Fading between ‘Then and Now’ pictures

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:07:48 -0700, Gary Edstrom
wrote:

I have several sets of ‘Then and Now’ pictures around Southern California. I have loaded a pair of them into different layers in Photoshop and have registered them almost exactly. It’s interesting to fade back and forth by adjusting the opacity of the upper layer.
Is there any sort of utility in the Adobe arsenal that would allow me to post the pair of pictures on the web and have them fade back-and-forth for viewers?

Here is my first pair of pictures simply stacked one-above-the-other. This is the north-bound Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles at the Vermont Avenue over crossing. The two pictures were taken in 1956 by my father and in 2006 by me:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg

A simple animation done in Photoshop and ImageReady would fade one view into another. Here’s a basic tutorial:
http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/animation/animation.htm

Search on "Animation Photoshop ImageReady" for several more.

—
Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:45:20 -0400, tony cooper
wrote:

A simple animation done in Photoshop and ImageReady would fade one view into another. Here’s a basic tutorial:
http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/animation/animation.htm

Search on "Animation Photoshop ImageReady" for several more.

Thank You!
Gary

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:21:09 -0700, Gary Edstrom
wrote:

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:45:20 -0400, tony cooper
wrote:

A simple animation done in Photoshop and ImageReady would fade one view into another. Here’s a basic tutorial:
http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/animation/animation.htm

Search on "Animation Photoshop ImageReady" for several more.

I was in a hurry earlier and didn’t have time to add this. The tutorial moves the tongue and closes the eye. This involves several layers to make the tongue move from one spot to another. Each frame is a distinct change in position of the tongue.

When working with only two images, you want several layers of the first image in decreasing percentage of opacity followed by several layers of the second image in increasing percentage of opacity. This fades the first image and gradually brings the second image into view. Done in small time increments, the effect is one image transforming. You can loop the animation to keep running.

I can’t find it now, but I did an animation with the first photo a Civil War cemetery and the second photo a soldier. The result was the soldier appearing as a shadowy ghost, finally appearing in full, and then disappearing as a ghost again.

—
Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

Open the animation window.
Create a GIF file that transitions.

Gary Edstrom wrote:

I have several sets of ‘Then and Now’ pictures around Southern California. I have loaded a pair of them into different layers in Photoshop and have registered them almost exactly. It’s interesting to fade back and forth by adjusting the opacity of the upper layer.
Is there any sort of utility in the Adobe arsenal that would allow me to post the pair of pictures on the web and have them fade back-and-forth for viewers?

Here is my first pair of pictures simply stacked one-above-the-other. This is the north-bound Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles at the Vermont Avenue over crossing. The two pictures were taken in 1956 by my father and in 2006 by me:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

Photoshop won’t be a good choice for this type of fun, I would suggest to get a hole of a MORPH program which would allow to save as any video format (like AVI or MPG etc.) or Animated GIF.

Just GOOGLE for MORPHing and you should have the answer.

"Joel" wrote in message

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

Photoshop won’t be a good choice for this type of fun, I would suggest to get a hole of a MORPH program which would allow to save as any video format
(like AVI or MPG etc.) or Animated GIF.

Photoshop creates animated GIF files.

http://course1.winona.edu/jstafford/a.gif

CS to animated GIF

Flash would provide better color.

"John J" wrote:

"Joel" wrote in message

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

Photoshop won’t be a good choice for this type of fun, I would suggest to get a hole of a MORPH program which would allow to save as any video format
(like AVI or MPG etc.) or Animated GIF.

Photoshop creates animated GIF files.

Photoshop itself won’t create animated GIF but other program comes with Photoshop may (I never used to remember the name). And even that, it’s no way near the MORPHing program which not only auromatically but much smoother.

And animated GIF, if someone really serious about animated GIF then keeping the size as smallest as possible will require a higher level of making animated GIF.

I haven’t done any animated GIF for many years, but I used to create lot of animated GIF for web pages and political. And Ulead GIF Animator was my favorite one. Of couse I used Photoshop for the frames.

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:41:20 -0500, Joel wrote:

"John J" wrote:

"Joel" wrote in message

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

Photoshop won’t be a good choice for this type of fun, I would suggest to get a hole of a MORPH program which would allow to save as any video format
(like AVI or MPG etc.) or Animated GIF.

Photoshop creates animated GIF files.

Photoshop itself won’t create animated GIF but other program comes with Photoshop may (I never used to remember the name). And even that, it’s no way near the MORPHing program which not only auromatically but much smoother.

You create the frames by creating layers in Photoshop. You animate the .gif in ImageReady which is part of the Photoshop program.

There are several free morphing, or animated .gif, programs available if you search on Google. I like staying in Photoshop, though.

—
Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

tony cooper wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:41:20 -0500, Joel wrote:

"John J" wrote:

"Joel" wrote in message

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

Photoshop won’t be a good choice for this type of fun, I would suggest to get a hole of a MORPH program which would allow to save as any video format
(like AVI or MPG etc.) or Animated GIF.

Photoshop creates animated GIF files.

Photoshop itself won’t create animated GIF but other program comes with Photoshop may (I never used to remember the name). And even that, it’s no way near the MORPHing program which not only auromatically but much smoother.

You create the frames by creating layers in Photoshop. You animate the .gif in ImageReady which is part of the Photoshop program.
There are several free morphing, or animated .gif, programs available if you search on Google. I like staying in Photoshop, though.

