Working on a siggy tag for myself

Now this one is still a bit jumpy cause I don't have the timing just right but it's better than the first try



The tutorial wasn't hard at all. Liz

Nice glow, but it's a tad on the tall side, I'd make it wider and shorter if it were me. I prefer to take up less real estate in my postings and wider and shorter sigs look cleaner to me.

This particular one would only be in one place, not as a signature tag to all my posts in lots of forums. This one would reside on my home page only. I would make modified versions to go in forum signature blocks.

The original tutorial had it 400x 350 and this one is 400 x 250. I KNEW the original was too big. Liz

Hehehe, o-tay, well, since I'm not equipped properly to see it on your forum, I'll have to take your word for it. What technique did you use to generate the backlight animation? Did you do it manually?

Actually, where I have it, you CAN see it http://family.southerngazebo.com/liz2.html I'm not even using it on my forum. As to how I did it, here is the tutorial: http://www.designsbyjoy.net/Designer...ation/Rays.htm

I plan on putting it on a graphics site some day. Liz

I re-did her, got rid of the blank one in there so there isn't a jump. And used a smaller one to start with. Liz

Oh, I see, you're using Animation Shop, I misunderstood then. I see now how you used it and it makes perfect sense there. I used to have a program that applied that effect automatically, I'm not sure if it was part of Cool3D or something else but I don't know where the program is anymore. It was espescially nice for using in things you wanted to look like movie logos. I've always liked that animated backlight effect.

I have never used the program that you are describing, I have only animated stuff like this in ImageReady. You probably want to make it look like the spotlight is continuous. As it is right now I can tell exactly when the repeat starts. You might want to fix that.

Considering 1) I don't have ImageReady 2) this was my first attempt at backlighting 3) in the current file there is no blank one so if it is jumpy, it's the settings and I haven't YET figured those out, see reason #2. And 4) I thought I did pretty good for someone who had NEVER done this before and is not 20 years old.

Here is another version, I THINK I have a better handle on the settings now. It's still a tad JUMPY but since I don't have Image Ready, I guess I'll have to work with what I do have. Liz

I thought you had photoshop, Liz? If you've got that, then you have imageready - they're bundled together