Every Nice Sunday Afternoon

Been going nuts trying to learn how to make animated gifs. Found a new program DP (Desktop Paints) Animation Maker, had it and had forgotten it does special effects. so the light rays and small sparkles are from there. These are just first few I've tried, to get the logistics down with SOME realistic aesthetic appeal. Jasc Animation Shop that used to ship with PaintShop Pro 7 and 8 (I have 7 plus newer version PSP x4 Ultimate) is really a big help and fairly easy. The Photoshop CS6 timeline animation is for supergeeks, I end up saving as PSD and importing to Jasc which converts but at least Photoshop gives brush capabilities plus turns frames to layers and vice versa. Enough. Confusing myself again. TOO many programs and tutorials which all teach differently. blah.











The small gif at top made with DP Animation effects was also made in large mode, trying to upload to Photobucket to get the code for here is quite the task, takes awhile for large 77mb files. Kept calling error before finished. So cut size and it uploaded. BUT lost its' animation. SO have to make size reasonable when making the gif I guess. Here is still shot anyway. sucks.





I then did a globe on DP which turned out pretty well. Nice program from Desktop Paints. Photobucket got to 93% then errored out on me. Not happy. Only 46mb file too. SO I made it smaller and zip it uploaded in a flash. and like last one, lost animation. damn. Back to DP.





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