large as the space needed to cover the change - most of the image is the same in every single frame.

Aside: what hardware problems did you have with Linux? My (ridiculously out-of-date) release of Mandrake seems to play nicely with everything except my speakers, and they're apparently going to work when I install a newer version.
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Old 07-29-2004, 12:41 PM
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Yes, I haven't been able to make that 'only save the change' thing work. When it does, it will drastically reduce the file in size.

And I had trouble with my printer, webcam (built in to the laptop screen) and a lot of other things. I alsy tried Mandrake first. I'm going to try Slackware next, but I heard laptops aren't ideal candidates for Linux.
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Old 07-29-2004, 12:56 PM
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Woohoo! 38.6KB! I made the 'only save the change' thing work! Plus the deletion of every other frame plus the reduction in colours.
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Down to 28KB. I never would have imagined. I never even lowered the amount of colours this time. It's 256. But Pov-Ray uses random dithering in its renders. That means there are insignificant changes in each frame. Now that I turned that off, much smaller fractions were saved.
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What program/effects do you use to make them?
I use Adobe Photoshop 5.5. The font is call 04b_03b, and it needs to be all in caps. The text layer needs the layer effect "outer glow", blurred to 1 pixel, at full strength, black, normal mode (instead of screen).

Only Adobe 5 and later have layer effects.

The single pixel border is done by hitting Select All, then Edit > Stroke > Width= 1px (or however big you want), Location= inside, opacity=100%, mode=normal.

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Old 07-29-2004, 09:34 PM
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See, there's another thing I can do with Photoshop (I have version & I think). I can't use ImageReady to save my life though.
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I like the avatar, Michiel! Thought it was Othello (or even Pente) at first though



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Try me at chess sometime, though. I'll paste you across the floor.
Oooooo... :twisted:
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Old 07-29-2004, 11:35 PM
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Try me at chess sometime, though. I'll paste you across the floor.
Oooooo... :twisted:
This i would love to see. I never thought of my self as being BAD at chess untill NAH beat me in 4 moves. :roll: ops:
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Old 07-29-2004, 11:37 PM
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Never EVER leave your KBP hanging out to dry in the opening, folks
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Old 07-30-2004, 07:27 AM
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:shock: 4 moves? *wishes there was a jaw drop smilie*

Thanks for that Nan, I'll give it a go in my next free time gap *wonders when that will be* :lol:

I've always sucked with photoshop, give up in frustration then, in anger, delete the program from my PC. Then, feeling stupid, load it back on, to have the whole sorry saga repeat itself :mrgreen:

But, now i have a vague idea of what affect i'm going for, and how to do it, I will try again
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Old 07-30-2004, 09:21 AM
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The single pixel border is done by hitting Select All, then Edit > Stroke > Width= 1px (or however big you want), Location= inside, opacity=100%, mode=normal.
Oh hey, I didn't know that! What I do is to manually use the selection tool to draw a box one pixel across and fill it in for each border. That's how come some of my avvies have three-pixel thick border with the middle pixel being of a different color or on overlay... I didn't know there was a faster way to do it.

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Old 07-30-2004, 10:51 AM
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Wow.

People who are worse at Photoshop than I am.

*Falls off chair*
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*hopes PHJ noticed that she planted three-inch iron nails, pointy side up all around his chair before he fell off it*

Pointy side up, get it? BWAAHA.
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Your puns hurt me with the pain of a thousand axes.


No, wait, that's just your axes.
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Old 07-31-2004, 09:03 PM
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A thousand? I thought that there were just the three.

Ouchie, by the way.
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I'm confident that in her hands, 3 axes could feel like a thousand.
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You flatter me. Be realistic, though... I might be able to manage that with four or five. Three though? I think that's stretching it juuust a little bit.
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See, this is why I prefer the flanged mace.
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Meh. I'm more of a puntbow man myself.

Oh yeah, that felt gooood...
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