Cats, Headers, and ....zomg animated icons

[sun_star_n_moon]

18 Cat Icons
26 Headers (Many of them Autumn themed)
31 Matching Icons to go with said Headers (6 are animated!)

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Comments

[hotpick]

Love your icons! :) Snagging 1,6, 10, 13 and 16 of the cat icons. So cute! :) #10 could be our cat. lol Will credit when I use. Thank you!

[sun_star_n_moon]

Thank you so much for the lovely comment!

[grey853]

You did a really good job with the kitty and fall icons, especially the animated ones. Well done.

[sun_star_n_moon]

Thank you!
=D

[sarcasm_is_free]

Wow the nature ones are just gorgeous. Taking a few, and bookmarking. Will credit.

[sun_star_n_moon]

Thanks!

[brotherskeeper1]

I saved userpic 1 and the second banner with the verse. Also userpic 26 and matching banner. They're beautiful.

What program are you using for animation, please? I can animate snow with no problem, but not rain without going over 40kb. I have Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Fireworks CS3.

Thank you :)

BTW, achieving any animation is a +++ ... it make you feel good doesn't it?

[sun_star_n_moon]

Yes, Im now determined to make almost everything animated! I've always wanted to do animated icons!

Well, lets see if I can explain how I did the rain effect in a way that makes sense....

First I made long rain-like texture and then I set that over my base in a semi-transparent mode. Since the texture was far larger than the icon base, I then dragged the texture through the base and saved it at various intervals.

So now I have several rain bases that look almost alike (but the rain is in different places on it). I then opened it up in gimp, and set all the bases as layers and then saved it as a gif animation.

It works alright under the 40 kb limit as long as you dont go over 5 frames (sometimes more or less depending on the base)

Actaully, I did all the animations in a similar fashion in gimp. (except #16)

[brotherskeeper1]

Thank you for the information; I'm going to print it off for reference. I can't believe you got such excellent results in Gimp.

I'm off to put the September banner on my profile page. Thanks again :)

[sun_star_n_moon]

"I can't believe you got such excellent results in Gimp."

It took several tries a much experimenting before I got it to the point where it looked decent.

I actually dont like gimp all that much. I make all my icons in a program called photostudio by arcsoft (a free program that came with my printer). photostudio may not do much snazzy stuff, but I love it and can make it work for me. So all the bases I made for the rain affect, were actually made in photostudio, and then I just used gimp to turn them into an animation.

anyways...thanks for the lovely comments!

[winged_embrace]

I like kitty #8, thanks!

[sun_star_n_moon]

you're welcome!

:3