Animated Avatars are BACK!

Paid subscribers can now upload animated .gif files as avatars once again. :D

You are too good to us Nicole :throblove

Oh my gosh!!! You are so awsome. I love you!!! I missed those so much.

Thanks so much Nicole!!!

THANKS, NICOLE!!! :D

Can someone tell me how to do this? I have CS2. Thanks!

Thank you so much!!!

Shannon, it's pretty simple. I figured it out using PS's Help section. I think I searched for animated gif or animation. If you don't figure it out using the Help section, I can type up some instructions tomorrow. I'm off to bed for the night. :)

Shannon, it's pretty simple. I figured it out using PS's Help section. I think I searched for animated gif or animation. If you don't figure it out using the Help section, I can type up some instructions tomorrow. I'm off to bed for the night. :)
Thanks! I'm off to play now. :)

Woo-hoo!

cool.

Okay, I'm going through the Help section and I still don't get it. Can anyone give me *Animated Avatars for Dummies* instructions? :)

shannon, i use image ready and set up all the different layers i need for everything i want. like for instance, if you want like 4 pics to rotate, i have pic one as layer 1, pic 2 and layer 2, etc. Then on the bottom it gives you a line with your "frames". I dup the frames until i have as many frames as i need (in this example, 4) then on frame one, I select to only view layer 1, on frame i only make layer 2 visible, frame 3 i only make layer 3 visible, and so on. Hope that's not too confusing

ETA: oh, and you have to "save optimized images as"

Shannon, here's how I do it. Remember, animated gifs are just different layers that rotate frame by frame. So whatever layer you have will show up as it's own frame, unless it's merged with another. I use Image Ready to do my gifs. I suggest you start out in reg. PS though. Get your layers ready, re-sized and in the order you want them to rotate, then follow these steps. If you do not have the animation window already open, go to the top and check it under the 'window' menu to open. Then click on the arrow in the right corner of that box, and select "Make frames from layers". You should now see all your different layers appear side by side.

In that box, you'll see where it says 0 sec., below each layer. Click on that to select how long you want the delay between the next frame. You'll do this for each layer, or click on that arrow again in the right corner, and hit select all frames, if you want them all to have the same delay time. This will save some time. Next you'll see where it says "forever", below that. This is where you decide if you want the gif to rotate through the frames only once, or if you want it to repeat itself over and over. You'll want to select forever. Now hit the play arrow below those images to preview your gif. Once you're done with that, go to file- save for web. In this window you can further edit your gif if you want. However, I've never really messed with it, and just hit save. Now, hopefully I didn't confuse the heck out of you.

ETA: This is instructions for a simple animated gif. Now if you want images that fade in and out, and all that jazz, it gets a little more complicated.

Thanks, Laura and Jackie! I'm trying it out right now. :)

WOOHOO!!! :banana I got it! :bounce

Thanks Nicole!

& Thanks Laura & Jackie for the instructions! :D

Hey Laura, do you know to do the fading in and out? I've never messed with that, but I'd like to try it. :)

This will be fun!!!

I only have 2006 Microsoft Image Suite Plus ... can I do this?? I would like to be able to have a few rotating pictures, not anything "animated".

Hey Laura, do you know to do the fading in and out? I've never messed with that, but I'd like to try it. :)

I haven't really tried this since we got CS2. But with elements, I would basically duplicate the image several times, then change the opacity for each layer so it had a fade in and fade out effect. I'm assuming it works the same way in CS2, or Image ready, but it may be a lot faster. I'll have to give it a try when I get home. I'm at my parents right now.

I only have 2006 Microsoft Image Suite Plus ... can I do this?? I would like to be able to have a few rotating pictures, not anything "animated".

That's what I have too. I was able to create rotating pictures (Tools; Flipbook), but when I save it, it doesn't work. :scratch

That's what I have too. I was able to create rotating pictures (Tools; Flipbook), but when I save it, it doesn't work. :scratch

I'll try my hand at that and see if it doesn't work for me either. Thanks Kristy!

YAY! I did it! Did just what you said you did and it works!

now if i could only figure them out!

YAY! I did it! Did just what you said you did and it works!

Cool! I got mine to work too. :D