I was master of Animated GIF so I do know how it takes to create a good animated GIF, and my animated GIF was much more than just blinking, but was pretty much like a short video clip. And keeping the size small for even DUN user to enjoy requires more than just adding frames.

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:59:09 -0500, Joel wrote:

tony cooper wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:41:20 -0500, Joel wrote:

"John J" wrote:

"Joel" wrote in message

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

Photoshop won’t be a good choice for this type of fun, I would suggest to get a hole of a MORPH program which would allow to save as any video format
(like AVI or MPG etc.) or Animated GIF.

Photoshop creates animated GIF files.

Photoshop itself won’t create animated GIF but other program comes with Photoshop may (I never used to remember the name). And even that, it’s no way near the MORPHing program which not only auromatically but much smoother.

You create the frames by creating layers in Photoshop. You animate the .gif in ImageReady which is part of the Photoshop program.
There are several free morphing, or animated .gif, programs available if you search on Google. I like staying in Photoshop, though.

I was master of Animated GIF so I do know how it takes to create a good animated GIF, and my animated GIF was much more than just blinking, but was pretty much like a short video clip. And keeping the size small for even DUN user to enjoy requires more than just adding frames.

You add frames to make the motion smooth. In the one I did, it was to have a figure (a civil war soldier in a graveyard) appear gradually and then disappear gradually. The more frames, the smoother the transition. The duration of the appearance of each frame is set in ImageReady, and that duration can be quite brief.

—
Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

Joel wrote:

"John J" wrote:

"Joel" wrote in message

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

Photoshop won’t be a good choice for this type of fun, I would suggest to get a hole of a MORPH program which would allow to save as any video format
(like AVI or MPG etc.) or Animated GIF.

Photoshop creates animated GIF files.

Photoshop itself won’t create animated GIF

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Killfile.

tony cooper wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:41:20 -0500, Joel wrote:

"John J" wrote:

"Joel" wrote in message

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

Photoshop won’t be a good choice for this type of fun, I would suggest to get a hole of a MORPH program which would allow to save as any video format
(like AVI or MPG etc.) or Animated GIF.

Photoshop creates animated GIF files.

Photoshop itself won’t create animated GIF but other program comes with Photoshop may (I never used to remember the name). And even that, it’s no way near the MORPHing program which not only auromatically but much smoother.

You create the frames by creating layers in Photoshop. You animate the .gif in ImageReady which is part of the Photoshop program.

With later versions of CS there is no Imageready, but CS still does GIF animations – and MORE! See Export.

Where are you guys? In La La land?

Joel wrote:

tony cooper wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:41:20 -0500, Joel wrote:

"John J" wrote:

"Joel" wrote in message

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

Photoshop won’t be a good choice for this type of fun, I would suggest to get a hole of a MORPH program which would allow to save as any video format
(like AVI or MPG etc.) or Animated GIF.

Photoshop creates animated GIF files.

Photoshop itself won’t create animated GIF but other program comes with Photoshop may (I never used to remember the name). And even that, it’s no way near the MORPHing program which not only auromatically but much smoother.

You create the frames by creating layers in Photoshop. You animate the .gif in ImageReady which is part of the Photoshop program.
There are several free morphing, or animated .gif, programs available if you search on Google. I like staying in Photoshop, though.

I was master of Animated GIF

WAS is the keyword here. You don’t know what the f*k you are talking about today.

tony cooper wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:59:09 -0500, Joel wrote:

tony cooper wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:41:20 -0500, Joel wrote:

"John J" wrote:

"Joel" wrote in message

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

Photoshop won’t be a good choice for this type of fun, I would suggest to get a hole of a MORPH program which would allow to save as any video format
(like AVI or MPG etc.) or Animated GIF.

Photoshop creates animated GIF files.

Photoshop itself won’t create animated GIF but other program comes with Photoshop may (I never used to remember the name). And even that, it’s no way near the MORPHing program which not only auromatically but much smoother.

You create the frames by creating layers in Photoshop. You animate the .gif in ImageReady which is part of the Photoshop program.
There are several free morphing, or animated .gif, programs available if you search on Google. I like staying in Photoshop, though.

I was master of Animated GIF so I do know how it takes to create a good animated GIF, and my animated GIF was much more than just blinking, but was pretty much like a short video clip. And keeping the size small for even DUN user to enjoy requires more than just adding frames.

You add frames to make the motion smooth. In the one I did, it was to have a figure (a civil war soldier in a graveyard) appear gradually and then disappear gradually. The more frames, the smoother the transition. The duration of the appearance of each frame is set in ImageReady, and that duration can be quite brief.

Yes, the more frame the smoother the animation, and the more frame the larger the size *unless* you use a special trick. Now comparing to MORPHing which is much easier, smoother, simpler than any other method, cuz the program will do everything for you automatically, you have the option to set the number of frame, then you can later modifiy or remove the ones in between to reduce the size. Of course using the original frame generated by MORPH program may end up with pretty large size, unless you use Photoshop to modify the frame’s.

IOW, using Photoshop and GIF Animator program may take hour(s) (depending on how complex the animation is) when with MORPH program it may require few short minutes.

