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n°4994
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Posted on 12-15-2007 at 02:41:45 PM  
 

Hello All, new here but glad to have found this place.

 

After playing around with some of the tutorials I have come up with a fairly simple wall paper for my desktop (thanks Asher for Tut)
http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/thumbs/small/729968_pux75/purp-blue.jpg -edit - dial up beware

 

After creating this in PS I have changed the hue and now have 16 different hues of original image with the aim of making an animated desktop wallpaper so that I get a continuous change through the different colours.
The image size is 1650*1080 by the way.

 

First attempt was making an animated gif in image ready - over 300 frames and 39Mb gif :eek:
Unfortunately the quality of the gif image was rather degraded and the change between frames shows as the next frame is drawn on the screen.

 

Not dismayed I have now tried making an avi clip - 7min long with Ulead video Studio, with the aim of converting it to a flash movie to embed on a web page and use that as the wallpaper.  
This works and gives a nice smooth continuous transition from one image to the next.

 

However, I have just encoded it to Avi and it is a massive 63 GB  :ah:  so haven't converted to flash yet. plus have probably not encoded it correctly as it doesn't play in my media players.

 

So, here I am, asking for your advice. Is there a much easier way of doing this??

 

Many thanks

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Posted on 12-15-2007 at 02:41:45 PM  
 

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Posted on 12-15-2007 at 06:31:33 PM  
 

Welcome to CrXP :loveit:

 

It's good to see that you liked my tutorial :smile: , let me tell you onething :wink: , while making any graphic to be posted on a website you should take good care of size since not all visitors have enough internet speed for loading such large images , you should have chosen a smaller dimension for animation purposes because 3000 frames are too large for an animation even for a small sized one :oui: , it would have been even better if you had converted it into a Flash animation .

 

I hope you won't mind of what I have suggested you :angel: nice outcome Btw :great:

 

Have a nice stay :party:

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Posted on 12-15-2007 at 10:54:14 PM  
 

Fair point about size of image - see edit above.
Minor point but 300 - not 3000.

 

and another question. I haven't had anything to do with flash before so please excuse my ignorance, but if I was to make a flash animation using a smaller image size, when played on the desktop would it scale up (or is it possible to  stretch it) to fit the desktop which is 1650*1080px ?

 

and no, don't mind your suggestion
and yes, i'm quite pleased with the result.

 

Any help appreciated, thanks

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Posted on 12-16-2007 at 02:22:04 PM  
 

The bad thing is that I don't know much about Flash either :he: , but I have made some simple text animations in flash containing just faiding effect , these animations didn't lose there quality when I uploaded them on imageshack.us which in turn converted them to a much bigger version.
I am sure that if you zoom your flash animation according to your resolution then it won't give you bad result unless there are no any raster images (wallpapers , pictures etc)  in it :jap:

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