General Questions Thread

[Terrestrial Dream]

hmm... *start searching for the old post of my AS seniors*

[Shay]

What is the name of that show that targets pedophiles by luring them into thinking they're actually going to meet someone they met online and then some guy jumps out all like "hey, what ya doing, looks like you got a good night planned?"

[NoSanninWa]

Well... according google, that is probably Dateline.

http://thephoenix.com/SlopCulture/20...ileReveal.aspx

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...7140628AAd4g7n

[Vinak]

so i feel like an idiot atm...

how do you open animated gifs in photoshop without losing the animation?

I made this today and now i can't edit it without starting over.



Edit:
oh I am using CS3 atm.

[Aoie_Emesai]

Originally Posted by Vinak

so i feel like an idiot atm...

how do you open animated gifs in photoshop without losing the animation?

I made this today and now i can't edit it without starting over.



Edit:
oh I am using CS3 atm.

I don't believe Photoshop has the ability to open animated sequences. You'll have to use Adode ImageReady or another program that can open read gif files. Even if you did open a gif file with photoshop, it will only show the first layer of the gif, meaning the very first image in the gif/file.

[Ledgem]

Originally Posted by Aoie_Emesai

I don't believe Photoshop has the ability to open animated sequences. You'll have to use Adode ImageReady or another program that can open gif files.

The problem is ImageReady no longer exists as of CS3. According to the Wikipedia article some of ImageReady's functionality was integrated into CS3 (such as "Save for web & devices"), and the article speculates that part of the reason that ImageReady was discontinued is because it's no longer necessary now that Adobe owns Fireworks (which used to be a Macromedia application specialized for web graphics and animations). I'm not sure if using Fireworks will give you the functionality that ImageReady did.

[Vinak]

so you can make animated sequences in Photoshop but you can't open them and edit them afterwards.

...that makes perfect sense?




thanks for the replies.

[Aoie_Emesai]

Originally Posted by Ledgem

The problem is ImageReady no longer exists as of CS3. According to the Wikipedia article some of ImageReady's functionality was integrated into CS3 (such as "Save for web & devices"), and the article speculates that part of the reason that ImageReady was discontinued is because it's no longer necessary now that Adobe owns Fireworks (which used to be a Macromedia application specialized for web graphics and animations). I'm not sure if using Fireworks will give you the functionality that ImageReady did.

Ahh no wonder I didn't know. I did install CS3, but didn't pay attention to much of the programs that came with it, also I didn't like CS3 due to my lack of time to dedicate my self to learn some of the new tricks and i've been so accustomed to CS2 so I just basically stopped using CS3 and uninstalled it.

Originally Posted by Vinak

so you can make animated sequences in Photoshop but you can't open them and edit them afterwards.

...that makes perfect sense?




thanks for the replies.

Well... frame by frame is what we would call sequence and yes photoshop can do that. But it lacks the function to layer images into a frame by frame function. Though you can save it to a gif format, you are stuck with a still image with no animation function once so ever.

I use Imageready when I try to create a animation and using photoshop to adjust and create images for it. Actually I found it easier to user Coral 10 for my image needs that doesn't require too much image manipulations. (plus they have ez borders ^^ from the default that the program do come with) Using Coral X for the images and transferring them to Imageready.

Now I use to have Paint Shop Pro 7, and it came with a very simple animation program but I don't remember what i was called. But I found that program to be the simplest of all animation programs so far, but it's a shareware >.<

[WanderingKnight]

I've got a stupid question.

What the hell do you call this:



in proper English?

It's the "dotted outline" on selections. It's driven me insane all of my life, and on every graphical environment I've used. The only one that I *think* (I cannot remember right now) isn't affected by this is the GNOME interface, but I'm not so sure--I've been using KDE for the past month. But I've seen this on Windows, and if my memory doesn't fail me, I also used to see it on the old Mac OS, and I haven't touched OS X enough to know if it happens or not. And the thing is so random (it basically appears whenever it wants to, and doesn't want to go away for a long time after that) that I really can't find an explanation for it.

