Help with making an avatar with a Mac!! Hi everyone, I still haven't been able to make an animated avatar on my Mac. I used Photoshop CS3 and the animation was working, then I saved it as a Compuserve GIF and when I try to load it on here it wasn't animated!! What am I doing wrong?? Should I be saving it under a different format?? Any help will be appreciated, Thanks!! |
I think I have CS3 on my mac home. I'll check when I get there. My Photoshop software came with a separate application called Imageready. That's what I work in to make an animated gif avatar. The biggest trick in imageready is that when you're done, you go under the optimize palette and "save optimized as." If any of this rings a bell, let me know and I'll double check how I do it later tonight. Sorry I couldn't help more immediately. |
Thanks for replying Mike. I will check if I have imageready or not! I get so frustrated when it won't work!! |
Yeah, let me know. I have CS, which I guess is an older version but I should be able to walk you through it if you have image ready. Just do a hard drive search for imageready, one word. I didn't know anything about it until someone told me I had it. |
Imageready is not built in to the CS3 but I am going to look and see if it is a separate program to download. I actually made the animated avatar on CS3 but I didn't know what to save it as!! I saved it as Compuserve GIF but when I went to reopen it , it wasn't animated!! I might have to look up a tutorial on it!! |
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This one is by someone who seems to have your same question. She (he?) made a video asking for help, and several people replied. Here are a couple responses: First response: Ok, you have the animation done. Go to File, then press Save For Web And Devices. Then when that window comes up, in the upper right select GIF. Make sure you have Animations checked, and press save. Now open up the GIF in internet explorer or firefox, and you will see the animation. Another response: First you save a GIF file on your desktop, it doesn't matter what it is, as long as it's a GIF file. Then You open up your photoshop and save the file as the GIF file you saved earlier on your desktop [yes, you're going to replace it] Edit: And after seeing the vids, you definitely won't need to download imageready. CS3 can absolutely handle it. |
WOW ... that's great Info .... :thumbup: |
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i made an avi on my mac (cs3) you have to click on save for web, and save it that way as a gif. make sure you resize BEFORE you save... :p and then you shouldn't have any issues uploading |
Thanks everyone, I am going to try that!! I love the U-tube videos, thanks for checking that out for me Mike!! I really appreciate it!! I would have never thought to look for a tutorial on there! I have to remember that for the future!! |
Well, I tried it and went to Save for web and saved it as a gif and it was animated but when i upload it on to YT, it is still not animated!! When it asks if you want images only or HTML am I supposed to pick HTML??? I don't know what I am doing wrong still!! Ughhhh...frustrating!! |
I tried to save it as images and Html but it wouldn't upload either!! I don't know what I am doing wrong!! |
Ugh, you must be pulling your hair out. Hang in there! Sounds like you're real close. Could it be a size issue? As a donating member, you can have a 125 x 125 pixel avatar. But it's also got to be smaller than 53.7 kilobytes. I find when I get about 4 pictures on there, I'm pushing that kilobyte limit. |
Woohoo! It's animating. And wow, that was worth the wait. Nice job. :) |
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