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# woo
i like that =)

Threadjack: can anyone give me a link to 'optimising animated gifs with the black lines through to reduce file size?' Thanks.
(I helped save b3ta! Craig with a Y last updated his profile at, Fri 17 Nov 2006, 12:07, archived)
# do it as a 140pixel wide gif
and then put width="280" in the img tag.

then you get no scanlines and a nice retro pixel effect.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Fri 17 Nov 2006, 12:10, archived)
# cheers, ill give that a go
(I helped save b3ta! Craig with a Y last updated his profile at, Fri 17 Nov 2006, 12:10, archived)
# When I've had to do it in the past
I've done it this way:

Open animation as layers in Tattyshop
Create new layer
Use horizontal line selection to fill a few alternate lines with black
Dupilcate this layer a few times
Move the lines around and merge the layers so that I have a complete screen of black lines
Duplicate this layer and merge with all animation layers
Profit
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 17 Nov 2006, 12:13, archived)
# to get the scan lines, dont just use black
select a dark colour that is already used in the image
then
just make a layer above all of the others that has a line drawn in that colour on every other row of pixels
(I helped save b3ta! swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Fri 17 Nov 2006, 12:14, archived)
# aha :)
thanks a lot :)

Thanks to everyone else as well. Much appriciated.
(I helped save b3ta! Craig with a Y last updated his profile at, Fri 17 Nov 2006, 12:18, archived)
#
www.tutorialfx.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 17 Nov 2006, 12:26, archived)
# Thanks
I thought it was something to do with the actual compression settings, never thought that u just add your own scanlines to cut down the number of coloured pixels.
(I helped save b3ta! Craig with a Y last updated his profile at, Fri 17 Nov 2006, 12:30, archived)
# There
is a tattyshop/PSP filter to instantly add scanlines to an image but sadly I no longer have it nor can I remember who made it. Simple thing to do is make a big scanline layer then save it as a PSD for future pasting of the layer.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 17 Nov 2006, 12:35, archived)