![]() Click on the Edit in Photoshop button which automatically opens your frames in Photoshop and then on the bottom of your layers palette, click on the little black and white circle. If it isn't, go to Edit - Undo Crop and do it again.Ĥ.The next step involves improving the animation's colouring and to do this I use adjustment layers. Press the play button again to check all the detail you want is still there. Next, using the Crop Tool, select the area you want to crop and then go to Image - Crop. It's up to you though what size you want your overall animation to be.įirstly, in the crop window, enter the size you want to crop to and make sure that 'Fixed Size' is ticked. I find the smaller you crop, the more frames will fit under LJ's 40kb icon limit and I tend to select either 70x45 or 60x50. ![]() Now you need to crop the frames to whatever size you want. Pressing the 'play arrow' on the window will then play you the ‘mini movie’ from your screencaps so you can check how it looks and if it's working.ģ. You should find that ImageReady has opened the caps onto the screen and you should be able to see them in the animation window. Select the folder where you saved your screencaps and then click on OK. Open up ImageReady and select File - Import - Folder as Frames. Make sure all your screencaps are saved in one folder.īefore we start, here's a general screencap of ImageReady for anyone unfamiliar with it:Ģ. The more screencaps you make, the larger the finished file size is going to be so try and have as few caps as possible. You should now find all your screencaps in the folder you selected in Step 3 and now you can import them into ImageReady, ready to start making your mini movie icon. The program will start capping the scene and as soon as you've arrived at the point you want it to stop capping, hit the Pause button on first the player and then on the pop-up box.ĥ. Press Start on the Capture box and then press Play on the actual player so that the clip starts playing. In the screenshot below you'll see the settings I use which I actually found in This Tutorial and I find they work fine for what I want to do.Ĥ. A pop-up box will come up and in that you can enter your preferred settings as well as selecting the folder you want your caps to be saved in. If so, look for Advanced Capture and select that instead.)ģ. ( Note: If you've got an older version of the program, you might not find Extract listed. ![]() From the Menu, select Capture and then Extract. Hit the Pause button and then right-click to bring up the Menu.Ģ. Open up your video clip and then drag the slider along to the point you want to screencap from. I'm not going to go through the capping process but if anyone wants help with that, please feel free to comment.Īs requested, here's a short tutorial on how to cap using KMPlayer:ġ. I tend to use KMPlayer as it plays and caps practically all formats, including DVD's. There are a variety of programs you can use for this: KMPlayer, PowerDVD, VirtualDub, Windows Movie Maker. Firstly, you need to make screencaps of the scene you want to icon. Okay, we're going to be making the following icon using Photoshop 7 / ImageReady 7:ġ. I'm sure there are easier, simpler ways of making mini movie icons but this is how I've been making them for a while now and it's what I'm comfortable with. I've been asked a few times now to write up a tutorial for how I make my animated icons and I've finally done it.
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