Rotating Signatures....

Many people have contacted me on HOW to make a signature like I did for Homemommie.

As far as I know, there aren't free programs out there to make them. I have the right software to make them and made an Animated GIF file for her. From there she uploaded it into her Photobucket files and "voila" she had an animated signature.

While cool and smaller ,the issue's with animated signatures is that they take more file space then ONE image. Load times to put them through a dial up connection can be slow causing the load times, for threads with them, to also become slow.

The 300 size pictures would take 30 seconds to load. Where as a 100 would take about 6 seconds. Image sizes for signatures are very important in the proper opperation of a board. The smaller the pixel sizes the better.

Hope some of that helps you all to know about the rotating signature blocks. Happy Collecting!

I use Adobe Imageready (mac) to make animated GIFs, but there are some free programs out there.

Microsoft GIF Animator is what I used on my old computer and it is free.

http://www.jhepple.com/gif_animator.htm

However, you have to save the seperate images to GIFs before you animate them, which makes it more difficult to use than some of it's commercial counterparts.

In case people wanted to see how it actually works, I decided to animate Kaya

We start with 3 images

http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/9062/kaya19ip.gifhttp://img367.imageshack.us/img367/7524/kaya20ex.gifhttp://img327.imageshack.us/img327/8497/kaya33ct.gif

Then put them together

http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/2183/mixitup5dr.jpg

Save and VO?LA!

http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/140/kayaanim7zk.gif

Talking, blinking Kaya

Adobe Imaeready is the same program I use. Absolutely adore it!

Thanks for taking some screen shots to show what I was talking about [img]wink.gif[/img] For the most part it is easier to make then explain how I do what I do and the whys as well.

I usually just make them for non computer savy people [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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Originally posted by Sail-Away:
Adobe Imaeready is the same program I use. Absolutely adore it!

Thanks for taking some screen shots to show what I was talking about [img]wink.gif[/img] For the most part it is easier to make then explain how I do what I do and the whys as well.

I usually just make them for non computer savy people [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LOL well so far I'm the resident computer nerd. Photoshop, flash, java, you name it. The truth is I just need a life, heh