Tagging Tutorial

[Dale]

I have seen some people around MSP asking how to tag glitters and layouts. Thought I'd prepare a handy tutorial.

01. Tagging Glitters in Animation Shop

01. Open PSP, create a new image with a WHITE background.
02. Find a nice pixel font, you can find cool ones on www.dafont.com
03. Click the text tool, make sure, in the very left corner in the dropdown, select "Floating".
04. Write in a site name/link. Then click "Apply".
05. Go to "Selections", then "Modify", then "Expand'.
06. A popup will come up, click "OK". Then, enter "1" in the "Number of Pixels:" thing.
07. Press CTRL+C, then go to Animation Shop, and press CTRL+V.
08. Load the glitter[s] you are tagging, and go back to the "tag" and press CTRL+C again.
09. Go to "EDIT" then "Propagate Paste".
10. Go back to your glitter, and press CTRL+A, then CTRL+E. Move the tag to where you want it to show.
11. Press the little button, in the top right corner that looks like a little movie clip. You'll see the animation play with the tag on. If you like it, go to "FILE" then "SAVE AS" or press CTRL+S to save over the original copy [not recommended if you want to keep the glitter untagged and don't have another copy made]

02. Tagging Glitters in ImageReady
There are different ways, and since I don't really use ImageReady to tag glitters much, I only know 1 way.

01. Open your glitter up.
02. Make sure the FIRST frame of the glitter is selected, and use the type tool to put in the site name/link.
03. You can view your animation and check it over a few times, then save.

03. Tagging layouts in PSP

01. Most layouts are composed of 4 parts: a background, contact table, extended network banner, and sometimes, a thumbnail. Go to "FILE", "OPEN". Then go to the file where the layout images are stored. Press "CTRL+A" then click "OPEN". This will open all images at one, and usually makes things easier.
02. Use the text tool and write the site name/link on a nice part of the image [by nice, i mean a spot where it doesn't overcrowd the image, but still makes it hard for people to steal the image].
03. Most people blend the colors so they kind of go with the look of the layout. Right-click on the text, and go to "PROPERTIES" and then mess with the colors.
04. SAVE!

04. Tagging Layouts in Photoshop

01. Most layouts are composed of 4 parts: a background, contact table, extended network banner, and sometimes, a thumbnail. Go to "FILE", "OPEN". Then go to the file where the layout images are stored. Press "CTRL+A" then click "OPEN". This will open all images at one, and usually makes things easier.
02. Use the text tool to enter a sites name/link. Mess with the colors to get it to kind of blend with the image[s].
03. Go to the bottom where it has the layers, make sure the right layer is selected, and then press the icon that has an "F" on it. That's the Blending Options. You can add stroke, etc. here.
04. SAVE!

Hope this helps, if you need anymore help with information on tagging, just shoot me a PM. I'll be glad to help. thanks for reading :clap:

By the way, everyone has a different way of tagging, so if you learned a different way, that's fine. This is just the way I tag my stuff :)

[Edwin]

Thanx alot for this dale :) really helps

[Dale]

Glad to help. This tutorial took me FOREVER to type ROFL

[Dale]

By the way, noone steal my tagging jobs ROFL I love them ;) jk jk. :P

I made this tutorial because alot of people don't know how to tag themselves, and have to pay to get someone to do it for them. So consider this me helping you :) ;)

[Edwin]

haha i bet it did take forever to type ROFL

[Dale]

haha i bet it did take forever to type

yeah, you got that right. i love helping people out here as much as i can, so it's no big. :P

[Edwin]

yeah, you got that right. i love helping people out here as much as i can, so it's no big. :P

Yeah i can tell, thats really nice of you. :)

[Selena]

Actually a much easier way to do the glitters in animation shop

paste your tag into AS, then copy the frame until you get your desired amount of frames (as many as your glitter has). then press ctrl+a and ctrl+c

then open your glitters, press ctrl+a, ctrl+e, then ctrl+s (to save) and then you're done.

[Dale]

thanks Selena. Yeah, that's the shorter version for everyone ;) :)

[offthedome]

Best thread I've seen in a week!! Some green sent.

[Dale]

Gee, thanks Juan ;)

[treacle]

Thanks very much for this Dale.

Could mods consider having a tutorials section? I see we have this tutorial and also another on creating glitters. It would be useful to have a series of tutorials on image blending, creating blinkies etc....

[Dale]

Thanks very much for this Dale.

Could mods consider having a tutorials section? I see we have this tutorial and also another on creating glitters. It would be useful to have a series of tutorials on image blending, creating blinkies etc....

You're welcome Tracie ;) Glad to help.

Yeah, a "Tutorials" section would be VERY helpful. People are always posting tutorials and tips, then the posts disappear because everyones constantly posting, so many people can't find the helpful threads :)

[Precious]

Thanks very much for this Dale.

Could mods consider having a tutorials section? I see we have this tutorial and also another on creating glitters. It would be useful to have a series of tutorials on image blending, creating blinkies etc....

That is something that would have to be discussed with Greg. We are limited on what we can do :) It does sound like a good idea, though.

[Dale]

That is something that would have to be discussed with Greg. We are limited on what we can do It does sound like a good idea, though.

