New Siggy's. ;D

[Kella]

Okay, so I just did a whole lot of messing around, and I now have a new siggy! v

Yay GIMP. :P I'ma gonna go ahead and post the individual pics, so you all can take a gander, if you'd like. I think Rembrant's is my favorite, followed by November's. I really don't like Sellah's, but I couldn't come up with anything better... I'll be back to that one. Hm, anyway, constructive criticism is welcome, as always. ;D As is your expression that you despise the fact my siggy's pic changes every 5 seconds. That's welcome too. :P

To get the animation, I had to convert into a .gif format, which doesn't have as many colors as .jpg or .png. Which is a bummer. :P But I think it turned out alright, at least.

Notes: The only bits I imported are the pictures. In several cases, especially Rembrant and Grizzelda, I edited said pictures a LOT. X)

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0o That's what I need. 8 awesome signatures in a rotating gif 0o

[Mara]

*nods*

[Kella]

That's exactly what I was thinking two months ago. ;D Finally got around to it... And when I figured that GIMP can animate .gif, well, I was all set.

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GIMP can animate .gif? 0o

[Kella]

Turns out it can! xD I was just saving in a .gif so I could edit the frames online, when the export settings came up, and lo-and-behold, it had the option to handle the layers as frames of animation, instead of squashing them all together.

All you've got to do is open a new Image, with each of the different banners as a different layer. You arrange them top-to-bottom in the order you want, then save-as a .gif format. It gives you the option to flatten the image, or save as an animation. Hit save as animation, and you enter in the delay between frames. Then viola! ;D

The user-interface of GIMP is awful. X) It's so hard to figure out how to do much of anything... :P

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And yet it's such a beautiful program.

[Kella]

Agreed. Oh how pros and cons never cease their battle...

[Mr.Bøbert]

Nice job on the siggy(s)! Me likes! I knew GIMP could make animated GIF's, but I never got around to actually figuring out how to do it... Perhaps I'll do it.... eventually.... meh, but for now, I like mine. (no, I did not necessarily make the changing userbar one... I used this fancy-shmancy website for that)

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BEHOLD!
My epic failure.
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[Mara]

Whoa, you need to slow down your time... it scrolls through pretty fast.

Otherwise, I like it.

[Jenno]

Hmmm, I had been seeking a solution to my problem of only really having room for one sig at a time. I should look into this GIMP thing more. Will my images be the same quality once I put them through it?

[Kella]

@ Valadin: Nice! ;D Ha, I like it. ((Psst! Don't forget to delete the blank 'background' layer. xD))

Jenno: No... and yes. It really depends on the image. The problem with .gif is that it can only support so many colors. Fine gradients, like faces, tend to become banded, as you can see. However, things like text, and my fractals, don't have as much of a problem, because they don't use as wide a range of colors anyway.

Now, the way you impose the diagonal pixel-pattern across your pictures might make the banding a lot less noticeable. So I guess you won't know unless you try. ;D

If you're curious about GIMP, you can check it out at www.gimp.org. It's free, and doesn't take up too much space. :P Takes a while to get used to, but it's a really great program. Especially because it's free. ;D

And if you don't want to download GIMP, but you wanna see what the .gif would look like, just let me know. It would literally take me less than fifteen minutes to get it all together. ;D

[Mr.Bøbert]

BEHOLD THE AWESOMENESS!!!
lawl, GIMP proved, as usual, to be too big of a pain to work with. So, I went with some ancient Microsoft Gif animator thingamajig. And it worked perfectly. No need for that fancy new-fangled GIMP, no sirree...
(I couldn't think of a good quote for Zeth, so since he is my comic relief character, I just put somethin' funny in there.... )

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The white part is there for a reason ^^

It's for when I get my senator approved.
Well, at least the slot permission... *coughs*

[Kella]

@ Bobert: Ooooooh! I laek your new banners! And you kept the old one too! yay. ^^

@ Valadin: aaaaah, I seees. ;D *whispers* give them cookies!