To Drum or not to Drum??

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Show off!
Love…Jill

[Steve Thurlow]

Show off?? petite moi??? non???? :lol1:

Steve xx

[Jill Marie Welsh]

wanker!!
j.

[Carrie Brown]

Steve, that looks great …… excellent!!!

Jill, I do like your black & white pic its very nice!!

I think me & steve need to get sorted with a new pic …. the one we have at the mo is quite old!!

[Steve Thurlow]

Thanks Carrie,

I’m not sure how long I can put up with me ‘banging away’,
It’s already starting to annoy ME 😳

I don’t think Jill appreciated me messin’ with her eyes, I’ll wait until she asks me ‘pretty please’ then I’ll remove it (mad)

(sorry jill :blush: )

Stevie :drums:

[Robert Lambie]

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

class mate… nice one 😛
had me laughing away to myself there…

i dont mind animated avatars at all… as long as the picture is of the person posting, i dont see any harm in it one bit.

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

still smiling while typing this up… nice one.. 😉 😛

[Nicola McIntosh]

brilliant stevie!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

what programme did you do that in!! 😛

nik

[Steve Thurlow]

Yo Nik,

Photoshop 7 to start with, then into Image Ready (part of PS 7, web graphics section)
I started with setting up my old Nikon coolpix 880 to take a ‘burst’ of 16 photos with half second intervals. This is a feature which is handy, it puts all 16 photos onto the size of 1 normal photo (in a tiled fashion) each little photo is quite small but ideal for making animated gifs, I then picked 6 of the best ‘drummy’ pics & pasted them to 6 seperate PhotoShop layers.
(sorry if this is a bit techy Nik, I’ve been using PS for 10 years & I’m still learning 🙄 )
After coming up with the 1st ani gif it was a bit big, 35k, so I cut down the frames to 3, made it smaller & reduced the colours from 32 to 16, now it’s about 18k
Thanks Nik, you inspired me to have a go after you made me smile with your ‘winking’ 😉 😉
Cheers,
Stevie

[Nicola McIntosh]

hi steve

thanks for reply, i used photoshop to touch up & resize jills photo, then used coral draw to make a movie in two bits, pretty easy peezy!!

nothing is too techy for me steve, i understand fully and i only have photoshop 6 and still learning, i had a lot of bother with my anim. gif getting it to the 20k size, it actually took me a whole afternoon!! drove me potty!! anyway it was my first attempt, hopefully there will be more!!

i think your’s is fab the resolution must be down to the nikon!! 😛 😛
i have a nikon slr which i won’t give away picture quality is just superb, but development tooooooooo slow!! 😀

Nik

[magpie]

Ok its not animated but it might give y’all a laugh, d’you like the weekend look?

[Steve Thurlow]

:yikes:

Outstanding Pete,

There’s something about that look…… Hmmmm…..

I know……

Ming the Merciless, in the old 30’s Flash Gordon movies!!

:thumbup2:

Good one mate,
Cheers, Stevie :drums:

[Nicola McIntosh]

pete you look more like that comedian bloke!! alistair macgowan!! (i think that’s his name) fab stuff!! 😛

Nik

[Steve Thurlow]

😮

Hey Nik !!!
I think you’ve started a new trend, wacky avatars 😉 😉

(thanks for the pm buddy) 😀

Cheers, Steve :drums:

[Nicola McIntosh]

no worries stevie!!

talking of drummers, ed used to drum for van morrison!! (years ago…)
now brad the young lad wants a drum kit for his christmas!! ye fair enough
but he got a bass guitar last year…… 🙄

Nik

[Steve Thurlow]

:yikes:
WOW Nik…… Van the Man!!!!! Fantastic,

Which era was this mate? …. Early days of ‘Them’, ‘Astral Weeks’?,
70s ‘Moondance’ days?…… 80s ‘Beautiful vision’ days?

Can you tell I’m a bit of a fan? I must admit I don’t like all of his stuff, the last album of his I bought was ‘Back on Top’ back in ’99 but the guy is so prolific, almost every year there’s a new Van Morrison album.

Thanks for sharing…. you’ve stired some memories, It’s 6.30am and I’ve now slammed ‘the best of Van’ on the CD player… ‘Gloria’ blasting through the shed!!!! :punk:

Cheers Nik,

S :drums:

[magpie]

Had to bow out on this one chaps, but I’ll be back in a couple of weeks with a new avatar,
complete with animated bits (hopefully). Love what you’ve been doing so keep it up and I’ll catch yous later.

Cheers Pete the pictureless