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:55:59 -0500, John J wrote:

tony cooper wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:41:20 -0500, Joel wrote:

"John J" wrote:

"Joel" wrote in message

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

Photoshop won’t be a good choice for this type of fun, I would suggest to get a hole of a MORPH program which would allow to save as any video format
(like AVI or MPG etc.) or Animated GIF.

Photoshop creates animated GIF files.

Photoshop itself won’t create animated GIF but other program comes with Photoshop may (I never used to remember the name). And even that, it’s no way near the MORPHing program which not only auromatically but much smoother.

You create the frames by creating layers in Photoshop. You animate the .gif in ImageReady which is part of the Photoshop program.

With later versions of CS there is no Imageready, but CS still does GIF animations – and MORE! See Export.

Where are you guys? In La La land?

No, I’m using Photoshop 7.0. I click to switch over to ImageReady. —
Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:54:53 -0500, John J wrote:

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Killfile.

Why must simple questions ALWAYS degerate into mud slinging???

Gary

Gary Edstrom wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:54:53 -0500, John J wrote:

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Killfile.

Why must simple questions ALWAYS degerate into mud slinging???

I have to wonder how a person who can afford CS is also too dim to learn what it does right out of the box.

John J wrote:

Gary Edstrom wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:54:53 -0500, John J wrote:

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Killfile.

Why must simple questions ALWAYS degerate into mud slinging???

I have to wonder how a person who can afford CS is also too dim to learn what it does right out of the box.

I’d bet the vast majority of owners of CS don’t know *everything* it’ll do. It’d take a lifetime to use every feature.

—
dvus

"John J" wrote in message

Gary Edstrom wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:54:53 -0500, John J wrote:

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Killfile.

Why must simple questions ALWAYS degerate into mud slinging???

I have to wonder how a person who can afford CS is also too dim to learn what it does right out of the box.

None too bright yourself to assume everyone has the same version of PS. NG is called alt.graphics.photoshop, therefore many users from different platforms and versions lurk here. If you were to attempting to help, prefacing your instructions with the version it works on would help. From your posts however it is apparent you post only to be heard. I imagine you inhabit quite a few killfiles.

lurker w/PSv6

"dvus" wrote in message

John J wrote:

Gary Edstrom wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:54:53 -0500, John J wrote:

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Killfile.

Why must simple questions ALWAYS degerate into mud slinging???

I have to wonder how a person who can afford CS is also too dim to learn what it does right out of the box.

I’d bet the vast majority of owners of CS don’t know *everything* it’ll do. It’d take a lifetime to use every feature.

True, but I am irked when someone claims "CS can’t do it" and then goes on to recommend some half-baked product instead.

"Anon" wrote in message

"John J" wrote in message

to wonder how a person who can afford CS is also too dim to learn

what it does right out of the box.

None too bright yourself to assume everyone has the same version of PS. NG is called alt.graphics.photoshop, therefore many users from different platforms and versions lurk here. If you were to attempting to help, prefacing your instructions with the version it works on would help. From your posts however it is apparent you post only to be heard. I imagine you inhabit quite a few killfiles.

First, I gave the answer to the OP’s quesstion. Did you?

Second, Photoshop and CS have had the ability to do animated GIF files for many versions, although in Photoshop it was with ImageReady (which came with Photoshop). So learn up.

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:14:49 -0500, John J wrote:

First, I gave the answer to the OP’s quesstion. Did you?

Having a little knowledge is not a license to insult anyone, or drag down the discussion in any way.
—
Mike Russell – http://www.curvemeister.com

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:13:11 -0500, "John J"
wrote:

"dvus" wrote in message

John J wrote:

Gary Edstrom wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:54:53 -0500, John J wrote:

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Killfile.

Why must simple questions ALWAYS degerate into mud slinging???

I have to wonder how a person who can afford CS is also too dim to learn what it does right out of the box.

I’d bet the vast majority of owners of CS don’t know *everything* it’ll do. It’d take a lifetime to use every feature.

True, but I am irked when someone claims "CS can’t do it" and then goes on to recommend some half-baked product instead.

There’s a difference between "CS" and "PS". I have "PS" (v 7.0) and there are things that can be done in CS that I can’t do. Nothing that I want to do, though.
—
Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

"Mike Russell" wrote in message

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:14:49 -0500, John J wrote:

First, I gave the answer to the OP’s quesstion. Did you?

Having a little knowledge is not a license to insult anyone, or drag down the discussion in any way.

OK, well taken. People who consistently say, "It can’t be done" (when it CAN be done) drag down the level of the group as well. I’ll be kinder in the future.

"tony cooper" wrote in message

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:13:11 -0500, "John J"
wrote:

"dvus" wrote in message

John J wrote:

Gary Edstrom wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:54:53 -0500, John J wrote:

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Killfile.

Why must simple questions ALWAYS degerate into mud slinging???

I have to wonder how a person who can afford CS is also too dim to learn
what it does right out of the box.

I’d bet the vast majority of owners of CS don’t know *everything* it’ll do. It’d take a lifetime to use every feature.

True, but I am irked when someone claims "CS can’t do it" and then goes on to recommend some half-baked product instead.

There’s a difference between "CS" and "PS". I have "PS" (v 7.0) and there are things that can be done in CS that I can’t do. Nothing that I want to do, though.

True, but the subject was animated GIF files which are done with IR which comes with Photoshop.

