Tutorials and Icon help

[Eli]

Threads merged, please put all tutorial-related stuff in here.

[Jen]

I hope some one can help me. Not strickly a tutorial but if you have a series of icons, how do you put them together so they run one after the other? So it's kind of animated, but not. Hope that makes sense...

[Cal]

I think Imageready is the best for that. If you have it, there is a tutorial already on it.

[~Angel~]

How do you flatten an image?

[.Cat.]

(With Photoshop), Go to Layer > Flatten

[~Angel~]

Thanks

[iloverobbie]

(With Photoshop), Go to Layer > Flatten

The shortcut of doing it is ctrl+shift+e it helps when you have to make a lot of images.

[~Angel~]

As requested by Kirst

Animation:

1. Prepare your bases, crop etc:

2. Move all the bases on top of one:

3. Once you have an avatar with all the pictures on top close the others and click this:

4. Once your in Adobe image ready open your animation window:

5. Now heres where it gets tricky, multiply the base in the animation window, multiply it by how many pictures there are :

So if you have 5 different pictures on top of one another then multiply it 4 times because there is an original

6. This is hard to describe but click on the first picture in your animation bar, on the right make sure only one picture can be seen

So click a picture:

and then the pictures being shown:

Click another picture and:

And so on:

7. Decide the duration of each picture (how long it can be seen before it moves on)

Click where it says 0 secs:

And pick:

Sorry for the bad explanation but ask questions if you have problems or get confused, I would love to see results but remember put under link!

I don't get how to get the different pictures on the timeline.... Because only 1 picture will come up 4 times... :S

Please help if you can

[Zetti]

Where do all the textures come from?

[Jayde]

I usually download packs from LJs and stuff, or make them myself, which I haven't been quite so successful with, but still. It's fun

Does anybody have any tips or tutorial on brightening images, but so they still look natural? I've been experimenting a little but I can't seem to get it quite right.