Stephanopoulos seeks advice for Obama from Old Spice Guy. Plus a discussion on gender/advertising.

[ladypolitik]

On Twitter, @ GeorgeStephanopoulos wrote:"@OldSpice Hey Old Spice Man -- Political question: President's lost some female support. How does WH get those women voters back?
Answer:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Bli13rO9A&

Context: Old Spice has engaged in a two-day viral

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[ladypolitik]

[owl_eyes_4ever]

[ladypolitik]

Oh boy, it's a little complicated, and Ive been telling myself to make a comprehensive tutorial for like a year. LOL. I should get started on that now that Im on "vay-cay".

Here's a very basic run through of how I get my gifs:

• I save choice youtube vids with aTube Catcher, usually with a .mov file output (because it works best when making gifs from Photoshop).
• I fire up Adobe Photoshop and select File > Import> Video Frames Layer, which lets you extract gif frames from a video.
• I save my gif in Photoshop then open it in Adobe Fireworks, where I apply text/borders for the final lulzy version. It all comes down to using layers at that point, which is where it gets complicated and would really require a tutorial with visual screen shots and everything. Haha. I WILL get started on that.

[owl_eyes_4ever]

[ladypolitik]

Awesome! And I really, REALLY will try to expand on a better guide. :D

[keeperofthekeys]

Oh, hey, boo. Fireworks doesn't come with CS2 :( :(

[lafinjack]

But CS2 does have ImageReady.

[papilio_luna]

Oh man. I have Photoshop and Fireworks and I'm a giant huge fandom dweeb. Please please let us know if you make a tutorial. I would be UNSTOPPABLE.

[ladypolitik]

YOU GOT IT. :D

[akuma_river]

I do my work in InDesign and last year I had to get it and Photoshop and there was a good sale on the Adobe CS4 Design Prenium (typically $1,500 but I got it for about $500 because CS5 was coming out, the recession was on going and CS4 wasn't selling well, and I got the student discount version). So far though, I've only used InDesign. lol.

I bought the InDesign and Photoshop Adobe Classroom in a Book books and it's gone into layers for InDesign but I think the fireworks one is a bit different. I really need to play with all the programs but it saps sooo much of my ram.

Have you played with InDesign do you know if Fireworks is harder or about the same on the layers?

[ladypolitik]

Oh wow, Ive never in *heard* of InDesign before now to be honest.

I can tell you that Fireworks is a markedly different feel from Photoshop, even while they are both owned by Adobe (though I gather that's because Fireworks was owned by Macromedia before being bought out by Adobe; hence the completely different user interface). There isnt the kind of program compatibility between Photoshop/Fireworks like there used to be between Photoshop/ImageReady.

In fact, Fireworks is so different that the only image editing I primarily do in it is optimizing animations (frame speeds, dithering, dimensions, size, etc) and slapping on text/border layers when I make animated macros/animated icons. Ive never felt satisfied with, for example, the final results of layer adjustment effects, or the masking effects, or even something as simply as transforming an object. Everything feels primitive/"clunkier" in Fireworks than in Photoshop.

So in the end, I use Photoshop to design static images and Fireworks to design animated images -- basically, using them according to their respective strengths (as I see them, anyway; still learning how to use both), hah.

[redstar826]

<3 <3 <3

[keeni84]

He is so handsome! Like, old school handsome!

[ladypolitik]

IFKR.

[keeni84]

Me and my sis were talking about it. I mean, there's no bells and whistles about him---he just has straight-forward good looks.

[ladypolitik]

In all seriousness, absolutely. It's really, *really*, refreshing.