Well since I modified my avatar and signature last time, I saw that many people wanted to know how I did that
How I gave such lifeness? So here is the answer in a tutorial

Okey lets start the resurrection of our Avatars and Signatures
First lets add some blinking stars in to our avatar.

Note To get the successful results, I recommend to use Adobe Imageready CS2

Basically you can follow all this with only Image ready application but since I'm a much addict towards Photoshop I'll use both

Hey I forgot to say, a nice music please

Ok first of all, find a better avatar to add blinking stars or just design one





Then go to the layer at the top.
Press Ctrl+Shift+N to create a new layer at the top & name it 'Star 1'

Select a white to transparent gradient and from the gradient type, choose 'Diamond'



Put a little star in the 'Star 1' layer like this,



Then Press Ctrl+Shift+N to build up anothe layer and name it 'Star 2'
Put another white star in that layer like this (not in the same place as 'Star 1' )



So then, as for your desire, add many stars as you like, but remember, each star must have it's own layer (a layer must contain only one star)

As for mine, I created nine stars in nine layers



but in the canvas, they look like this,



Ok now it's the time to press the magic button

Switch to Image Ready now

or just press Ctrl+Shift+M

When you oen the document in Image ready, make sure to open the 'Animation' window



Let's start working

First of all select the opasity of the all star layers (Star 1-Star 8) to 0% but Keep the last star layer (Star 9) opasity to 100%



Go to the animation Window,

Hit Duplicate Current Frame and you'll have another frame



Go to the Frame No 2 from the Animation Window and there, set the 'Star 9' Opasity to 0% and 'Star 1' Opaity to 100%

In the Canvas It'll look like this



Now press the Tween Button in the Animation Window (With Frame 2 Selected)



In the Tween Parameters, Set the number of Frames to add to 5 (the other parameters are not important to be discussed here)



Hit 'OK' and you'll see new Five frames between the ones you've edited



If you play the animation now,



It'll look like this



Ok now, enough with viewing a part let's finish this

Go to the last frame from the 'Animation Window' (Frame 7) and there, hit to Duplicate the Frame.

In the new frame, set 'Star 1' Opasity to 0% and 'Star 2' Opasity to 100%

Tween them now ( you'r previous parameters will be saved automatically. So you don't want to change the number of 'Frames to Add' )

Then Go back to the last Frame,

Set 'Star 2' Opasity = 0%
'Star 3' Opacity = 100%

Repeat this untill you change,

'Star 8' Opacity = 0%
'Star 9' Opacity = 100%

Now there should be 55 Frames in the Animation Window

If you play the animation now, you must obtain this



And now Go to File>Save Optimised and give a god damn name to the gif

Ok It's over now.

Have some nice coffee till I continue this thread in telling how to get this



This post has been edited by Neil: Aug 5 2006, 06:47:51 PM

Thanks for this Neil, I appreciate this

EDIT: I have done the tutorial and it looks mighty fine but it's too large to upload onto CrystalXP.

 Foggy.gif ( 59.37K ) Number of downloads: 197

You're Welcome Draginol
and I hope most of others will also like this

I'm working with the sig animation I'll post it soon here

Good work

That is a really nice tutorial.

I liked it.

Actually, I loved it.

I will post an outcome soon.

Thanks NanOme, of course I have also used your techniques here

I'll be looking forward to your result

Off topic Thread re-named

Got any suggestions on how to reduce the size of the .gif?

Why? what's the problem?

Well you see I couldn't upload it as my avatar because it was too large, but I fixed it now.

Nice Avater reflections Draginol and please excuse my delay I'll post the way how to reflect your signature soon

Great, looking forward to it.

this is a great tutorial Neil...
I'll post my result soon....

BTW...I think it will be better if someone edit the topic title to :" Make animated refl......"

Edit*: My result is my avatar ... The image size got a little too big , so i had decrease the quality of the image...

Nice outcome [acdcrocks[/b]



'Give Animated Reflections' is a similer topic

Well, the size limitation 30KB is for files you're using for avaters from your machine



If you have an avater a little more than the mentioned (should be 128x128) you can upload the avater in to the web and then give the link

TIP: If you want an excellent quality .GIF it is going to be big So what I did was used a service like ImageShack hosting to upload an image and then use the 'URL' option in the avatar settings to use it from there

Enjoy

ok... i couldnt resist myself to try this.. lol...

please not that its still done with image ready 7 .. (Crap)..


and please continue with the tutorial about the bar effect, im done with my coffee

Great outcome de lioncourt
I'm shure Neil is sweating over his keyboard to finish the next part of the tutorial...

Nice animation de lioncourt



Quite right acdcrocks but it keeps enlarging
you see I had this nice idea of getting another nice animation specially got signatures which I saw from a local TV program
So I'm trying to make a tutorial to show how to do both of them

Can't wait for this

Post Edited

Ok this is one way to add a reflecting line in to your Signature

First, Select your signature or userbar.



Then Create a New layer over the current layer(s) and name it 'Ref line'

Now select White to Transparent gradient and select Reflected Gradient Type



Now click on an area like the green dot in the picture and drag the mouse in the direction of the red arrow. (You can customize your reflected lines as you like I'll give you samples in the end)



Then you'll have a Ref Line like this



Now Create another new layer and fill it with any color you want

Go to the Layers window and reduse the new layer's Color fill to o%

Now go to that layer's blending options and give the following parameters



Now you'll obtain this



You can change the Fill Type and the color according to the
main color in your Signature or User bar.
Try to give a color darker than the one in your creation

Now Switch to ImageReady

Select the 'Ref Line' and move it out of the Left Edge of the canvas
your 'Ref Line' should be placed like this



The blue rectangle is just a reseblance to show you where the layer should be & it won't be shown in your design area

Now click Duplicate Current Frame button in the Animation Window & go to frame 2

There, Move the 'Ref Line' layer out of the Right Edge of the canvas.



Now Hit Tween button

Set the Frames to add to 20 or 30



Hit Ok

Now play the animation.



So enjoy the animated reflections