Adobe's
Image Ready comes bundled with
Photoshop
5.5 and above.
After
I.R. 7.0 kb . jpg
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Before
I. R. 107 kb .jpg
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It has two great functions. One, it can
compress your graphics for the web down to a very teeny, manageble and
speedy download size, and for that alone it is worth it's portion of the
package price. But secondly, it is a great animation program. It will even
create "fill-in" pictures beween two existing views of an object/person
and let you include tham in our animation sequence.
 
The source flag was originally a 547 psd |
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This
nifty trick is called "tweening" and a whole lot of people in the "old
days" of Disney and Warner Bros. hand made cartoon animation made a career
out of what this program will do for you in seconds once you know how to
use it. It is much easier to learn than Macromedia's FLASH and much easier
to place the final animation in web pages or other media.
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This 14.0 Kb animated .gif started out as two photoshop .psd
files, each in excess of 500 kb each. Each picture was reduced to
a small transparent gif and then they were "tweened" in I.R for the above
result. |
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Combining 2 sets of animation frames that were both already recduced,
we have a custom .gif animation of 54.8 kb. |
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