| Using
video or digital camera for self-portrait Open
your video image in Photoshop.
To change the background of your image to white, use lasso tools (hold Alt key when
clicking).
Feather your selection by 2 pixels before cutting the background to white
foreground. Save your image as p1.jpg into your WebPages folder.
Creating images for GIF animation
Open your portrait image taken from video camera in Photoshop.
Resize it to 300 x 400 pixels end save as CompuServe GIF.
Name it p1.gif and save.
Now apply some filters (Distort, Artistic) and save this new image as CompuServe
GIF -
p2.gif. You can create a few more
images (p3, p4), starting
always from p1.jpg.
When reducing the final image to indexed color
GIF
format. Ensure that there is no dithering set. The reason you do not want dithering
for the GIF image is that with solid colors the GIF converter tends to fill them with a
two-tone mesh in an attempt to recreate the base color. When this occurs you will not be
able to set a good GIF transparency. So turn off the dithering!
Using GIF Animator
Use Animation Wizard from File menu, which will guide you through
the process. Experiment with different settings.
A
Maple College student worked
part-time as a waiter in a restaurant::
Customer: Waiter! What's that
thing at the bottom of my plate?
Waiter: That's the design, sir.
Customer: But it's moving !!!!
Waiter: It's an animated gif, sir. |
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