Banners/Recip Buttons...
 

i want to make a few banners & recips for my website kinda like this one;

http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/GFY-120x60-001.gif

can anyone throw some advice my way?

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Be lucky and have Instant offer to do free design stuff so he can build up a portfolio! http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/biggrin.gif

Cheers

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yea i did post in that thread about wanting a recip or two done for his 'folio.

but i was wondering for future refernce , I would ask now so I knew how to do it on my own in the future http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/biggrin.gif



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"We are all porn stars , just some of us are brave enough to do it on film!"
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prepare :
- adobe photoshop
- gif software
- go for tutorial at
http://www.designsbymark.com http://www.screamdesign.com

etc


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Do you have Flash? I find it really good for making animations and exporting to gif.

Hey, what do you think of this? I did this in Flash in about 15 minutes. I'm obviously no expert designer, but if you are talented with graphics programs you could come up with some really good stuff using Flash to make gifs.

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[This message has been edited by evildick (edited 09-03-2001).]

Ah, well I suppose I should try to help then! I will use the GFY button as my guinea pig, I hope they don't mind.. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/biggrin.gif

ANIMATED GRAPHICS HOW-TO (Long)


Step 1:
Basically what I would do is think up what I want to happen in my button/banner; whatever it is you are making -- keep in mind each frame you have adds download size to the graphic. Also during this step you should decide the dimension of the graphic you want. The follow are the standard dimensions:

type (width by height pixels)
Full banner (468 by 60 pixels)
Half banner (234 by 60 pixels)
Vertical banner (120 by 240 pixels)
Standard button (120 by 60 pixels)
Square button (125 by 125 pixels)
Micro button (88 by 31 pixels)

Over the years people have developed some ignorance to graphics these sizes, they associate them with advertising banners. I haven't personally experimented with different sizes, I think it would have to be a different in the ratio (width by height) in order to make people notice it more.

Also, the dimension of the graphic will logically affect the download size.


Step 2:
This is when my brain stops working and I have to remember what to do next for all you folks using this.

Once you have decided the dimensions, what you want the graphic to look like, now you must start the creation stage! But no fear! It's not too hard... as long as you can use a graphics program such as Adobe Photoshop to create your individual frames! If you don't know how to use any graphics programs then it still isn't hard to learn and there are many tutorials online; just search at Google for '(program name) tutorials'.


Step 3:
Okay, you've created the frames you wanted to use you'll need a GIF animator program. I have always used Jasc Animation Shop for creating animations and found it quite easy to figure it out on my own when I first started out.

I'm going to use Animation Shop and you using my guinea pig show you what stuff looks like. I'm sure there are tutorials online that go more indepth than I am going into right now, maybe eventually I'll make a full tutorial.

Screenshot of GFY button opened in Animation Shop (click to enlarge):
http://www.nysus.com/main-thumb.jpg

Okay, well now you're probably wondering how you'd get your own images in place of those. Animation Shop has a nice little Animation Wizard feature. Simply go to File and then click Animation Wizard and follow the instructions!

Once you finish the Wizard your graphics will pop up in a row like you saw the GFY ones in the screenshot above. You can then proceed to set the individual times of each frame by right-clicking on the frame you wish to edit and clicking Frame Properties.

I'm pretty pooped of typing right now, if you have any questions you can put them on here or send me an ICQ message, I'd be glad to answer them.

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Jasc Animation Shop is $39 USD and they have a 30 day evalution period availible to download - Link

I believe there is also an evaluation availible for Adobe Photoshop - Link
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I'm sure I probably messed something up in while typing this so I'm sure I will have to edit it, I hope I didn't forget anything majorly important either!!

Oh, and the best advice I can possibly give is EXPERIMENT & GO FUCK YOURSELF!

Here's a little self-experimental fucking myself I did...
http://www.nysus.com/GFY-120x70-NYSUS.gif

Cheers

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Hey, that's pretty sweet. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/biggrin.gif

Where in Ontario are you from? Kingston here. Do you have ICQ?

Cheers

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[This message has been edited by Nysus (edited 09-03-2001).]

Very informative, Nysus! thx http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

Thanks nysus!

I live in a small town near London, Ontario, (just a few hours from Toronto.)

I don't have ICQ, but it seems everyone else here does, so I might have to download it!

You're very welcome. I read it over again and realize I forgot s few small details that I would have liked to mention, but alwell. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/biggrin.gif

Cheers

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I think you should get it to, added a couple people already from the area.. Would be useful if the people in the same area were to go to conferences and plan a trip together - would cut costs.. or just be more fun! http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/biggrin.gif

Cheers

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You can simply use fireworks and get nice and quick results.. http://www.macromedia.com/software/fireworks/
and there is a trial download available too..

Awww..Thank you SOOOOOOOO MUCHHHHH! http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/biggrin.gif I love it!!!!!!!!

Thats pretty sweet lookin!! I'm definatly gonna use that!! Thanks again, EVIL!! *kisses*
http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/biggrin.gif



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"We are all porn stars , just some of us are brave enough to do it on film!"
http://www.plauder-smilies.de/yellows/kiss2.gif Jamie's Stable

And a BIG BIG thanks to Nysus for all the details on How-To http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/biggrin.gif

Way Cool !!!!!!!!!! (i copied & saved your message for future refernces too http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/wink.gif )

XOXOXOXOXOXXO's!!!!

oh, by the way, i have Adobe Photo Deluxe..its my scanner software. is it possible to use that to make .gif's??