Post by electrastar on Dec 15, 2006 19:11:58 GMT -8
sweetlittlemarty said:
electrastar said:
Woah, sorry for answering so late.
Well, first, to make an animated .gif from a video, you need software that can take screenshots. I used to take the very old version of Windows Media Player, but now, I use something called 'Virtual Dub" it's wonderful, it takes all the screenshots by itself, no more painstaking manual screenshot taking.
For Virtual dub, you need to explore it a little to understand how it works, its quite easy, I figured it out, if not, i'll post an explanation.
After all my screenshots are taken, I open up Photoshop and start placing each image (I'll came them frame from now on) one after the other in the proper order. Making a gif with a video is basically making an animation from individual images. Once all your images are placed in order, crop them to the size you want and open up Adobe Image Ready (which is included with Photoshop) and make your animation.
Maybe some people use other methods and software, but I learned all of this in a class and I'm pretty much used to it and have become quite skilled at it, its all a question of practice.
Thank you very much for your answer!
Actually I don't have any of the softwares you mentioned (expect Windows Media Player, but I have never known how to take screenshots by WMP...) Perhaps I'm going to get all those softwares some day, Photoshop is a quiet valuable software, people seem to use it very often, so now that it can also help me in gif-making I really have to get it somehow.
Making a gif seems to be more difficult than I thought, but it worth it! You know, Sometimes I love to fiddle with things like this. It seems to be so interesting, that you make the gifs from individual images, it's like making a cartoon, wow, I love it!
By the way, the gif where Dave's falling asleep on the table is really lovely, I wonder where is this from?
nope,my name had something to do with alan & martin in the name,but i just cant remember what was the full name
Wonderful! That means there are lots of Gorettes around the world!
The best way to learn any software is to fiddle around with it at first. That's how I learned Photoshop and believe me, I'm still learning it...but I have come a long way since I started fooling around with it.
The .gif of Dave on the table is from the "Its no Good" projection that was shown in the backround when the song was played during the "Exciter" tour, I ripped it from my dvd.