@RoyalAdnan
Well most animated signatures consist of a short clip of a video segment a user likes. The clip can be from a movie, music video, cartoon, etc. Ive done clips from Deadpool, Game of Thrones, etc. Sometimes I'm just given a theme and I try and find something approproate.
Lets say you have a fav movie and/or part. I grab the video, remove that part I need, shrink it down in size and number of frames. A GIF is just a small number of frames ( I try and keep them under 100), but I have done some around 400 frames, which is about all my Photoshop can handle with 36 GBs of RAM.
Once we have the clip we import it into PS as a movie, so we can play it while we are completing the other items we intend to add. I usually pick out something that enhances the main theme, posiyion it so the movie can still be seen, add a border and your name, and then fix the time rate, the length of time each frame is shown. This is critical to a GIF because it doesnt play at the same frame rate that the original movie it was taken from.
Also, file size is critical as well, because video can gobble up a lot of storage space. A signature needs to be small enough to fall under the maximum file size allowed by the file hosting sites. This can be the hardest part at times. I try and use the minimum number of high quality frames to get the job doan.
This might sound like a lot of work, but yrs of practice have made it pretty straight forward for me. Like tying your shoes. Its hard when you start, not so much when your 20.
I have a number of sites I use, but Imgur is my main site right now. Here's a tip....You can right click on any image in the forum and select copy image address and paste that somewhere to see a users host site for that image.
I hope that answers those questions Adnan. Let me know if you wish to move forward.
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