schorpioen Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 hey people! I make a lot of graphics. But I do not know how you can get moving text on a Butten. Can anyone say how to do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xepha Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 This is usually done by moving the text for each frame... It's possible to open the timeline animation in Photoshop for instance and add key frames. If you tell us which applications you use to make graphics, we might be able to help you further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schorpioen Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 I use Gimp. But am always willing to try another site or program... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worstpoetryever Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 I don't use GIMP myself, but they have this tutorial on their website: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/ That seems to be the basics and probably all you need to know. The examples don't look very good, but once you get the basic idea and learn the tools you can apply it to anything :) GIMP offers another product called GAP, if you want to add effects or do bigger, smooth transitions, but it's more advanced and might take a while to get used to. They link to it from the tutorial, but I'd learn to do it the basic way first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schorpioen Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 is there an easier way? I want to try something online ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worstpoetryever Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 It's really not hard if you just carefully read through it and follow the steps. There are online "GIF makers" but what they do is ask you to upload the still pictures you want used and then they just put them together. If you want to make graphics, then that way is more work. The moving text you see on buttons have most likely been animated using the basics from that tutorial. What you see is your browser quickly displaying several different still pictures as one animated button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schorpioen Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 ok, I will try ... but can you give a few sites that I can do that online if it does not work I can try it directly on a site ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamppost Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 I don't know of any ways to animate text online, but I was able to animate text easily using GIMP by following the instructions on this petpage: http://www.neopets.com/~LucysButtonTutorial The tutorial shows how to make a different-colored letter move through the word(s), but you could extrapolate and use the concepts to actually move the letters if you wanted to. The tutorial addresses the basics, where each layer is one frame, and then shows you how to both animate it and save it as a .gif that you can use on Neo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schorpioen Posted August 31, 2013 Author Share Posted August 31, 2013 I tried to make it in Gimp But it did not work. Is there an easier way? another program or something online? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xepha Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Can you show us your results? Make sure to save in .gif or it won't animate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schorpioen Posted September 1, 2013 Author Share Posted September 1, 2013 I mean I can not insert animations. But the results did I remove from my laptop : ( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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