(Link: http://www.userbars.co.uk/search.ph....co.uk/search.php?query=Phantom69&type=author the ones down the bottom are the best, compared to the older ones up the top. your friend the phantom69
plus its good if you want to put like 20 user bars in your sig.. why do they look distorted tho when you turn them into a animated gif? i need to redo my psp one
well, i tried to make it as small file as I could, soo I "broke the image"... and cos most of the ones i put on were 350x19, my sig bars are 300x20...
does any Flash(ers) know how to make it the same size and not lose quality? would it just be trace image at the highest quality? and what is the highest quality in trace image/bitmap?
@ Creaky: Thanks for the animated userbar nod. I too liked the idea of being able to use a bunch of userbars, while only taking up the space of a single bar. With that said I probably wasn't the first to do so, but I'd be more then willing to help assemble animated userbars if needed. When I get the time I'll probably make a few userbars myself, though we've already had so many submissions I don't know what'd they be on. =P @ wagsadog: Anytime an image is stretched or compressed to a size/shape that differs from it's original attributes, there will almost always be some type of image loss. Especially when the new image size is a totally different proportion ratio. However, certain programs try to minimize the loss of clarity. Photoshop and Paintshop Pro do so, as I've used them, and I'd suppose GIMP would too but I don't really know from experience. You could try resizing each bar before using an animator. I'll post some attempts at minimizing the clarity loss later. The only true way to keep it perfect is just to keep the image in it's natural attributes. (I just position the shorter userbars to the left in mine.) Edit: As you can see they're not perfect, but I don't think they're terrible. The Windows XP bar was shrunk down to 300x20 and the AMD User was stretched to 350x19. The main problem is that they're not the same aspect ratio, so we're getting stretching from all different directions. But if you fool around with the resampling settings when you resize the image, you can TRY to make it look a little better. Plus, you can choose which size you want to stick with according to your own liking. Maybe you like how the bars look when stretched to 350x19 vs. the larger one's shrunk to 300x20. Then you can just choose what looks best and use that size. =P
ok.. this is what i found and this is how i did mine.. you can only do 6 on one.. but its easy.. just upload the images.. and they do it for you.. i've actually downloaded it off the image shack and put it into my own photobucket.. but anyways.. here it is http://www.userbars.org/animation/
Creaky's idea is nice, but the one problem would be that not everyone here has flash at their disposal, and the fact that flash requires some skill to work with...
Yep, thelox is right, you don't need Flash. I don't use Flash my self, well not for animated gifs anyway. You can use any animated gif creator; I personally use JASC Animation Shop 3 and thelox has provided a great free compiler!
i'm just pre-empting the Admins noticing them and having a fit (maybe they won't, dunno), so if there are ways to have various bars alternating in a very small space, that'd be a way to appease them, that's all
Oh dear, seems I may have started something off with these flash sigs -- Some are rather distracting/annoying as the framerate is way too low, and thus the .gifs are too fast/flickery. When making these types of sigs, please try and keep at a decent amount of time between each frame, as they seem to be getting faster & faster. I am in no authority to tell people what to do & what not to do, but I just hope you see the point I am trying to get accross. Cheers.
Thanks for the link to the animator thelox714. I had actually only been using a couple of them as i didnt want my sig to get too big. Now i can have them alternate. I was going to leave it with the 2 second time between them but changed it to a 3 second delay now.. I was going to ask how to do that, and the answer is right here.
You can also easily make .gifs using macromedia fireworks. It is a great proggy with a whole host of image modifying features. It's not on the same level as photoshop, but it is generally a lot simpler.
