robby521

i have been useing this av for a long time and a friend had a very small animated one like it with blinking eyes.the first picture is what i would like to have done but dont know how.the second one is what it looks like but it is to small.
[img width=427 height=365]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/robby521/funny20face.jpg[/img]

[img width=70 height=59]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/robby521/4436.gif[/img]

TaoBoogie

So what you would like is the big image animated like the small one, with blinking eyes?
Is that it? I have only animated with Image Ready on a smaller scale, but it is very do-able.

robby521

yes thats what i would like.the forum i use says it cant be no more than 200pixels wide and 150 high.so it will have to be resized.if it will help any.

TaoBoogie

Resized is good, we like resized. What is the filesize limit (in kb) for the AV? This will be a big design factor limiting how many frames we can use balanced with colour quality and dimensions.
Have you used ImageReady before robby521?

robby521

here is what it says and no i have never used it or tryed anything like this.i am new.
its width can be no greater than 200 pixels, the height no greater than 150 pixels, and the file size no more than 12 KB.

TaoBoogie

Ah, well that means the dimensions will be tiny. heh In fact that is the size of the little animated one you posted too. So We could do the work but it will be almost exactly the same as your friends.
If you are ok with that we could continue, or perhaps you might want another picture to get the treatment to make it more personalized.
The Big baby photo has haad some good distort. probably with Liquify, before the animation process.
Well well, I just lashed the little animation fella into ImageReady and realized it only has two frames so this is quite straight forward.
If you have Photoshop, that contains ImageReady so if you open the file up in ImageReady you can see what I mean.
Let me know if you want to continue

robby521

yes would like to learn,yes i have that to.

TaoBoogie

Ok then robbie521, I'll try to get something done now, but, I'm in old England and 'tis the wee hours here. Let's see what we can do. I don't know your level in Photoshop so bare with me.
What I have done first is to open the small animated one up in ImageReady then if you go to the Toolbar in IR at the bottom you can see a picture of two pages. If you click on there it will tranfer the image to PhotoShop.
Now with PS open I open up the lage picture (File>Open>. then navigate to where the large image is.
When The large image is oped in PS Go to the layers pallett and duplicate the layer, so you have two layers of the same image.
Got that so far?
I'll go play and wait your reply.

robby521

got it

TaoBoogie

Here is a screenshot of how I have the file laid out My Photoshop mmmmm
I have the little animated one magnified to the left for reference. On the one we are working on can you see I have made a selection above the eyes on the top layer. You can do this by using the Pen Tool or one of the Lasso Tools in the Tools Pallett. Then copy Ctrl>C and paste Ctrl>V on a new layer. Do this to the other side above the eye too.
So now your Layers pallett should look like this
[img width=213 height=229]http://www.taohome.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/psg/pall.gif[/img]
I have labelled the two layers accordingly.
The main reason for copying those bits is to cover the eyes as it blinks with a similar skin texture.
Next I took each bit we just copied and played with them. First go to Ctrl>T to transform the overall shape I rotated it about 180 streched it till it roughly covered the eyes without distorting it too much. Then take off any excess bits with the eraser Tool, and finally select the Smudge tool In the Tool Pallett. In the Opions at the top of the work area I set the Mode to Normal and Strength to 26% and turned off Use all layers and Finget Painting. Now gently smude away at the sides a bit till you are happy.Do this to both sides.
Once you are happy, link the two eye layers with the top copy layer and merge Ctrl>E.
Now you should have two layers. the bottom one with the eyes open and the top one with the eyes shut.
Now turn off the visibility on the top layer by clicking the little eye icon the layers pallett next to the layer.
When I am playing about in photoshop I often like to make a backup just in case. Now as I said earlier in order to keep the filesize down we will need to shrink the image. We may as well use the same dimensions as the first one which was 70 px wide. So before we go into IR got to Image>Image Size and select the size you want here I used 70px wide.

Go to the tools pallett in PS and click the very bottom again to transfer the image to IR.
Nearly there, I'll go test it.