My First Animated GIF, Photoshop CS3 Extended Options

[xTHExDUDEx]

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I made it for a friend that is promoting his own rock music nights.
It's on his myspace page just now.

So yea, Imageready was assimilated into Photoshop CS3, it now has a nifty frame tool for creating animated GIFs.
It was fairly easy to pick up and start making frames straight away.

This is my first ever animated GIF, pretty simple I guess; I created around 50 layers in PS, each layer representing another frame, as each layer keeps all the data from the last I simply duplicated the last layer all the way to 50(ish).

To achieve the fade up affect I simply started opacity at 3% then 5%, 7% etc for a slow fade up then I raised the opacity intervals higher every few layers.

This is probably dot-to-dot to a lot of you's but I'm chuffed I can make GIFs now :D

[SarahxJoy]

It's nice and simple, and the message being sent is clear. The only thing that kind of bugs me is the length of the "I" above the heart. It almost looks..too short to me, like it should be longer to be seen better as an "I". Or something. But it's nice. :)