Konqueror, as a file browser, does it all the damn time and it bothers the hell out of me. And what bothers me most is that I can't find a single way of describing the thing so I can look up for a solution, or at the very least, an explanation.

[Ledgem]

Good question. I don't really know that there is a term for it, but it serves to highlight a selection of sorts. You could call it "selection highlight" or "selection outline" but that might yield some weird results. The purpose for it, as far as I know, is for keyboard operation in a GUI environment. For example, if you try tabbing around a webpage you'll see that toggle over various buttons and links to let you know what will be activated if you press other keys (like enter or space).

[WanderingKnight]

Yeah, I understand why it can be useful while using a keyboard to navigate through a GUI, but I don't want to see it when I'm *clicking*.

[KholdStare]

Crap...what. I totally uninstalled everything related to Adobe and installed CS3. Is there a way to make animated gifs now or do I have to re-install Imageready somehow?

[SeijiSensei]

How about the GIMP? Even someone with as little prior experience as me figured out how to add layers and save an animated gif in the GIMP. Some people hate the interface, though, especially people who think all graphics programs should look like Photoshop. If you find the UI off-putting, you can try GIMPshop, an effort to build a Photoshop-like interface for the GIMP. I've never used it because it started with the GIMP originally.

The GIMP is completely open-source, GPL in fact, and cross-platform with builds for Windows, Macs, and Linux.

[KholdStare]

Interesting, thanks for that. I'll be disappointed if there isn't an Adobe way to do this though, since this "upgrade" wouldn't really be an upgrade after all.

[felix]

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=26533

Step By Step Guides To Making Avatars --> Guide a) by Neaco

It's the first link on the page, you can't miss it.

[KholdStare]

Well, it's not the first link on the page but I finally found a link further down, so thanks!

And btw, it was:

http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=1398342

[felix]

What do you mean?

It reads as follows,

The following tutorials have been made (mostly) in Photoshop and ImageReady.
Note : ImageReady comes with PhotoShop ( disappeared in CS3 - but all functionality is still present in Photoshop )
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Step By Step Guides To Making Avatars

1. by Neaco ( presumes previous knowledge / Photoshop CS3 )

There is only one link in the quote. (the big blue text which reads: "by Neaco")
But I'm glad you found it anyway.

[LiberLibri]

Do pupils in the US employ mile/pound/gallon in physics classes?

[Kyuusai]

Originally Posted by LiberLibri

Do pupils in the US employ mile/pound/gallon in physics classes?

It depends on the school, but the answer is often still "yes". In my observation, though, the higher the education level, the greater the likelyhood of eschewing Imperial units. With better communication in the modern age, metric is far more likely among, say, graduate students who are doing actual scholarly work and therefore communicating internationally as part of their school/work.

Although it wasn't physics, my favorite example was in my college trigonometry class. On our first test, without warning, we were expected to convert from one Imperial unit to another to have the correct answer. I refused, and earned a failing grade on the test because of it. In truth, although I refused to do all of them, few of the conversions I actually didn't know. I only had to learn them once in elementary school, and I've never needed or used them afterward. Even when used in my math and physics classes, conversion was never required.

With such a history of Imperial measurements being utilized in US products, I can completely understand the continued teaching of Imperial measurements, but I hope it is considered a legacy system very soon.

[KholdStare]

We do both equally, kinda. In my chemistry class, not only do we need to know the metric system AND the Imperial system, but we have to know how to convert them by memory. An example is a problem finding out which car has more mileage, one is given in miles/gallon and one is given in kilometers/liter. It's not that we throw away the Imperial system, but since it is so common, we're expected to know the metric system and converting it so our friends could understand.

In physics, everything is mostly in m/s, and it was actually annoying when the teacher gives us a problem in ft/s, since you're so used to measuring speed in m/s. But whoever knows what ft/s is, right? We measure in miles/hour. For example, I know what gravity is in m/s² exactly, but if you ask me what it is in ft/s² I would only be able to give you an estimate.