get off my lawn, part 1e38
Nov. 15th, 2005 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serindeI want better iconnage. However, my l33t graphics sk1llz are limited to Zog Crop Picture, Zog Resize Picture, and MY TEXT IZ PASTEDE ON YAY!. I've tried several times to embark on a glorious learning spree of layers and filters and shadows and animated GIFs and lord knows what, but I'm drinking from a fire hose and after about ten minutes my eyes have glazed over and I slink off to do something easy, like, I don't know, custom sendmail rules.
There are tutorials. Oh my yes, are there ever tutorials. There are so many tutorials, my eyes glaze over just trying to parse the enormous list of them. I don't need much, just some basic functionality of "here is how we make text look like it's part of the picture", "here is how to make a basic animated icon". Where, O where shall I find my grail-shaped beacon?
My stomach is upset, but I'm fairly sure that's unrelated.
There are tutorials. Oh my yes, are there ever tutorials. There are so many tutorials, my eyes glaze over just trying to parse the enormous list of them. I don't need much, just some basic functionality of "here is how we make text look like it's part of the picture", "here is how to make a basic animated icon". Where, O where shall I find my grail-shaped beacon?
My stomach is upset, but I'm fairly sure that's unrelated.
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Date: 2005-11-16 06:18 am (UTC)1) make each frame, as PPM written by an ugly Perl-and-shell "one-liner", because that was easier than trying to stuff the math into something more fluffy
2) obtain gifsicle (http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/), because the ImageMagick of the time (mid-2003) would output uncompressed GIFs because of patent stuff
3) uh, something like that, but with gifsicle and its optimization flag(s)