Ya know – I have an unopened, still in the shrink wrap Version 3 here, and version 7 that I can’t give away due to the original EULA. I gotta find that old Mac for V3. 🙂

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:04:33 -0500, "John J"
wrote:

"tony cooper" wrote in message

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:13:11 -0500, "John J"
wrote:

"dvus" wrote in message

John J wrote:

Gary Edstrom wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:54:53 -0500, John J wrote:

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Killfile.

Why must simple questions ALWAYS degerate into mud slinging???

I have to wonder how a person who can afford CS is also too dim to learn
what it does right out of the box.

I’d bet the vast majority of owners of CS don’t know *everything* it’ll do. It’d take a lifetime to use every feature.

True, but I am irked when someone claims "CS can’t do it" and then goes on to recommend some half-baked product instead.

There’s a difference between "CS" and "PS". I have "PS" (v 7.0) and there are things that can be done in CS that I can’t do. Nothing that I want to do, though.

True, but the subject was animated GIF files which are done with IR which comes with Photoshop.

I explained that to the OP with suggestions and a link. I’ve made animated .gifs with PS and IR.

—
Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:32:36 -0700, Mike Russell
scribbled:

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:14:49 -0500, John J wrote:

First, I gave the answer to the OP’s quesstion. Did you?

Having a little knowledge is not a license to insult anyone, or drag down the discussion in any way.

As if a license is needed…

Urge, desire, whatever. It’s a free method of communication.

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:13:11 -0500, "John J"
scribbled:

"dvus" wrote in message

John J wrote:

Gary Edstrom wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:54:53 -0500, John J wrote:

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Killfile.

Why must simple questions ALWAYS degerate into mud slinging???

I have to wonder how a person who can afford CS is also too dim to learn what it does right out of the box.

I’d bet the vast majority of owners of CS don’t know *everything* it’ll do. It’d take a lifetime to use every feature.

True, but I am irked when someone claims "CS can’t do it" and then goes on to recommend some half-baked product instead.

Do you really think anyone gives a fuck about what irks you?

John J wrote:

Joel wrote:

tony cooper wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:41:20 -0500, Joel wrote:

"John J" wrote:

"Joel" wrote in message

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

Photoshop won’t be a good choice for this type of fun, I would suggest to get a hole of a MORPH program which would allow to save as any video format
(like AVI or MPG etc.) or Animated GIF.

Photoshop creates animated GIF files.

Photoshop itself won’t create animated GIF but other program comes with Photoshop may (I never used to remember the name). And even that, it’s no way near the MORPHing program which not only auromatically but much smoother.

You create the frames by creating layers in Photoshop. You animate the .gif in ImageReady which is part of the Photoshop program.
There are several free morphing, or animated .gif, programs available if you search on Google. I like staying in Photoshop, though.

I was master of Animated GIF

WAS is the keyword here. You don’t know what the f*k you are talking about today.

I am saying if you open you f**ken mouth then I will stick my stick into it.

John J wrote:

Joel wrote:

"John J" wrote:

"Joel" wrote in message

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

Photoshop won’t be a good choice for this type of fun, I would suggest to get a hole of a MORPH program which would allow to save as any video format
(like AVI or MPG etc.) or Animated GIF.

Photoshop creates animated GIF files.

Photoshop itself won’t create animated GIF

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Because you are too stupid to realize that you pay Photoshop to do the Photoshop thing not animeted GIF which Photoshop isn’t the best tool.

Killfile.

You have better because I won’t be easy on stupid.

John J wrote:

Gary Edstrom wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:54:53 -0500, John J wrote:

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Killfile.

Why must simple questions ALWAYS degerate into mud slinging???

I have to wonder how a person who can afford CS is also too dim to learn what it does right out of the box.

Because you are too stupid to realize that Photoshop isn’t designed to do animated GIF, and even if it’s capable too it’s still not the best tool. Have you wonder why you have the brain but too stupid to use it?

"John J" wrote:

"dvus" wrote in message

John J wrote:

Gary Edstrom wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:54:53 -0500, John J wrote:

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Killfile.

Why must simple questions ALWAYS degerate into mud slinging???

I have to wonder how a person who can afford CS is also too dim to learn what it does right out of the box.

I’d bet the vast majority of owners of CS don’t know *everything* it’ll do. It’d take a lifetime to use every feature.

True, but I am irked when someone claims "CS can’t do it" and then goes on to recommend some half-baked product instead.

You are too stupid because it’s true that Photoshop can’t do animated GIF.

"John J" wrote:

"Anon" wrote in message

"John J" wrote in message

to wonder how a person who can afford CS is also too dim to learn

what it does right out of the box.

None too bright yourself to assume everyone has the same version of PS. NG is called alt.graphics.photoshop, therefore many users from different platforms and versions lurk here. If you were to attempting to help, prefacing your instructions with the version it works on would help. From your posts however it is apparent you post only to be heard. I imagine you inhabit quite a few killfiles.

First, I gave the answer to the OP’s quesstion. Did you?
Second, Photoshop and CS have had the ability to do animated GIF files for many versions, although in Photoshop it was with ImageReady (which came with Photoshop). So learn up.

You are just too stupid for me to boost you brain, and since you already have me kill-filed (it’s good for you), so I can give more hint to other.

