My First Animated GIF, Photoshop CS3 Extended Options

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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

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I didn't make the heart, scooped it from a google pic search.
I have this animation set as the header on a myspace page so it's better to have it on "once" rather than "loop" I think.

If I put the last frame to 5secs it would just take 5secs longer to become a small amount blacker, do you mean extend the fade of "ROCK"?

Yea, I have a kind of biased against flash, I like to keep my work as accessible as possible. I think flash is a really great thing but I enjoy the challenge of recreating flash, java etc with css/html probably because myspace got me into coding.

EDIT: The last 2 frames are 85% then 100% opacity.