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Just a bump to make sure it doesnt get deleted due to inactivity...
I managed to shave 150K off your avatar by reducing the colours to 127 in Paint Shop Pro's Animation Shop. It still looks the same to me :-)
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Just a bump to make sure it doesnt get deleted due to inactivity...
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FYI, posts in the Guides forum don't get deleted. Happy happy, joy joy 
*Runs off to make an avatar of me herding*
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I managed to shave 150K off your avatar by reducing the colours to 127 in Paint Shop Pro's Animation Shop. It still looks the same to me :-)
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Is that all? 
I managed to half its size by using the GIF animator. Got it down to 100 colour or something. I just need to change the link to point to the 400k one as opposed to the 800k one.
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Just a bump to make sure it doesnt get deleted due to inactivity...
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FYI, posts in the Guides forum don't get deleted. Happy happy, joy joy
*Runs off to make an avatar of me herding*
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Thanks. Didnt know that. Didnt want to loose the info
Hey The_Spinning_Top, thanks for the tips.
After some painful positioning of my chars, I managed to make this... What do you all think?
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Mister Marbles - Ice/Rad Controller
Glass Titan - Elec/En Blapper
Miss Marbles - Inv/Fire Tanker
Chef Jinglemerry - Spines/DA Scrapper
Blood Envy - WP/DB Tanker
Velvette - WS
My Custom Demos
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Hey The_Spinning_Top, thanks for the tips.
After some painful positioning of my chars, I managed to make this... What do you all think?
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Awesome!
awesome tips Spinning Top
<---------- my first try
i just dont know how to make an avatar nor get 1
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i just dont know how to make an avatar nor get 1
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Hey, it worked. Groovy.
Thanks for the guide
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Personally, I think "between two avatars, the size of the page download just increased by over 1 mb." Am I the only one who finds this unacceptable?
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Probably.
Of course, you should be able to disable avatars from the "My Home" link. And once you've seen them, they stay in your cache and don't need to be downloaded again 
awesome thanks getting to work on it now
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Can't wait to get mine going now that I've seen all these cool ones. Have you guys seen the one with spider man dancing? Do you think DC is going to get peeved if they see that as someones avitar?
bunp
WOO-HOO! I did it!
Thanks a ton!
Does anyone know if Paint Shop Pro 9 will make animated gifs? I just want to know if it's possible, but instructions from someone who has done it would be cool too.
[url="http://celestialguardians.guildportal.com"]Celestial Guardians SG[/url]: Chris Mas Snow 50 Ice/Storm Ctl, Li Zhou 42 MA/Rgn Scrp, Dui Zhou 32 Ice/FF Ctl, TinyTaxi 35 Emp/Psi Def
[url="http://tinyurl.com/y66drr"]UnAlliance VG[/url]: Shar Chi 37 Nin/Drk MM, La Vida Loca 16 Pl/Psi Dom
Well I used paint pro 8 for mine so I would assume yes.
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I made my current animated avatar in Adobe Imagready CS. If you've used it, how would you compare it to the Ulead package?
I like Imageready, but there are a couple things in it that drive me mad.
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Heh, I have the CS2 Suite also, Imageready has a lot of features I wouldn't mind upgrades for.. perhaps with Adobe buying Macromedia we might be able to get a lot of more intiresting features coming through.
InDesign is probrobly one of the easiest animation editors, heck, it even lets you control how long each frame is on the screen. I am a huge fan of it and will support it to anyone who wants to buy a copy. Just make sure you do it legitimately! Nothing worse than thieves.
Cool...for those that want to know...do this to use Paint Shop Pro 7+ to create an animated gifs from individual pictures:
File | Jasc Products | Launch Animation Shop
Then choose File | Animation Wizard
[url="http://celestialguardians.guildportal.com"]Celestial Guardians SG[/url]: Chris Mas Snow 50 Ice/Storm Ctl, Li Zhou 42 MA/Rgn Scrp, Dui Zhou 32 Ice/FF Ctl, TinyTaxi 35 Emp/Psi Def
[url="http://tinyurl.com/y66drr"]UnAlliance VG[/url]: Shar Chi 37 Nin/Drk MM, La Vida Loca 16 Pl/Psi Dom
Ok well...I used Paint Shop Pro to create the animated gif but when I saved it, a wizard came up about optimization and now all the pics are grainy. 
Anyone have advice on how to stop it from "optimizing"?
[url="http://celestialguardians.guildportal.com"]Celestial Guardians SG[/url]: Chris Mas Snow 50 Ice/Storm Ctl, Li Zhou 42 MA/Rgn Scrp, Dui Zhou 32 Ice/FF Ctl, TinyTaxi 35 Emp/Psi Def
[url="http://tinyurl.com/y66drr"]UnAlliance VG[/url]: Shar Chi 37 Nin/Drk MM, La Vida Loca 16 Pl/Psi Dom
Just wanted to mention that I am sometimes on a modem along with some friends.
It's only because we play when we travel, and obviously our BB dunt come with us. It stinks, but we need our CoH fix.
And, any cutting down you do on your avatars is very much appreciated. I love to see them. But if modem guys are really gonna throw a hissy over it, they can always disable bringing them up in the forums.
Secondly I believe there are several GIF optomizers out there that do all that cutting-down-without-losing-quality for you at least on the GIF part if that's an issue for you. I think GIF Optimizer (gee what does this prog do? :P) does a good job, but I can't remember if it has a free trial or not. I'll look it up again and see what they offer.
Any other suggestions for optimizing your anime besides the GIF? Please post again, thx.
Great thread Spin and all.