How do you make moving sigs?

I've always wanted a sig, but never knew how to make one. Can someone teach me how to make an animated sig?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5519
or
http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/

That gets you animation, at least. Getting a sig to look good is more complicated than that..

I've dealt with unfreez a bit. It comes out a tad...grainy? But it looks good.


To make an old one for my islander, I ended up taking a screenie from the game for the background. Then I imported it into BannedStory and made the characters in there. Then I just print screened into paint and cropped it to the right size. Simplistic, but it worked.

Heh, actually found it:

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And in general, making a signature is pretty easy - even if it isn't animated. Still shots are nice too.

An animated sig is like a cartoon, just images in sequence.

I make mine with (lots) layers in photoshop. Duplicate one layer, adjust it for a bit, the duplicate again and repeat it till you get back to your original frame without anyone noticing it.

When you have all layers finished, make a .gif sequence with all of them in Image Ready (also from adobe, like photoshop).

It takes a lot of time to make (a good) one. But you can start simple with just 2-3 images sequenced in a row.

Just don't give up half way in the proces!

I've dealt with unfreez a bit. It comes out a tad...grainy? But it looks good.

That's cause GIFs are 8 bit color (256 colors), so if you take a MS screenshot and convert it to GIF, whatever program you're using will dither it in order to fit it into 256 colors.

One reason why I personally prefer APNG.

Ty Russt for the technical explanation.

I use bannedstory with sony vegas and photoshop. Sony Vegas is pretty simple if you can get your hands on it. Photoshop is just a few guides away from mostly being understood. There are some youtube videos that explain how to use SV i think.