Egghead's Animated Sig Tutorial

[egghead]

Now lets add text.


http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/7...ingtool9ag.jpg

Select the text tool and left click on the picture where you want to place text.



In the text box choose your color, font and size and type in your text. Your text will now be in the picture. In all the frames you will need to select the "show" button to show your text for each frame.

save your work!

Now we can preview what we've done and decide if we like it.

We like it so lets save it and optimize it.

Select the optimize tab and we will now save the work.



Press the save as button to save without compression.



We are now going to compress the file to work at techzonez.

Select the comress by size button.



In the box type 79 and press ok/



You will see a preview of your compressed image.
*Note - you can increase and decrease the quality before saving if neccessary.

Here are the before and after pictures.

Uncompressed, 122k

http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/6...pressed8wd.gif

Compressed, 80k

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/3...pressed2da.gif

There you go! hope this gives you an idea how to do this kinda stuff. It really is a lot of fun and I hope that it helps you. Let mer know if you like it and please lets see your work

If you want to display your pictures you can use imageshack to host your pictures and display them here using image tags


www.imageshack.us

Good luck
Egghead