– Photoshop itself can be a tool to create FRAME but Photoshop itself can’t create animated GIF

– The IR came with some version of Photoshop can do animated GIF but it isn’t the best tool. Yes, it can do the basic animated GIF *but* if you want to do the more advanced animated GIF then IR is not capable of.

As I said, the easiest tool to create smooth animated GIF is using the MORPH program. Yes, it will create a very LARGE animated GIF file, but you can reduce number of frame to reduce the size. And if you know animated GIF well enough then you can use Photoshop to modify the select FRAME to reduce the size even smaller.

And as I said, IR won’t be the right tool or it won’t be capable of doing the higher level of animated GIF. You will need something similar to Ulead GIF Animator to do it.

Joel wrote:

[snip all Joel’s drivel]

It must suck to be you.

Joel wrote:

You are too stupid because it’s true that Photoshop can’t do animated GIF.

Make an appointment for a reality check, Joel.

John J wrote:

Joel wrote:

"John J" wrote:

"dvus" wrote in message

John J wrote:

Gary Edstrom wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:54:53 -0500, John J wrote:

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Killfile.

Why must simple questions ALWAYS degerate into mud slinging???

I have to wonder how a person who can afford CS is also too dim to learn what it does right out of the box.

I’d bet the vast majority of owners of CS don’t know *everything* it’ll do. It’d take a lifetime to use every feature.

True, but I am irked when someone claims "CS can’t do it" and then goes on to recommend some half-baked product instead.

You are too stupid because it’s true that Photoshop can’t do animated GIF.

Make an appointment for a reality check, Joel.

You still think you need a recheck?

John J wrote:

John J wrote:

Gary Edstrom wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:54:53 -0500, John J wrote:

You ignorant POS. Of course PS will. You paid all that money for PS and you don’t even know what it can do.

Killfile.

Why must simple questions ALWAYS degerate into mud slinging???

I have to wonder how a person who can afford CS is also too dim to learn what it does right out of the box.

Because you are too stupid to realize that Photoshop isn’t designed to do animated GIF, and even if it’s capable too it’s still not the best tool. Have you wonder why you have the brain but too stupid to use it? Joel wrote:

[snip all Joel’s drivel]

It must suck to be you.

Could be! but we are talking about how stupid you are here. And since you are too stupid to get it so more hint to others.

MORPH isn’t just much easier than any GIF Animator but it can do much more than any GIF Animator and with Photoshop skill can. Because.

– It not only does everything automatically all by itself.

– It is not only doing GIF Animating but can transform one thing to other automatically. Example you can transform a human into animal or opposite which won’t be easy with Photoshop.

– It requires few basic selecting areas, number of frame then a single CLICK and it does everything by itself.

And you can just Google for MORPHing and you should be able to see tons of samples to get the idea what MORPH is about and how easy it’s. Me? I know lot more about animated GIF then most average animated GIF makers so try not to fool me.

Joel wrote:

– It requires few basic selecting areas, number of frame then a single CLICK and it does everything by itself.

And you can just Google for MORPHing and you should be able to see tons of samples to get the idea what MORPH is about and how easy it’s. Me? I know lot more about animated GIF then most average animated GIF makers so try not to fool me.

The OP’s question was not about morphing. He wanted to make a simple, transitional fade between two frames.

John J wrote:

Joel wrote:

– It requires few basic selecting areas, number of frame then a single CLICK and it does everything by itself.

And you can just Google for MORPHing and you should be able to see tons of samples to get the idea what MORPH is about and how easy it’s. Me? I know lot more about animated GIF then most average animated GIF makers so try not to fool me.

The OP’s question was not about morphing. He wanted to make a simple, transitional fade between two frames.

I thought you already have me kill-filed, and still too stupid to understand the information I am trying to pass around. I don’t really care what the OP wants (even what the OP really want is the info I pass along), because if you want an easiest way and smoothest (transformer) then MORPHing is the way.

– It’s much easier which requires no brain or just a little brain to select some specific area (like to transform from animal to human or older to younger etc.). If not then just lets the program select the whole image

– Set number of FRAME you wish to create, then click the BUTTON then that’s it! The program does everything for you.

It can’t be simpler than that. And as we can see the OP is DEAD!

Joel wrote:

John J wrote:

Joel wrote:

– It requires few basic selecting areas, number of frame then a single CLICK and it does everything by itself.

And you can just Google for MORPHing and you should be able to see tons of samples to get the idea what MORPH is about and how easy it’s. Me? I know lot more about animated GIF then most average animated GIF makers so try not to fool me.

The OP’s question was not about morphing. He wanted to make a simple, transitional fade between two frames.

I thought you already have me kill-filed, and still too stupid to understand the information I am trying to pass around. I don’t really care what the OP wants (even what the OP really want is the info I pass along), because if you want an easiest way and smoothest (transformer) then MORPHing is the way.

Hey, fukwit. Meet me IRL for a reality check.

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:07:48 -0700, Gary Edstrom
wrote:

I have several sets of ‘Then and Now’ pictures around Southern California. I have loaded a pair of them into different layers in Photoshop and have registered them almost exactly. It’s interesting to fade back and forth by adjusting the opacity of the upper layer.
Is there any sort of utility in the Adobe arsenal that would allow me to post the pair of pictures on the web and have them fade back-and-forth for viewers?

