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Bit Blot => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Chibi on December 15, 2008, 05:26:42 am
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As new topics seem to be growing very casual
(ChimeraThing), I figured I would take this chance to ask a question. Should I keep my forum name as Chibi, or should I change it to Sibilante? Very mundane question, but advice is appreciated! ;D
[EDIT]: Just joking with you Chimera. :)
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I feel akward now, but go with whatever you want Sibilante sounds cool.
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How about Chibilante? 8)
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Thanks Derek! Sounds like a capital idea. :)
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Who are you? What have you done to Chibi! >:D
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Chibi's back. ;D I eventually decided against it.
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Good, because there was nothing wrong with Chibi in the first place! :P
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Ouch. This was a little pointless, wasn't it. Sorry for wasting your time guys! :-[ :) I'll stick with a short and sweet name.
Changed it back - I like its brevity and simplicity too much. :)
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It doesn't hurt to experiment :)
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It doesn't hurt to experiment :)
Well.... sometimes....
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It doesn't hurt to experiment :)
Well.... sometimes....
Yes true, please don't dip your fingers into hydrochloric acid it's an experiment that will have disasterous results for your fingers....... :D
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I like Chibilante. But it was your choice.
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Haha! Welcome back, Glamador! :D Check in here. (http://www.bit-blot.com/forum/index.php?topic=1443.15) I wrote a message checking you out. :)
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Chibidafu - So I can now say I Chibi da FOO :P
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Not entirely ontopic, but it has to do with Chibi and Change, just the name is replaced with signature-pic. ;)
Chibi, can you please make the BG of the gif transparent? It annoys me to see this cube going from one side to the other...
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The background annoys me too - if you could tell me how, I'd gladly change it. :)
[EDIT]: I use Gimp 2, not Photoshop.
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You can use GIMP's eraser to make pixels transparent, but you'll have to go through each frame/layer individually. Also, GIFs' pixels can only be opaque or completely transparent, so on forums without a dark background, you'll end up with a chunky outline. I can give you more details if you want to do it this way. There are some other ways I can think of, but they all require more effort in the end, unless you can get in touch with the person who made it.
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When you use the eraser, is there some way of selecting the entire background so that you don't erase the figure?
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I'm not sure about Gimp 2, but if it's like other advanced img editing tools you should be able to select the entire background (but not the character) with some magic wand equivalent, and then just hit delete.
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Edit: Just see the bottom of the post. ;)
Ah, that's right!
You can use the magic wand to select the background, dragging left and right to adjust the threshold. If you watch the threshold value in the toolbox as you're doing that, you can see what value is reasonable so you can set it and then just click the background of the rest of the frames. A threshold of 30 seems good for the first frame.
Hitting delete now will probably leave you with blueish borders around the character, so if you want to put more effort into it, do the following: right-click the picture and go to the "select" menu, then click the dotted line at the top to detach it for the sake of convenience. In that detached menu, click "save to channel" to save the selection. In the "layers, channels, [etc]" panel, click the tab at the top with the stack of white squares (the layers tab; ctrl+L also gets you there), and click the layer you were working on. Then click "grow..." in the detached selection menu, and make sure it's growing the selection by 1 pixel. Then use the paint can/bucket fill with the threshold set to 255 to fill in the resulting selection. Next, click the tab with the stack of red, green, and blue squares next to the white ones you clicked before, and click the selection mask that you recently created. Click the red square at the bottom there, or right-click the channel and select "channel to selection". One last time, go back to the layers tab and click the layer you were working on, and finally, hit delete. Next layer!
Once you're done, save the file as a gif file using "save as". Choose "save as animation" when it asks how to export. Then check the three boxes at the bottom: "loop forever", "use delay entered above for all frames", and "use disposal entered above for all frames". Then before you click "save", make sure the delay is 100ms (or whatever; 100 seems to work for this one), and the disposal option is "one frame per layer (replace)". All done!
There's probably a quicker way to do all that, but yeah.
Ah, heck, I did half the work while writing this, so I just went ahead and finished the job and did a little touch-up. Here you go:
(http://pjdeca.people.wm.edu/civ_med02_edit.gif)
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Erf... Particlese already did it.
Posting it anyway.
Sort of fixed...
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Alphasoldier/civ_med04.gif)
The gif file can have transparencies, but only pixelated ones, as so every pixel that had a slightest transparency has a white base below it, and thus making the white outline.
As so, I made one with the default forum background colour, still letting it have a square around it, but not being noticeable, seeing it's the same colour and all.
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Alphasoldier/civ_med.gif)
Be sure to save it, I'll be removing it off my photobucket soon.
EDIT: I saw that the gif gave some dithering with the square box, instead I just gave the area around the moving part the background colour.
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Alphasoldier/CivMed.gif)
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I just noticed I missed a light bit on her shoe, so I fixed it.
So many choices! :D
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Thanks guys! That's a definite improvement on the original. :D You two are great...
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Thanks :)