A poorly animated Eclipse

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Never did get the hang of PPM Center.

[Visionoz (Bill)]

JJJ - it looks like you've put and moved your finger over your EP!!

Just joking there - I'm sure you had a good night capturing the eclipse; unfortunately I just used my eyeballs; but it sure looked pretty good anyhow

Cheers
Bill

[Liz]

Cool!!

[Allan_L (Allan)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

... poorly animated eclipse ...

"Poorly animated" ? I don't think so !!!

That's very nice, - show off !!!


thanks for sharing.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Nice sequence. You could easily re-align the subs in PS.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Excellent Animation Jeanette!

I have sent you a PM

[troypiggo (Troy)]

That's really cool. Might have to try it myself.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

I asked before posting so here is an aligned version for Jeanette...

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

That's heaps better Andrew, thanks.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

NP Jeanette, its a great sequence.

[DavidU (Dave)]

Great work jjj ! andrew, what steps in PS to align the subs?

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Hope it's okay to post here..

In PS you can open an animated GIF so every frame has it's own layer.. I on mine only the bottom layer is seen and the others are hidden. I then went to the layer above the one visible and made that one visible and selected difference under the little drop down list... I used the move tool (a cross with arrows on it) to align the frame, then in the drop down list again, I selected normal... I did this all the way through.. it's time consuming but worth it.. there is probably an easier way to do it though...

I then went to file save for web and devices and saved as a GIF again. Now it will be an Animated gif with aligned frames...
Top three hints...

- Don't do this with animations which have lots of frames
- Make sure all frames are normal before saving
- Remember to save as a GIF..

Hope this helps a little. If you have any other trouble please PM me.

[h0ughy (David)]

nice one JJJ

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

PPM Centre should have done the job for me, but all the frames ended up coming out warped. ......stupid 64bit windoze 7 ....mutter mutter

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

I did try Registax first but it kept misaligning it at the later stages of the eclipse. So I gave up and used PS.

[Allan_L (Allan)]

I actually prefer the original JJJ.

[John Hothersall]

Perfect in my eyes.

John.

[midnight (Darrin)]

Great animation. Well done as I really like this one

And to think that they used to believe the Earth was flat many many many moons ago...

Cheers,
Darrin...

[bartman (Bart)]

Love It JJJ,
Its soooo what I wanted to do but the clouds and rain came in

And thanks Andrew for the quick Tute!

Bartman