Here is my first pair of pictures simply stacked one-above-the-other. This is the north-bound Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles at the Vermont Avenue over crossing. The two pictures were taken in 1956 by my father and in 2006 by me:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

As someone has mentioned, the easiest way to do this is to use morphing software like Morpheus
http://www.morpheussoftware.net/morpheus/
I used it and made this transition of your two pictures in about 30 seconds. I uploaded it to Bigupload so that you can see what Morpheus can do. Here’s the Bigupload link to the avi.
http://www.bigupload.com/files/YZ2L44F1WG/freeway.avi.zip.ht ml If you’ve never used Biguploads before, when you click on the above link, it will take you to a page where you need to select the "Free" button at the bottom. The next window requires you to type in the code at the top of the page. Once you’ve done that, you can begin the download.
If there was a better place to post the file, I would have used it, but Biguploads is about the same as all of the other free file hosting sites, so that’s what I used.

Talker

John J wrote:

Joel wrote:

John J wrote:

Joel wrote:

– It requires few basic selecting areas, number of frame then a single CLICK and it does everything by itself.

And you can just Google for MORPHing and you should be able to see tons of samples to get the idea what MORPH is about and how easy it’s. Me? I know lot more about animated GIF then most average animated GIF makers so try not to fool me.

The OP’s question was not about morphing. He wanted to make a simple, transitional fade between two frames.

I thought you already have me kill-filed, and still too stupid to understand the information I am trying to pass around. I don’t really care what the OP wants (even what the OP really want is the info I pass along), because if you want an easiest way and smoothest (transformer) then MORPHing is the way.

Hey, fukwit. Meet me IRL for a reality check.

You are too stupid to come up with some excuse to explain why you don’t think you are that stupid?

So, next time DO NOT try to correct anyone unless you are very sure you know the answer. And even I know you are dead wrong but I don’t even care to correct you, but to give you the information so you can learn to improve your technique instead of trying to be smarter than what you really are.

Joel wrote:

So, next time DO NOT try to correct anyone unless you are very sure you know the answer. And even I know you are dead wrong but I don’t even care to correct you, but to give you the information so you can learn to improve your technique instead of trying to be smarter than what you really are.

You are a psychotic, not worth my time, but I’d be more than happy to meet you face-to-face for the very few seconds it would take to wipe your sorry person off the face of the planet.

You are stupid and impotent and worthless beyond redemption.

Make my day. IRL. Or shut the fuck up.

Talker wrote:

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:07:48 -0700, Gary Edstrom
wrote:

I have several sets of ‘Then and Now’ pictures around Southern California. I have loaded a pair of them into different layers in Photoshop and have registered them almost exactly. It’s interesting to fade back and forth by adjusting the opacity of the upper layer.
Is there any sort of utility in the Adobe arsenal that would allow me to post the pair of pictures on the web and have them fade back-and-forth for viewers?

Here is my first pair of pictures simply stacked one-above-the-other. This is the north-bound Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles at the Vermont Avenue over crossing. The two pictures were taken in 1956 by my father and in 2006 by me:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

As someone has mentioned, the easiest way to do this is to use morphing software like Morpheus
http://www.morpheussoftware.net/morpheus/
I used it and made this transition of your two pictures in about 30 seconds. I uploaded it to Bigupload so that you can see what Morpheus can do. Here’s the Bigupload link to the avi.
http://www.bigupload.com/files/YZ2L44F1WG/freeway.avi.zip.ht ml If you’ve never used Biguploads before, when you click on the above link, it will take you to a page where you need to select the "Free" button at the bottom. The next window requires you to type in the code at the top of the page. Once you’ve done that, you can begin the download.
If there was a better place to post the file, I would have used it, but Biguploads is about the same as all of the other free file hosting sites, so that’s what I used.

Talker

That’s the ticket! and people can see that it’s beyond what normal GIF Animator and Photoship can do, and it’s MUCH easier to do with MORPH program than any GIF Animator.

And for GIF Animation, the IR can only do the basic but not advanced animated GIF which will require the program with MORE features/options than IR.

John J wrote:

Joel wrote:

John J wrote:

Joel wrote:

– It requires few basic selecting areas, number of frame then a single CLICK and it does everything by itself.

And you can just Google for MORPHing and you should be able to see tons of samples to get the idea what MORPH is about and how easy it’s. Me? I know lot more about animated GIF then most average animated GIF makers so try not to fool me.

The OP’s question was not about morphing. He wanted to make a simple, transitional fade between two frames.

I thought you already have me kill-filed, and still too stupid to understand the information I am trying to pass around. I don’t really care what the OP wants (even what the OP really want is the info I pass along), because if you want an easiest way and smoothest (transformer) then MORPHing is the way.

Hey, fukwit. Meet me IRL for a reality check.

So, next time DO NOT try to correct anyone unless you are very sure you know the answer. And even I know you are dead wrong but I don’t even care to correct you, but to give you the information so you can learn to improve your technique instead of trying to be smarter than what you really are.

You are a psychotic, not worth my time, but I’d be more than happy to meet you face-to-face for the very few seconds it would take to wipe your sorry person off the face of the planet.

You are stupid and impotent and worthless beyond redemption.

Do you think I think you really worth my time? I just use the same message to point out how stupid you are, and passing the real information to anyone who needs it.

