Hey, atabei!

[spedbug]

Bountifulpots said you could tell me how to make an icon that moves (changes text, image, etc.). I've got limited computer skills but would like to give it a try. Any tips?

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[atabei.livejournal.com]

I use ImageReady to make animated gifs. The program comes with PhotoShop- you basically make a new layer for each stage of the animation and ImageReady lets you set the timing for each transition, whether it loops or not, etc.
Does that help you at all?
I'm on CS2 but before that I had 7 and ImageReady was part of the package then too.
(Neopets Icon= really simple animation, I'd done it with fading in-out transitions but that made the file larger than LJ allows for icons so I made it simpler)

[atabei.livejournal.com]

Here's another animated icon I made and there are a couple blinkies and maybe an animated doll or two inthis entry:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/atabei/67296.html

[antof9.livejournal.com]

OK speddy :)

Check out that link I posted as "quads-only" -- the only reason the entry was locked was because I didn't think *everyone* on my friends list would think it was as interesting as we did :) Nothing secretive about it, and quite frankly, it's entertaining. Just might help you laugh off that remaining Jury Butt.

Re: the SOP reference in the post -- you might not know this, but Chromie and Atabei are scientists. Real-live, honest-to-goodness geek girls! Once, when discussing the dying of my roots (might have been when I posted an "old" post with this icon and freaked out atabei -- she was very concerned about my avatar!), someone mentioned following the SOP. Surprisingly, the artsy-fartsy sister (me) knew what that stood for! We all fell over (collectively), and have referenced it from time to time :)

These seem to be the most popular animation programs

[atabei.livejournal.com]

on the pixel forums right now. :-)

Free 30 day trial:
Animation Shop

Freeware:
GIMP
Unfreeze

[atabei.livejournal.com]

LOL, you're welcome :-)