Newbie Sharing and feedback

so, i use GIMP, and in recent daring attemps iv tried to make some sigs, and avis and the sort, but, i lack resources, the rescorces section helped a bit, but im looking for...word definitions, like, whats a PSD? how do you make a render? things like that

wheres a good pack i can download alot of things i can use to get started.

what are good tools to use in gimp? and how should i use them?

i have no education in these things but im quite interested in learning at my own pace, i used to use gimp just for resizing gifs, now im using layers and i figured out how to add an alpha channel, and stuff like that

this is my only serious creation so far, but was i was doing it i became more and more interested, i also made someone on here's Sig, but i cant remember their name


i really appreciate any help you can give me, try not to use big words

here is a thread i made for gimp users.

http://justdubsrefuge.omgforum.net/t304-making-a-signature-with-gimp

I've uploaded some tutorials for you:

How to make simple gifs (from images):

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How to render:

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gifs are awesome!

good luck making them.

Nonononoki wrote:I've uploaded some tutorials for you:

How to make simple gifs (from images):

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Hot to render:

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ill check these out when i get back from dinner

also, is there an easy way to make a gif from a video? most places i saw said just use the internet based websites, but they always leave watermarks

http://www141.lunapic.com/editor/?

Online gif maker that doesn't leave a watermark

i was thinking of taking a clip, although that is cool, and i might use that

this is one i made with another site, although when it originally came out, it was reiculusly slow, even on max speed (100ms/frame) i had to delete 1/3 of the frames to get it to this speed, granted, it still flows, but it has an ugly watermark(just one does?), i also didnt get to choose the size of the image, and scaling it makes it look wierd. granted, doing it this way, was very frustrating as the time frame it game me was like....3secs? i dont remember. that and again, all the after-editing.

no, i dont remeber the site i used it was gif ninja, but here is the original output of one of them
http://gifninja.com/search?q=worlds+end+dance+hall

original video

Spoiler:

You can make gifs in PS (photoshop) and PSD is the file that PS saves its files as. It retains all layers and details.

If you want to rip a time slot from a video and make a gif out of it, I found this handy program. (no watermark)

http://www.video-gif-converter.com/

Btw IK you use gimp but you can always use PS too ;D if Gimp uses the same principle with layers you can still just upload a gif and edit it.

Blazer wrote:You can make gifs in PS (photoshop) and PSD is the file that PS saves its files as. It retains all layers and details.

If you want to rip a time slot from a video and make a gif out of it, I found this handy program. (no watermark)

http://www.video-gif-converter.com/

Btw IK you use gimp but you can always use PS too ;D if Gimp uses the same principle with layers you can still just upload a gif and edit it.

that program looks very useful, i really like gimp as im getting used to everything, should i really switch to a version of PS?

DemonEyesJoe wrote:

Blazer wrote:You can make gifs in PS (photoshop) and PSD is the file that PS saves its files as. It retains all layers and details.

If you want to rip a time slot from a video and make a gif out of it, I found this handy program. (no watermark)

http://www.video-gif-converter.com/

Btw IK you use gimp but you can always use PS too ;D if Gimp uses the same principle with layers you can still just upload a gif and edit it.

that program looks very useful, i really like gimp as im getting used to everything, should i really switch to a version of PS?

Photoshop's very handy and has more features then GIMP does but you don't necessarily have to make the change. GIMP is a great beginners program and it's free for users who take interest into graphic designs.

I personally haven't used GIMP, but I am completely satisfied with PS and I don't even know how to use all of the features yet. It takes some time to learn what everything does and all (or maybe just me since I don't read tutorials). I think the majority of us here use PS if you want to use a similar program, but I'm not sure. I also know that Crazy tried GIMP but went back to PS. I'm not sure what he's up to now but that's the latest I heard.

Idk, its up to you haha.

@Imagination: Love the avatar.

ok, so, ill get PS...anyone PM me a link to a good place to get it thats you know....very Justdubs style, if ya know what i mean

DemonEyesJoe wrote:ok, so, ill get PS...anyone PM me a link to a good place to get it thats you know....very Justdubs style, if ya know what i mean

Why not try using Photoshop CS2 first? Since it's 100% free and all... For me, I'm trying to use it... It's more different than Gimp as I expected...

Nonononoki wrote:

DemonEyesJoe wrote:ok, so, ill get PS...anyone PM me a link to a good place to get it thats you know....very Justdubs style, if ya know what i mean

Why not try using Photoshop CS2 first? Since it's 100% free and all... For me, I'm trying to use it... It's more different than Gimp as I expected...

i think ill stick with gimp as im still learning, and im pretty familiar with alot of different things i can do with it

what are those things you use on images light the lightning, or like, sparkles, or whatever, whats the general term i could google for some of those?

what version photoshop do you all recomend? that i can find the most tuts and such, i just saw crazys tut on his shop page, its really good, and since its not sped up, its even better (thanks potato)

some say PS CS6 is alot different, but is it so new i cant find help using it? should i PS CS5?

alright so, this is somethng i just made as part of the anipril avi themes/misaka army/ eveloution army, this is my first time using layer masks



feedback? be harsh if u must i learn more from negative crits than good

I think it's well done, but Misaka seems so "copied-in" ;D

Nonononoki wrote:I think it's well done, but Misaka seems so "copied-in" ;D

i agree, i cropped the Eveloution from an already made picture so theres some layer masking thats not on misaka, not much i can do there as i dont know

i just made this as well to be a copy-cat

I think it looks pretty good, better then when I first started photoshop.

so i expanded from what i learned in the previous avatar i made, and made a better one

yea a problem i have with GIMP is its text system, theres no dropdown menu and i dont know what EVERY font looks like, or if the one used is even a default font so i kind of badly winged it, i saved the edit, so i can edit it at anytime casue, like you said, i liked it, but it felt...off, ill try PS as well.

i hope to be able to make something good one day, self taught. something i hope works for me as it does everything else is i can pick up almost anything quite quickly, but i dont think ill ever become as amazing at anything as others

I think looks pretty good for a first time. Text placement and font style is probably the hardest thing to grasp on. From my past experience with photoshop, a majority of the appearance of text is manipulation and placement of the text. Font styles are nice too but the most basic fonts like Arial, Century, etc. can look just as good even though it's plain.

this is my almost-done image, making it a .gif DESTROYED the quality, so i might just use it in the other way i was thinking