Make my day. IRL. Or shut the fuck up.

Make your day! I just grab and stick your head into my below hole, then fart you out just like a Champaign cork <bg>

Make my day! what a joke!

On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:14:01 -0500, Talker
scribbled:

If there was a better place to post the file, I would have used it, but Biguploads is about the same as all of the other free file hosting sites, so that’s what I used.

Well, except for photobucket, imageshack or any of the other free hosts that don’t make you jump through moronic hoops.

I have several sets of ‘Then and Now’ pictures around Southern California. I have loaded a pair of them into different layers in Photoshop and have registered them almost exactly. It’s interesting to fade back and forth by adjusting the opacity of the upper layer.
Is there any sort of utility in the Adobe arsenal that would allow me to post the pair of pictures on the web and have them fade back-and-forth for viewers?

Here is my first pair of pictures simply stacked one-above-the-other. This is the north-bound Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles at the Vermont Avenue over crossing. The two pictures were taken in 1956 by my father and in 2006 by me:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

As someone has mentioned, the easiest way to do this is to use morphing software like Morpheus
http://www.morpheussoftware.net/morpheus/
I used it and made this transition of your two pictures in about 30 seconds. I uploaded it to Bigupload so that you can see what Morpheus can do. Here’s the Bigupload link to the avi.
http://www.bigupload.com/files/YZ2L44F1WG/freeway.avi.zip.ht ml If you’ve never used Biguploads before, when you click on the above link, it will take you to a page where you need to select the "Free" button at the bottom. The next window requires you to type in the code at the top of the page. Once you’ve done that, you can begin the download.
If there was a better place to post the file, I would have used it, but Biguploads is about the same as all of the other free file hosting sites, so that’s what I used.

That morph transition was rather jarring. Why not use a slideshow app to make a simple fade transition (see link – 152 kb)?

http://www.bigupload.com/files/9LE81JRJA8/Hwd_Fwy.flv.zip.ht ml

M.L. wrote:

<snip>

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg
Gary

As someone has mentioned, the easiest way to do this is to use morphing software like Morpheus
http://www.morpheussoftware.net/morpheus/
I used it and made this transition of your two pictures in about 30 seconds. I uploaded it to Bigupload so that you can see what Morpheus can do. Here’s the Bigupload link to the avi.
http://www.bigupload.com/files/YZ2L44F1WG/freeway.avi.zip.ht ml If you’ve never used Biguploads before, when you click on the above link, it will take you to a page where you need to select the "Free" button at the bottom. The next window requires you to type in the code at the top of the page. Once you’ve done that, you can begin the download.
If there was a better place to post the file, I would have used it, but Biguploads is about the same as all of the other free file hosting sites, so that’s what I used.

That morph transition was rather jarring. Why not use a slideshow app to make a simple fade transition (see link – 152 kb)?

Slideshow is even worse than regular animated GIF. Photos presentation is part of what I am doing for $$$$ (part of photography) so I pretty much know what slideshow can do. And yes, the presentation I use has couple hundreds transitions.

<snip>

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg

As someone has mentioned, the easiest way to do this is to use morphing software like Morpheus
http://www.morpheussoftware.net/morpheus/
I used it and made this transition of your two pictures in about 30 seconds. I uploaded it to Bigupload so that you can see what Morpheus can do. Here’s the Bigupload link to the avi.
http://www.bigupload.com/files/YZ2L44F1WG/freeway.avi.zip.ht ml

That morph transition was rather jarring. Why not use a slideshow app to make a simple fade transition (see link – 152 kb)?

http://www.bigupload.com/files/9LE81JRJA8/Hwd_Fwy.flv.zip.ht ml

Slideshow is even worse than regular animated GIF. Photos presentation is part of what I am doing for $$$$ (part of photography) so I pretty much know what slideshow can do. And yes, the presentation I use has couple hundreds transitions.

But the fact remains that the morph transition just didn’t look very good, and the low-quality slideshow transition looked better. Imagine how much better a high-quality rendering would look. And both would take about the same amount of time to implement.

Since you didn’t excise the 13.3 MB morph avi link, I added the 152 KB slideshow link again so others can see the difference for themselves.

Good pix.

Check out this slide show script – works on most web servers and does a nice looking fade transition. Free.

http://phpshow.panmental.de/
—
Mike Russell – http://www.curvemeister.com

M.L. wrote:

<snip>

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg

As someone has mentioned, the easiest way to do this is to use morphing software like Morpheus
http://www.morpheussoftware.net/morpheus/
I used it and made this transition of your two pictures in about 30 seconds. I uploaded it to Bigupload so that you can see what Morpheus can do. Here’s the Bigupload link to the avi.
http://www.bigupload.com/files/YZ2L44F1WG/freeway.avi.zip.ht ml

That morph transition was rather jarring. Why not use a slideshow app to make a simple fade transition (see link – 152 kb)?

http://www.bigupload.com/files/9LE81JRJA8/Hwd_Fwy.flv.zip.ht ml

Slideshow is even worse than regular animated GIF. Photos presentation is part of what I am doing for $$$$ (part of photography) so I pretty much know what slideshow can do. And yes, the presentation I use has couple hundreds transitions.

But the fact remains that the morph transition just didn’t look very good, and the low-quality slideshow transition looked better. Imagine how much better a high-quality rendering would look. And both would take about the same amount of time to implement.

