animated lo's????

[fmayabb]

anyone know how to do the new and so cool animated lo's?

thanks!

[BubblyKori]

Depending on your program and knowledge, it depends! If you use PSP, versions before PSP X (10) came with Animation Shop. There are lots of tutorials, just Google. I believe Photoshop users may need PS Illustrator. There are lots of other animation programs.

[lindse]

If you use PS you can use imageready!
My only "concern" is that is has to be a gif file..and can you put in most galleries then? Most galleries only accepts jpg files..

[Pixeldigger]

Photoshop elements allows you to make small .gifs
Save for web, then click gif and animate and fiddle about with the timings until you get what you want.

[DesignsByDiva]

Adding an animation to a layout is difficult for many reasons. You can not simply add an animation like you would add an element. You have to create one massive animation out of your layout. The file size would be monsterous and most galleries will not accept them due to the size alone.

Animations are created by creating one frame for each piece of the animation. In order to do a layout even with the smallest twinkle you'd have to create one layout page with the small change for as many times as there are changes in the animation itself. If you use PSP's Animation shop it would be one frame. For Photoshop you can use Imageready and they would be layers.

Quite honestly while they are cute they are not a resonable thing to create.

Barbie

[Belles]

There really is only any point in doing them for use on the web or in emails, avatars maybe. Therefore doing an animation you need to resize your whole layout down to 72 or 96dpi to save on file size and then doing this with a scrapbook layout would mean you would lose so much of the intricate detail that it really is not worth it.

Before I got into digital scrapbooking I did a lot of animated tags, which is what they are called and made mine using layers in PSP and then assembled them to animate in Animation Shop and saved them as gifs from there.

Just a small tip ---- Having a solid background rather than a transparent background actually saves on file size with animations. Transparent backgrounds for some reason make the files a lot bigger and they don't lend themselves to having drop shadows on them very well either.

This is one of the last major animations I would have done before I started digital scrapbooking. Fits this time of year as well ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/Helebelles/VoodooHalloween2_byBelles05.gif

[zazou]

cool Helen!