Avatar Making
sweetpea4040:
Thank's Kielen. That would be wonderful.
I have been reading but there is alot to read. It would take me longer to figure it out by reading it all. I just want to get to the point, you know what I mean?
miros1:
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Thanks but it takes me to the Rar window and it wont let me load it. Im I doing something wrong?
Instead of double clicking a RAR file, you right click it and choose "Expand here."
Trepie22:
sweetpea4040 if you google 'cyd gif studio pro' you can download a trial of it.
It's a program to make GIFs - all you do is click 'New Wizard' in the file menu, and then follow the instructions [e.g. select the size of the GIF to make, choose the pictures to put in as the frames] and it makes it into an animated GIF for you. Then you just have to save it! It's quite simple and the GIFs are pretty good quality!
The trial gives you 20 uses of the program [i.e. if you open the program, you can make an unlimited amount of GIFs, but once you've closed the program you have used 1 of your 20 uses.] - but this should be enough for quite awhile :)
Here's a quick summary of how to use it:
Click New Wizard:
Select the size you want your avatar to be - you should select the size your images currently are because the built-in rescaling option of this program is not very good:
Choose where you want your frames to be positioned in the avatar. Usually you should choose Center - and stay away from the scale image down to fit option; it severely reduces the quality of your images. If you're going to resize your pictures do it in GIMP not here!
Choose the kind of animation you want your avatar to have - most people use infinite loop, so if you want that click infinity. You also need to set the time delay between frame change - here it is set to change every 1 second.
Here you choose what images you want as your frames - I've put the Little Stars banner first, and then one of the applicants headshots on a coloured background with their entry's name. You can then preview the animation if you wish.
Once you've done that click Finish and your avatar will have been made - now all you have to do is save it! [File > Save as ...]
sweetpea4040:
Wow I did it. I just have to put some text and other to get it the way I want. YAY. How do I post it to a thread? I have one that I did put I cant get it to post:-(
Kielen:
Awesome! Thanks Trepie!! I'm sorry I wasn't able to get something put for you yet, sweetpea. I've been insanely busy this week. I'll try again next week.
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