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Posted on 08/10/18 11:19:45 AM

tooquilos
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Re: Challenge 726: The fortune teller

GKB wrote:
http://vimeo.com/293800428

Haha I didn’t see that one coming Gordon..very funny!!

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Posted on 08/10/18 11:27:34 AM

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A year so ago I was in my local silversmith trying to buy a present. Their computer system was down for some reason they couldn’t understand. I had a quick look at it and told them that Microsoft was doing an automatic update and the system would remain down for as long as it took.

I suggested that they disable the automatic update asap. It took a lot of their working day to get the system back.

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Posted on 08/10/18 1:57:52 PM

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Re: Challenge 726: The fortune teller

josephine harvatt wrote:
Condolences lwc, microsoft and their updates are a nightmare not least because every time things go wrong I can hear the sniggers of a thousand mac users in my mind

Thanks Josephine... let 'em "snigger", they have their own issues to deal with.

It appears that Microsoft's latest update was mainly for syncing smart phones and PC data... that's something I don't need. I still refuse to update from my ten-year old flip-phone, it does everything that I require from a 'telephone'!

Posted on 08/10/18 2:28:23 PM

josephine harvatt
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With you there lwc!

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Posted on 08/10/18 4:53:53 PM

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Hoeraaaaaaa! Steve is jarig vandaag.
Gefeliciteerd en nog vele jaren in gezondheid!!!

Posted on 09/10/18 03:33:53 AM

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Well, hello again Sjef. I thought you had gone forever.
And, yes, Happy Birthday Steve, and good fortune!

Posted on 09/10/18 03:39:27 AM

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Posted on 09/10/18 1:24:39 PM

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My first ever (and possibly last ever) animated GIF

It seems it is your birthday Steve ....... so happy birthday.

Never tried a GIF before. Had to learn from scratch. Lot of work for such a silly end result!

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Posted on 09/10/18 2:24:46 PM

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Posted on 09/10/18 2:59:58 PM

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My first ever (and possibly last ever) animated GIF

DavidMac wrote:
It seems it is your birthday Steve ....... so happy birthday.

Never tried a GIF before. Had to learn from scratch. Lot of work for such a silly end result!

A silly end result often makes it all worthwhile... I think it's great!

Be careful though, make a coule more animated gifs and you could get hooked!

I'm curious: Does your browser allow some of the frames to run at 0/100 sec., or does it default to 10/100? If you're on a Mac, do you use Safari?

Posted on 09/10/18 3:44:21 PM

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My first ever (and possibly last ever) animated GIF

lwc wrote:
I'm curious: Does your browser allow some of the frames to run at 0/100 sec., or does it default to 10/100? If you're on a Mac, do you use Safari?

Umm ........ er ........... can I phone a friend?

Yes. Safari.

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Posted on 09/10/18 4:51:00 PM

lwc
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Re: Challenge 726: The fortune teller

It's somewhat of a trivia question.

I guess my question should have been: Does your animation run at the speed you thought it would after being posted?

Gifs are browser dependent. Different browsers can run gifs at different speeds depending on the original gif frame speed settings.

I checked your gif and of the 24 frames all but two were timed at 0/100 sec. The "face up" at 300/100 and the "face down" timed at 300/100 sec. Internet Explorer and Safari both support down to 6/100 per sec., any frames set slower than that are rounded up to 10/100 sec., which is the case with your gif. Which could make the animation appear to run slower than intended.

Chrome, Firefox and Opera will support down to 2/100 sec., but anything slower will default to 10/100 sec.

Posted on 09/10/18 5:19:36 PM

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I did this empirically by trial and error without knowing anything about it. It was done completely in photoshop CS6 X as a frame animation. The frames are set by default to 0.03 secs each - I left them at that. The two static head positions I set to 3 seconds each. How this is interpreted in the final GIF I don't know. I had no idea it might play differently in different browsers. Since I tested in Safari locally before uploading it played in Safari on line as I expected.

Just checked in Chrome. Plays same speed.

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Posted on 09/10/18 5:48:12 PM

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Re: Challenge 726: The fortune teller

It defaulted to 10/100 in Chrome too... interesting, perhaps Chrome has made some changes to their browser or... since my dedicated gif editor shows your frame speeds to be at 0/100, that may be what Chrome is seeing and could explain the default to 10/100.

Nothing wrong with defaulting to 10/100 as long as that's what you expected. I make a few gifs at 10 fps (usually to keep file sizes to a minimum), but most of them are at 15 fps (6/100) or some combination of speeds to get a specific effect.

Posted on 11/10/18 07:48:55 AM

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http://vimeo.com/294299933

Thats excellent David. Now that you have gotten a taste of it..don’t stop!!

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Posted on 11/10/18 09:11:06 AM

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tooquilos wrote:
Thats excellent David. Now that you have gotten a taste of it..don’t stop!!

Thank you. We shall see. So much work and at present not so much time.

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Posted on 11/10/18 12:39:45 PM

josephine harvatt
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Lol Anna - I thought that crystal ball looked familiar - Love the colour palette and the tent set up and the shop - all of it basically

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Posted on 11/10/18 1:08:54 PM

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