[Iellwen_Eruanna]

I don't know how else to say it.

I want 4 or 5 banners in my sig, and I want to follow the rules. I've seen people with one sig banner slot that displays a bunch of different banners one at a time...sort of like a digital photo frame. Or a "my pictures" slideshow screensaver.

Is there an easy way to do this, or do you need expensive software? I just have basic photo editing software and Windows Movie Maker.

[Darth Futuza]

Do you have the GIMP? (It's free to download at Gimp.org) (It'll take about 10 minutes with hi-speed internet, if even that).


This sort of thing is easy to due with the GIMP just follow the following instructions:
1Create a new template with the size of 150x480 (max size here at IF)
2Open the already done banners that you want to 'slideshow' through
3Paste the first one onto the template (hopefully they are the same size, if not crop and scale them down)
4Go: Layers > Newlayer > and make a new transparent layer
5Paste the next banner onto this layer
6Repeat these steps until you've pasted each banner in a new seperate layer
7Go: Filters > Animation > Optimize (for GIF) Gimp will "optimize" the graphic and put it in a new window, minimize your first one and move onto the new one.
8Go: Filters > Animation > Playback In order to view your slideshow, it may go a bit faster then it actually will, but you can change that later.
9If satisfied save as a "filename".gif It will ask if you want to convert to grayscale or 256 color. Select 256 color say ok and then make sure the loop forever box is checked, delay between frames is where you want it (controls how fast it cycles between images), and then say save.
10The image will then save as a .gif and you can upload it online (it's a picture). Go ahead and put in your sig.

Hope that helps!

[Neya]

Is there a way to do that in Photoshop as well? There should be... Anyways do you DF or anyone else know how to do it in photoshop?

[Typhoon II]

Is there a way to do that in Photoshop as well? There should be... Anyways do you DF or anyone else know how to do it in photoshop?

You can't animate things in Photoshop, but you can with Adobe Imageready. Imageready came with my photoshop not sure about everybody else's.

[Requiem]

Is there a way to do that in Photoshop as well? There should be... Anyways do you DF or anyone else know how to do it in photoshop?

You can't animate things in Photoshop, but you can with Adobe Imageready. Imageready came with my photoshop not sure about everybody else's.

Yes, ImageReady comes with all versions of Photoshop (At least, CS and up does.. not 100% sure about below that). Although I personally think that it is rather tedious and frustrating when trying to animate in ImageReady.

Also, do you want it so that the signatures rotate constantly, or do you want a different sig to display every time the page is refreshed?

[mtbanger]

I'm pretty certain that Photoshop animates in pretty much the same was as GIMP. Although I haven't used PS for that myself.

[Neya]

Also, do you want it so that the signatures rotate constantly, or do you want a different sig to display every time the page is refreshed?

I was thinking rotating constantly.

[Requiem]

Also, do you want it so that the signatures rotate constantly, or do you want a different sig to display every time the page is refreshed?

I was thinking rotating constantly.

Ok, well that can be done in ImageReady, which should you should have if you have Photoshop. It's a little hard to explain, but I'll give it a shot. Basically, open up the signatures you want to use and put them onto a new document (and they will need to be the same size.. there is a way around that but it isn't really optimal) so that each sig is a seaparate layer.. so if you want to rotate 4 sigs, you will have 4 layers. Then you need to press the 'Edit in Imageready' button which should be at the very bottom of your tools palette in Photoshop.

Once you are in Imageready you need to make sure the Animation window is up. If it is not, go to the 'Window' submenu at the top and click Animation so that the window appears. Once the window is up, you will see a single frame in it. Now you need to make all layers but the bottom invisible, and after that click the duplicate frame button located beneath the frame area in the window. The more frames you have of the same image, the longer that image will stay up before the next image appears.

After you have duplicated the first frame a few times, choose the last frame and then make the second layer visible. Then you simply repeat the process until you have it the way you want it.


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EDIT - Once you are done, save the .psd if you wish, but to save it for the web click 'File' --> 'Preview In' --> And then select your internet browser.. a page will open up with the image specs and everything, simply right click the image, save it, and then upload it as you would any other sig.
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If that is unclear I'll try to explain it better. Below is an example I created (I had to use basic images because I am at school and don't have acess to my own works). I had 12 copies of each frame in this, but you can make it go much slower or much faster if you wish.




Also, I can do this for anyone without acess to Photoshop or ImageReady if you want.. just send me a PM or something.

This post has been edited by Requiem: 27 March 2008 - 09:18 AM

[Neya]

That's great! Thanks a lot

[Requiem]

That's great! Thanks a lot

Glad you like it

And I just noticed at my home computer that in CS3 the old ImageReady features have been merged into Photoshop.. so you'll be able to use the Animation window in Photoshop CS3.

[Under Fire]

So you want it to just flash through them? I thought by rotate, you meant like

I don't know how you would do that in anything other than GIMP

[Requiem]

So you want it to just flash through them? I thought by rotate, you meant like

I don't know how you would do that in anything other than GIMP

That is pretty neat, I've never seen that before... and yeah, that isn't possible in Photoshop. Maybe in something else, but I wouldn't know what.

[Neya]

So you want it to just flash through them? I thought by rotate, you meant like

I don't know how you would do that in anything other than GIMP

I really didn't think much about it, I just wanted to be able to switch between images, but that's really cool! You're welcome to post a tutorial in how to do that in GIMP, if it's not too much trouble I don't have GIMP on this computer but I'll just download it.

[DsKo]

I don't use GIMP, but I think all you'd have to do was apply a transition effect, not sure how it works on gimp.