Animated GIFF's as Screenshots
Wednesday, March 3, 2004 by solutiondesign | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
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Koasati
Reply #2 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 12:29 PM
Reply #2 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 12:29 PM
There aren't supposed to be any gif screenshots................ unless something has changed that I'm not aware of. All screenshots should be jpg only.
Essencay
Reply #4 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 7:32 PM
Reply #4 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 7:32 PM
Most of those are 3-4 years old. Upload requirements have probably changed since then 
uM0p apsdn
Reply #5 Thursday, March 4, 2004 9:26 PM
Reply #5 Thursday, March 4, 2004 9:26 PM
Adam!? I don't think it's nessasary to have such a big screenshots (as you may have known). People are more interested in the overall look of the skin rather than the small details of the shot. For the details, they can/will download the skin and play with it.
Shameless Designs
Reply #6 Thursday, March 4, 2004 11:56 PM
Reply #6 Thursday, March 4, 2004 11:56 PM
Quite honestly, Adam, the problem with your screenshots isn't the image format. It's the layout of your shots. They are beautiful shots, very professional in appearance for print. But, they are, on average, twice as big as they need to be. They have way too much white space, and your logo, email, etc, take's up almost as much room as the real image people want to see. Why not make your logo and contact info overlay the shot and get rid of the white space? That way you could cut the image size in half and the corresponding file size by a heck of a lot more. Just a suggestion, but I'd go that way rather than use an inferior image format.
CerebroJD
Reply #7 Friday, March 5, 2004 12:18 AM
Reply #7 Friday, March 5, 2004 12:18 AM
I think Shameless is right Adam, you have too much white space. Cut back on that and you'll be pretty good for file size etc.
uM0p apsdn
Reply #8 Friday, March 5, 2004 12:44 AM
Reply #8 Friday, March 5, 2004 12:44 AM
It would still be too big. I'm running at 1600 and I still have to scroll.
Scroll, scroll, the mouse gently down the page, merryly merryly, the screenshots are still too big.
Scroll, scroll, the mouse gently down the page, merryly merryly, the screenshots are still too big.
goodmorphing
Reply #9 Friday, March 5, 2004 12:48 AM
Reply #9 Friday, March 5, 2004 12:48 AM
...ah, those old time screenies. Its kind of ... thought provoking to go all the way back in time and seeing a little gif there giving its all. Flashing and scrolling away for all time...
*sigh*... if a gif moves in an archive, is there movement?
*sigh*... if a gif moves in an archive, is there movement?
uM0p apsdn
Reply #10 Friday, March 5, 2004 12:50 AM
Reply #10 Friday, March 5, 2004 12:50 AM
*cough*... if a gif moves in an archive, is it really an archive?
goodmorphing
Reply #12 Friday, March 5, 2004 12:56 AM
Reply #12 Friday, March 5, 2004 12:56 AM
.. One of them has a time window with a little gif showing the time (not really, of course). But I dusted of the archives and wandered way back to the beginning and found it... that little clock, seeming to tick away. Kind of reminded me of Rod Sterling and the twilight zone...
uM0p apsdn
Reply #13 Friday, March 5, 2004 1:02 AM
Reply #13 Friday, March 5, 2004 1:02 AM
Tick tock, tick tock, Please do not adjust your monitor....
uM0p apsdn
Reply #15 Friday, March 5, 2004 1:09 AM
Reply #15 Friday, March 5, 2004 1:09 AM
...the skinning zone.
Should allow the gif format for the smaller screenshots.
Should allow the gif format for the smaller screenshots.
goodmorphing
Reply #16 Friday, March 5, 2004 1:14 AM
Reply #16 Friday, March 5, 2004 1:14 AM
yeah... I like them, though for a weird reason. It gave some life to the archives.... kind of like little skin ghosties, haunting memories of skins used, and loved, and then discarded for newer things. They were a faithful replication of the ideas and craftsmanship of peeps long gone in some cases...
Would be nice to think some of our ghosties could still tick on like that....
Would be nice to think some of our ghosties could still tick on like that....
goodmorphing
Reply #18 Friday, March 5, 2004 1:31 AM
...hehe I like a little life in my archives, thats all.... 
Reply #18 Friday, March 5, 2004 1:31 AM
...hehe I like a little life in my archives, thats all.... 
CerebroJD
Reply #19 Friday, March 5, 2004 9:54 AM
Reply #19 Friday, March 5, 2004 9:54 AM
Yeah its better, but I still think that you should have your logo and site info overlayed on the actual screenshot. Maybe just have a white box in an empty area with all your stuff there.
DesignCaddy
Reply #20 Friday, March 5, 2004 10:59 AM
Reply #20 Friday, March 5, 2004 10:59 AM
animated jpegs... OooOoooOOOo i want in. 
eeeeer. well i suppose that would be a .mov file.
someday.. some day. everything will just be shockwave.
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eeeeer. well i suppose that would be a .mov file.
someday.. some day. everything will just be shockwave.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 11:28 AM