I made a new banner. That's it upstairs, there ^. I actually made it for BlogExplosion.com but decided to use it on this page as well.
That's me there on the right, and on the left is SpaceKitten(TM), the logo for my [sometime] clothing label GalleryHag.
I made the banner in Adobe Premier, printed it to an AVI and then used the shareware tool Amazing Photo Editor to convert it to an animated GIF. Actually I'm not entirely happy with the render I achieved - principally the dither-ey effect on the text as it fades in - so if you happen to know of a free tool (or even a non-free tool) which I could get a better result with, I'd be grateful to hear about it.
EDIT: I redid the banner using a 24-frame sequence, created in Adobe Photoshop and animated in Adobe ImageReady. I like it a lot better now. It really was still far too much work though, for what it is.
2 comments:
Stephen,
You might try giving GIMP a try. I have found it pretty nice for graphical design. And, they have a Windows version now. So, you do not have to be a Linux guru to be able to use it any more. Check it out at www.gimp.org. Fair warning, most of the tutorials for it are for the linux version, so are a little hard to follow. But, if you are patient and don't mind poking around a bit, you should be able to figure most anything out that you need to do.
--Sean
http://smckinnon.blogspot.com
Thanks, Sean, I will check it out and report back if I have any stunning successes or failures!
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