No more updates

Yes, I don't think I will be updating my blog for couple of months. I am not sure why but I don't feel like updating in the coming months, so I thought of telling you this in advance.

[+] I won first place at the Oman3D iPod Competition, and I personally would like to thank every person who took the time and consideration to participate in the voting session thread; truly appreciated. One of the administrators at O3D has already announced me as the winner on this thread (Click Here).

Best wishes to y'all.

O3D iPod Competition - Voting Session.

I participated at O3D iPod Competition, and now it's a voting session. The entries seem challenging and the voting is opened for registered members. You can register and vote for the best design in this thread (click here). My work is #1 in the poll list, named as Abdullah Al-Adawi (click here to see my design). I made that quickly but I hope I can get your vote.

Thanks!


UPDATE: I just wanted to clarify that I didn't ask anyone to vote for my work in particular. My above post is very clear stating to vote for the best design and at the end I kindly hope to have your vote, not to vote for my work compulsorily. I'm very irritated that some people think I am cheating by posting this thread on my blog or asking some forums' buddies to participate voting on that poll. I didn't ask anyone to vote for my design, I simply asked to vote for the best design because I don't don't give a damn about winning the prize, 'cause I'm not into iPod's anyway. All what I wanted is to have more people to vote on that poll, it worth having more people helping to vote and make the voting session more competitive between the three entries. P.S.: I asked the administration team whether or not if it's possible to ask other people to participate voting on that poll and the answer was positive; it's possible. Whoever think that I am trying to push people to vote for me, please cut the crap!

Thanks to every person who voted for my entry, I truly appreciate the time and considerations.

I think I need to make a good use of my blog for my visitors. Here's something to make y'all get busy with me here. I present t, my first ImageReady Basic Tutorial that I submitted to the famous forum, OMAN3D. I will be going easy on you and I hope you will fully understand each step.

Here's something expected from you to outcome from this tutorial.

First make your pizza next to you and get started by then,

1- When you have your desired design done one Photoshop, go to the Tools bar and click on Edit in ImageReady (or click Shift+Ctrl+M)

2-Now you have a similar interface as the one for Photoshop. The Animation bar should appear by default, if not press F11 or simply go to Windows and tick on Animation.

3- Select your desired layer(s). For the sake of this tutorial, I chose the Text layer.

4-Go to the animation bar and duplicate the current frame. Then, go to the Text layer and change the Opacity to 80%.

5-Keep repeating step 4 but with different descending numbers (by 20% in each layer in this tutorial). Once you reach 20% Opacity, make the next frame's Text layer to be 10% instead of 0%. After that, use ascending numbers and stop at 80%. ( because the Text layer in frame 1 is 100%)

6-Now you're almost done and you can play your Animation.

7-If you're not happy with the animation frame time you can always change each frame's timing by clicking under the frame display layer. In my final image, I made the delay on each frame to 0.1 second.

8-Save your animation by going to File, Save Optimized As ( Shift+Ctrl+Alt+S) and choose your destination to save. Make sure that the format is of type GIF.

End of the Tutorial.

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Please if there is anything that is not clear, then point it out. P.S: show me your work please :D

Enjoy ^_^