Tutorial animated signature

**Cold As Ice** · 03-12-2011, 07:06 PM

First get one or two pics you want to use.

Resize the pics in photoshop. Resize them to 160 high.

Get a vid (from youtube) you want to use, i did it with DownloadHelper in FireFox. I went for a HD-vid but can be done with normal vid as well.

Turn on "animation" in Photshop.

Import the vid in Photoshop.

Select the vid you want to use, then the frames.

Make sure you don't have to many frames, somewhere around 80 frames. You may need to delete some frames later if sig would be over 1,5 MB

Resize the gif part to 140 high. Select all frames and copy them.

Paste the frames in the non moving part.

Select all layers of the gif for moving it to the right place.

After the move you need to turn on the non moving for every frame.

Then create a new layer for the borders, make sure every frame is selected. For the border of the gif part it's best to turn off the non moving part.

You can add a text on it.

Then save it for web and devices.

Then upload it to an allowed host

**Cold As Ice** · 03-12-2011, 07:08 PM

Feel free to ask when you got a problem.

**Jammsbro** · 03-12-2011, 09:04 PM

Brilliant Tut mano. I will be giving this a go in about half an nour. Once i get a beer in me!

**AFX** · 03-13-2011, 01:03 PM

Nice tutorial Cold, I really didn't know you could do all this in PS. Definitely gonna try it out some time.

**AFX** · 03-13-2011, 07:50 PM

Is it possible to apply filters like sharpen to the video Cold?

**Cold As Ice** · 03-13-2011, 09:14 PM

Originally Posted by AFX

Is it possible to apply filters like sharpen to the video Cold?

I didn't try that

**Cy!** · 03-14-2011, 06:09 PM

can you apply effects as a group?

also, can we use dreamweaver to do all this as an animation over a simple picture background and embed it?
something like,
create new object > frame 550x160 > background image> layer > embed video object > layer >border > save as embedded object group and use it as a sig?

may be a bit far afield from your tut, but it seems very similar to how web page header fields are done if partially animated.

I like it, dont use photoshop myself but i think i can adapt it to GAP. Thanks Cold

**Cold As Ice** · 03-14-2011, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by Cy

can you apply effects as a group?

What effects?

also, can we use dreamweaver to do all this as an animation over a simple picture background and embed it?

I don't use dreamweaver, so i can't help you on that

**Cy!** · 03-15-2011, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by Cold As Ice

What effects?

for instance the border you put around the clip frames. if you group those layers will it allow you to frame them all at once?

**Cold As Ice** · 03-15-2011, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by Cy

for instance the border you put around the clip frames. if you group those layers will it allow you to frame them all at once?

If you make a new layer after you put the vid on it's place the border will effect all frames

**scan11381** · 03-22-2011, 06:51 PM

hay bro pls post picures in tutorial again i cannot see it pls pls pls

**Jammsbro** · 03-22-2011, 07:10 PM

I know. I went to try it for the first time the other day and there were no images.

**Cold As Ice** · 03-22-2011, 07:24 PM

http://www.nopoppics.com/ seems dead

**Jammsbro** · 03-22-2011, 07:31 PM

Thanks for the reup Cold

**scan11381** · 03-23-2011, 09:22 AM

thanks bro

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