Troublemaker
12-23-2016, 04:23 AM
I will be making 3 posts in this thread. The first post (this one) will be to repeat the caveats I wrote in the Phase II thread.
The second post will be the short instructions on how to make GIFs. For the vast majority of you, these instructions will suffice, and you'll be off and running.
The third post will be lengthier instructions with some screenshots for those that might be less technologically inclined. I probably won't get around to writing this one until tomorrow. And if it doesn't happen by tomorrow, it won't happen until after Christmas. (And if somebody beats me to it, I won't terribly mind! I'm looking for a post that your beloved elderly parent or grandparent that's not great with computers can use.)
So first, the caveats:
kAzE provides the final question of Phase II:
How do you make GIFs?
This is the final question, and I'm going to answer it in a separate post. Two major caveats right off the bat:
(1) Do not ruin the forum experience for everyone by creating gigantic GIFs. You can see a fledgling giffer's first attempt at transformation in this post of mine. (http://forums.dukebasketballreport.com/forums/showthread.php?38814-MBB-Kansas-77-Duke-75-Post-Game-Thread&p=925889#post925889) Look how slow that GIF loads. So clunky. (Note: the only reason it might load fast is if you had loaded it before and it's still cached in your browser.) Now it IS higher resolution/quality than the GIFs I've been posting recently, but we always trade resolution for loading speed, especially if there are going to be several of us posting GIFs. I'm going to teach how to make low-res GIFs.
(2) I am an Old Guy making GIFs. I am by no means an expert. There is probably some 14-yr-old King or Queen of Tumblr reading this board who will laugh at how stupid my instructions are, and they might be able to suggest a much better way of doing things. If so, by all means, please do chime in and teach this Old Guy some new tricks.
That linked example GIF of Chase's blocked shot, when downloaded to a computer, is 11 megabytes big.
In my next post, I will show how to make GIFs that are < 4 megabytes when downloaded to a computer. That's the size we should be aiming for.
The second post will be the short instructions on how to make GIFs. For the vast majority of you, these instructions will suffice, and you'll be off and running.
The third post will be lengthier instructions with some screenshots for those that might be less technologically inclined. I probably won't get around to writing this one until tomorrow. And if it doesn't happen by tomorrow, it won't happen until after Christmas. (And if somebody beats me to it, I won't terribly mind! I'm looking for a post that your beloved elderly parent or grandparent that's not great with computers can use.)
So first, the caveats:
kAzE provides the final question of Phase II:
How do you make GIFs?
This is the final question, and I'm going to answer it in a separate post. Two major caveats right off the bat:
(1) Do not ruin the forum experience for everyone by creating gigantic GIFs. You can see a fledgling giffer's first attempt at transformation in this post of mine. (http://forums.dukebasketballreport.com/forums/showthread.php?38814-MBB-Kansas-77-Duke-75-Post-Game-Thread&p=925889#post925889) Look how slow that GIF loads. So clunky. (Note: the only reason it might load fast is if you had loaded it before and it's still cached in your browser.) Now it IS higher resolution/quality than the GIFs I've been posting recently, but we always trade resolution for loading speed, especially if there are going to be several of us posting GIFs. I'm going to teach how to make low-res GIFs.
(2) I am an Old Guy making GIFs. I am by no means an expert. There is probably some 14-yr-old King or Queen of Tumblr reading this board who will laugh at how stupid my instructions are, and they might be able to suggest a much better way of doing things. If so, by all means, please do chime in and teach this Old Guy some new tricks.
That linked example GIF of Chase's blocked shot, when downloaded to a computer, is 11 megabytes big.
In my next post, I will show how to make GIFs that are < 4 megabytes when downloaded to a computer. That's the size we should be aiming for.