<—- just made my first ever avatar – Beckett's moment of fangirl joy before Castle interrupts…

Heh, this thread sure is FULL of pretty, huh? :D

Brand-spanking new Ep.6 animated av. Thanks to Ashley for the tutorial and helping me get the brightness/contrast to work over the whole .gif! It took me forever to get it all working, and it's kinda fuzzy, but I still like it. Yay Mal.

Thanks muchly. I wish it was crisper, but I'm sure it's just big and that's what's messing with the image quality. And I already forgot which font I used… what was it called? Heh, sorry.

Ohh, that does make more sense. :D

And I gotta tell you again how much I love your new icon. I just keep staring at it…

ashley_slomo said:

Yeah, that might have something to do with it. Changing the amount of colors (ie. from 256 to 128 to 64) can also change the quality.

Don't worry about it, I've got plenty of other fonts to choose from ;)

Haha, thanks! Yes, me too… wonder what scene I'll get to do next week? :D

Ashley, love your avatars.  I go on line every day to check for your posts.  I watched your tutorial but it is way above my head.  Keep up the good work.

Okeydoke. I'm curious as to whether or not GreenyJess would rather I open up my own topic rather than hijack hers, but… for now I'll just post here :)

Here's a few more animated ones. My most recent "cherries" one got yoinked by another user (which is totally fine, because it gave me an excuse to make a new one!) so I thought I'd just put out a rule:

PLEASE, if you're gonna use my icons (yay!), could you put a credit in your signature? And if I'm using an avatar could you ask before you use the same one? I don't mind being avatar twins, but I barely had that one up for 12 hours before it got snatched. Understandable though, it's a cute scene

Thanks muchly!

And now, roll those beautiful icons!

ACTUALLY: For anyone who doesn't feel like going back to page 1, I'll post my other animated ones here too. So here's the complete collection!

More are on the way!

GreenyJess said:

Oh, they're so pretty all together like that! 'Cherries' is still my fave though. And why would I mind you posting in here? It's for anyone making season 2 avatars to post in! Silly, like I'm gonna tell you to move all those pretties?!

Think I'm gonna try and fix my newest one. It has so much potential…

Oh, grazie very much! Yes, I think I like that one the most, too. I especially enjoyed making it! I think it was because I was still on a post-Castle high, lmao. Hehe, good. Then here is where I'll post em!

Yayy, go for it. It really does

Haha, that video is so cute! Nathan's voice has changed a little bit since then.

Here's my try, stupid ratings box thing in the corner kept me from getting his gun in the scene though.

Aw, Ashley!!  It is better than mine.  It's faster, cleaner, and smoother.  I'll bet it's a combo of better video quality to start with and better program to work with.  My ImageReadyI 3.0 must be just ancient!  I had the same problem with the rating box, though mine didn't have the HD box on there… again, that's prolly why my vid is lower quality, lol.  Great work!  As far as Nathan's voice, I think the sound quality on that vid was just bad.  It all sounded a little off to me.

Deb, you're too sweet.  And I would LOVE to see some behind the scenes footage of that shoot, because I'm betting he did.

My IR doesn't seem to have quite as many options as you have.  I adjusted everything I could find to adjust in the optimized settings and that's the best I could do.  Well yeah, the program's old, lol.  Yep, it does fine with the .mpg's- I've never tried an .mov because my file converter doesn't do that… I don't think.  Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've tried that.  Maybe we'll give that a go next time and see what happens.

Woah! How'd I miss that?!

Wonder if it was intentional…?

Beautiful avatars, everyone! I am having THE hardest time uploading an avatar for my own use…is there some kind of secret thing you're supposed to do? I think I actually pulled it off on another account I'd made, but as soon as I tried to update a signature it didn't work. Such a bummer, all of these lovely avatars and I can't use them!

I am, which has given me the boring generic avatar, lol. Then I upload the avatar, which apparently works, but as soon as I click the update button I get the Grey Spiraly Thingie of Doom. I've tried it on Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox, and still get the same thing. I thought it might have something to do that my account is relatively old and I need to make a new one, but that didn't work either. Rargh!