Since you didn’t excise the 13.3 MB morph avi link, I added the 152 KB slideshow link again so others can see the difference for themselves.

MORPHing will transform any normal photos into smooth video clip which no way animated GIF can archive, and slideshow is no where near animted GIF.

IOW, slideshow with transition can do more than animated GIF can, but it uses its very own transition (screen effect) which has nothing to do with the original photos. Animated GIF is not much different than regular slideshow except more frame to make a small change at a time, and the advanced animated GIF requires even more frame but make the size much smaller than regular full frame animated GIF.

MORPHing, in other hand is the combination of animated GIF and special photo modification that turn 2 photos into a smooth video clip.

Joel wrote:

MORPHing, in other hand is the combination of animated GIF and special photo modification that turn 2 photos into a smooth video clip.

Please provide URLs which demonstrate what you mean.

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg

As someone has mentioned, the easiest way to do this is to use morphing software like Morpheus
http://www.morpheussoftware.net/morpheus/
I used it and made this transition of your two pictures in about 30 seconds. I uploaded it to Bigupload so that you can see what Morpheus can do. Here’s the Bigupload link to the avi.
http://www.bigupload.com/files/YZ2L44F1WG/freeway.avi.zip.ht ml

That morph transition was rather jarring. Why not use a slideshow app to make a simple fade transition (see link – 152 kb)?

http://www.bigupload.com/files/9LE81JRJA8/Hwd_Fwy.flv.zip.ht ml

Slideshow is even worse than regular animated GIF. Photos presentation is part of what I am doing for $$$$ (part of photography) so I pretty much know what slideshow can do. And yes, the presentation I use has couple hundreds transitions.

But the fact remains that the morph transition just didn’t look very good, and the low-quality slideshow transition looked better. Imagine how much better a high-quality rendering would look. And both would take about the same amount of time to implement.

MORPHing will transform any normal photos into smooth video clip which no way animated GIF can archive, and slideshow is no where near animted GIF.
IOW, slideshow with transition can do more than animated GIF can, but it uses its very own transition (screen effect) which has nothing to do with the original photos. Animated GIF is not much different than regular slideshow except more frame to make a small change at a time, and the advanced animated GIF requires even more frame but make the size much smaller than regular full frame animated GIF.

None of that matters since the output of a slideshow can be converted to an animated gif with little or no loss in quality. Check the link below to see for yourself (2.7 MB gif)

http://www.bigupload.com/files/KBI4G2TS4L/hwd_fwy.gif.zip.ht ml

John J wrote:

Joel wrote:

MORPHing, in other hand is the combination of animated GIF and special photo modification that turn 2 photos into a smooth video clip.

Please provide URLs which demonstrate what you mean.

Not for you or no need to prove to you! if you have any brain then Google is your friend.

M.L. wrote:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Hollywood_Freeway_At_Vermo nt.jpg

As someone has mentioned, the easiest way to do this is to use morphing software like Morpheus
http://www.morpheussoftware.net/morpheus/
I used it and made this transition of your two pictures in about 30 seconds. I uploaded it to Bigupload so that you can see what Morpheus can do. Here’s the Bigupload link to the avi.
http://www.bigupload.com/files/YZ2L44F1WG/freeway.avi.zip.ht ml

That morph transition was rather jarring. Why not use a slideshow app to make a simple fade transition (see link – 152 kb)?

http://www.bigupload.com/files/9LE81JRJA8/Hwd_Fwy.flv.zip.ht ml

Slideshow is even worse than regular animated GIF. Photos presentation is part of what I am doing for $$$$ (part of photography) so I pretty much know what slideshow can do. And yes, the presentation I use has couple hundreds transitions.

But the fact remains that the morph transition just didn’t look very good, and the low-quality slideshow transition looked better. Imagine how much better a high-quality rendering would look. And both would take about the same amount of time to implement.

MORPHing will transform any normal photos into smooth video clip which no way animated GIF can archive, and slideshow is no where near animted GIF.
IOW, slideshow with transition can do more than animated GIF can, but it uses its very own transition (screen effect) which has nothing to do with the original photos. Animated GIF is not much different than regular slideshow except more frame to make a small change at a time, and the advanced animated GIF requires even more frame but make the size much smaller than regular full frame animated GIF.

None of that matters since the output of a slideshow can be converted to an animated gif with little or no loss in quality. Check the link below to see for yourself (2.7 MB gif)

No such think of no quality loss to convert anything to GIF. And if you want to know more about what Morph can do then you can always google and you should be anle to find hundreds of thousands of hits.

Joel wrote:

John J wrote:

Joel wrote:

MORPHing, in other hand is the combination of animated GIF and special photo modification that turn 2 photos into a smooth video clip.

Please provide URLs which demonstrate what you mean.

Not for you or no need to prove to you! if you have any brain then Google is your friend.

Nope. Put up or shut up.

John J wrote:

Joel wrote:

John J wrote:

Joel wrote:

MORPHing, in other hand is the combination of animated GIF and special photo modification that turn 2 photos into a smooth video clip.

Please provide URLs which demonstrate what you mean.

Not for you or no need to prove to you! if you have any brain then Google is your friend.

Nope. Put up or shut up.

That’s is what I am trying to tell you, but you are too stupid to get it.