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Here's a challenge

18 years ago

First off it needs to be translated, but was easy to understand. Secondly when I tested the animation in AS it looked beautiful, once I optimized it not so good. I tried all different settings in optimization but none came out clear. Any suggestions?

Carol

Here is a link that might be useful: blend lesson 5

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reduc500
18 years ago
Looks pretty good to me.
Judy
urlee
18 years ago
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kyry
Original Author
18 years ago
OK Smarty pants, what settings did you use. That is how it is supposed to look! And it's exactly how mine looked before optimizing.
Great job! Now I have another one for you that has to be translated, couldn't deceipher parts of it so I winged it. It's from the same site.
{{!gwi}}
urlee
18 years ago
Oh Carol,
That is so pretty!

What settings did U use for your first one?

Urlee
jacksmum
18 years ago
ooooo lovely.
LOL I'll wait for Urlee to post her optimizing setting BEFORE doing this one
Sue :)
kyry
Original Author
18 years ago
Here is what one of the settings were, I tried it about four different ways.
{{!gwi}}
Carol
urlee
18 years ago
Gosh Carol,
Any smaller, I might be able to read it? "lol"

Check----Yes, blend with this color and have white.

{{!gwi}}
kyry
Original Author
18 years ago
Thanks Urlee, it must have been Convert pixels less than - I had 1 you had 40. Because I had tried both ways of Yes blend with this color and it was white, and the No use the existing image color at 100%. I have never had this problem before, this was the first I played with the settings to try and get it clear. I had gotten my original settings from a post on a forum for optimization settings and like I said it always was fine.

Much better!!!!
urlee
18 years ago
Hey!
That's better than mine.
Glad it worked.

C'mon Sue! "lol"

Urlee
jacksmum
18 years ago
LOL I couldn't even figure out how to translate it!
Think I'll sit this one out
Great work ladies and thanks for the settings Urlee - they will be useful on ALL the gifs

HUGS
Sue :)
gardenbrat53
18 years ago
Great job Carol and Urlee!
Thanks for the link Carol and thanks Urlee for the settings, I had mine set on 1 too.
Sue, this is a link for a translation page, great for tuts that are in a different language. You just copy the url of the tut page and tell it what language to translate from and to, works great. Most I have found are in Dutch.
Here's my try:

Here is a link that might be useful: free translator
urlee
18 years ago
U R Welcome Deb,
Did you still come up with some humdinger of words to understand? Like rasterlaag, kopieer, mengmodus, dupliceer, "blow shadow", and the use of slice & cover?
YIKES!
jacksmum
18 years ago
Thank you Deb - now it sort of makes sense LOL

Urlee "Look at Animatie and hit the on as a POISON truce".
LOL clear as mud eh!

beautiful work ladies
here's mine:
urlee
18 years ago
Wow! The fancy Sue!
That is superb!
Yes, I saw that (poison) but didn't want to scare everyone away.
kyry
Original Author
17 years ago
Beautiful Deb and Sue. Yes I also chuckled to myself at some of the words, but after the third translated tut I almost could figure out what they meant. Except for the one I did above Blend #7 I got really dizzy trying to figure that one out. But they are beautiful and sometimes it just fun to see if you can unscramble the words.
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urlee
17 years ago
MY GOSH CAROL!
Blend 7 is a CORKER!!!!!!!
What the sam H is PLATE?????? (copy your PLATE)
Now I've seen everything!!!!
Something like that would surely discourage anyone from buying PSP!
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