Rayne Lovers and Haters
POSTED BY: crystalkei
UPDATED: Sunday, June 14, 2009 16:41
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Very cool indeed! May I ask how you did it?
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First of all, I did this with Jasc Paint Shop Pro.
I copied your sig pic, croped River's face*, and resized it (50x50 pixels, I think).
Then I surfed the web for a leopard print pic, downloaded it, croped part of it and resized that (60x60 pixels) so the spots wouldn't get miniscule. That was my background.
Then I copied and pasted the River pic on the leopard print, and used the soften option on the retouch operation around the edges.
Voila! There you have it!
If you want more details, let me know. I'm just trying to keep it simplified for you non-geek type people 
*Crop is when you cut out part of a pic, for those none-grapic-geek people
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Days to remember:
June 23- Browncoat Day!
Sept. 19- Talk Like A Pirate Day
Sept. 20- Captian Mal's birthday
"The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds, given adequate vaccuuming systems." -River
"It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think -River
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Pretty! Me, I'm more of a photoshop guy. For some reason it had never occured to me that I could use it to create shiny new avatars... Call it a brain blockage or whatever. I guess I ought to give it a shot!
I just can't abide Rayne. Or River/anybody. Or Jayne/anybody. That just doesn't make sense. And I don't think Joss ment for his wonderful creation to end up as a love-boat with a slightly different setting that other love-boats. Joss didn't do that in the show, or the movie, so why do you people assume that it would have happened? ----Riverflan
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So I did give it a shot, and here's what came out of it. What do you think? I had a case of spookiness 
EDIT: Did I mention I like big pictures?
EDIT#2: This avatar's too big though.
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I like it! You are right, it's a bit too big, but surely you have a re-size option somewhere? for no apparent reason
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Days to remember:
June 23- Browncoat Day!
Sept. 19- Talk Like A Pirate Day
Sept. 20- Captian Mal's birthday
"The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds, given adequate vaccuuming systems." -River
"It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think -River
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I have a shiny new sig now! Made it myself, I did. If anyone want to know how, just say so and I'll tell
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My favorite quotes: 
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I abso-friggin-lutely want to know how you did that!
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That's a really cool pic, Wytchcroft! You mind if I steal it?
Now to answer Mobbex's question:
Just so you know, I did this on Jasc Animation Shop and on Jasc Paint Shop Pro (they're cousin programs ).
First, I had to make the pics. So I took part of the background in this pic I found online (I mainly use Google Images)
croped it, and resized it so it was a nice, even number (because I'm weird like that). That forms the background.
Next, I took the Serenity logo, copied+pasted it onto the background as a seperate layer, and erased around the edges.
Then I saved that, then started filling in that empty space with my favorite quotes.
I saved them all, then copied+pasted them into frames in a new animation shop file. Then I added a "fade" transition to each and every frame, and adjusted the amout of time you see certain frames so you could read the longer quotes.
Then I saved the whole animation, added it to my Photobucket account so it would show up.
Took me a while, but I finally got it done
I'd show more example pics, but I deleted them all, and I wouldn't get them exactly right the second time.
Why I didn't make a slideshow is because they only let you have ten pics, and I had 27 quotes 
BTW, how did this thread get diverted from rayne to grapics? Just wondering (and if it's my fault, blame it on one of my other selves! lol )
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My favorite quotes:
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Probably my fault to be truthful. I started it all with my sig request 
I wonder if there's an Adobe equivalent to Jasc Animation Shop. I'm gonna go and do some research on that. Thx for the detailed reply !
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