Oh gosh, I feel like a complete tard ROFL yeah, maybe we should have someone ask Greg about this. Like maybe a "Tutorials and Help" forum or something in the Designers Corner :P

[WhosThatGirl]

Just learned a cool new tip for tagging in imagready. You can create an action telling the program to place the tag in a certin place. You can then turn this action into a droplet and tag them all at once by dragging and dropping the files. I tagged 3000 glitters the other day in just about 2 hours, while watching a movie/stopping often cause I was distracted. This only works if you don't mind the tag being placed in the exact same location each time, which with these glitters, I didn't.

[offthedome]

Just learned a cool new tip for tagging in imagready. You can create an action telling the program to place the tag in a certin place. You can then turn this action into a droplet and tag them all at once by dragging and dropping the files. I tagged 3000 glitters the other day in just about 2 hours, while watching a movie/stopping often cause I was distracted. This only works if you don't mind the tag being placed in the exact same location each time, which with these glitters, I didn't.
I had a method too, using actions. But it seems automating the tagging of animated gifs with imageready is much harder than tagging jpgs with photoshop, and in particular required manual effort on each image.

I'll post my way animated gif way some time this weekend when (if?) I get the chance. Can you post yours also, so that we give people options?

[Dale]

Thanks you guys! I'll ask a mod to update the original post with the tips. Rep to both of you :)


@ Juan, go ahead and post when you get the chance. It's up to you though :)

[nasser]

so there is no program that will tag glitter automatic for you, like some program could for static image

[Dale]

so there is no program that will tag glitter automatic for you, like some program could for static image

I dont know exactly. I've always tagged with Animation Shop and it's pretty fast. I can now tag 700 glitters in 40 minutes :P The thing they said about ImageReady is pretty automatic, you have to mess with the tag, etc. though. But it'll tag in the same spot on each glitter.

[johnamazing]

hhaa thanks dale :]
your awesome

[candysplash]

Thanks for this.

yeah, you got that right. i love helping people out here as much as i can, so it's no big.

Sweet guy.

[Dale]

thanks candysplash :)

[wce]

good job Dale! :) does that mean you tag layouts and since you're quick with stuff, you don't happen to do layout thumbnailing do ya? :)

[Dale]

ill PM you wce :P

[Dale]

I can't edit my post but;

I recommend using PF Ronda Seven for tagging. It's the cleanest font I know.

[pro1016]

thanks for the tutorial, i went ahead and tried to do it in imageready i must be missing something. possibly someone may know what step im not doing correctly.

1.right click on gif and edit in imageready
2.click on first frame
3.type out my tag in gif
4.position it where i want in gif
5.then when i go to save or save as it only lets me save as psd
6.only option to save it as a gif is to save optimized as
7.so in optimized screen should i have all the presets set to original?

isnt there a way to save the edited gif as a gif without saving it in optimized mode? i though optimized mode is just to save it as a different file size basically.

any info appreciated. thank you

[2mind]

Thanks for this ... now I can tag :) :)

[Whitesoxpride92]

thanks man i always wondered how to do that

[sbongo]

thanks..i was wondering what is the "tagging" everyone in the marketplace is talking about.

[Dale]

youre all welcome :P

[xJennax]

Thanks so much, this tutorial is great!

[applebooty]

Aw thank you so much for posting this -- you're a sweet guy!

I have a question though (for anyoneeee who can help me.) Whenever I try to tag glitters that are already made, I end up with the tag jumping all around when I transfer it from Photoshop, to Image Ready. Observe:

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/7009/3535345hc2.gif

I tried putting text on the first layer of my glitter, but that didn't work because when the other frames came up, the tag will flash away, and comes back only on the first frame. So I tried putting a text layer imbetween (before) each frame, and it gave me that. ^^^ :(

Thanks in advance, to anyone that can help a sister out. :D

[Dale]

Youre welcome Ashley & Thanks :) Eeeek, i use Animation shop to tag, i havent used ImageReady in forever. I totally forget how you get the tag to stay put. I'll PM you and try to help ya out :P

[omen]

You have to select all the frames (CTRL + A) then palce the image and move it.

Then CTRL + S

[Dale]

Thanks omen :P Green rep for you

[Incognito]

Actually a much easier way to do the glitters in animation shop

paste your tag into AS, then copy the frame until you get your desired amount of frames (as many as your glitter has). then press ctrl+a and ctrl+c

then open your glitters, press ctrl+a, ctrl+e, then ctrl+s (to save) and then you're done.


Even shorter is one frame of your tag.

Open it in animation shop then open your glitter.

Edit and select all then cope and paste your tag and it'll add it to all of your frames in the same spot :)

[gluedup2]

Wow great tips, last time I tried tagging a bunch of images was 2005 hah.

[Michelle!]

Thanks for this tutorial, it's great Dale! =)

[cosmic123]

thanks very useful

[n3o]

thanks for the great tutorial :)

[xbeautifuldorkx]

Oh wow.. I was moving each frame into psp... and manually putting the tag on each frame. took about 2 hours to tag a pack.. i think you just saved my sanity, as for some graphics had 30+ frames!!! thank U!

[stockwoman]

thanks for the info. new to the site and need all the help i can get.

thanks again

[mytam]

oh cools thanks (:

[Shoug.]

awesome! Thank you Dale. Nice to see different alternatives.

[Emily]

Thanks for this tutorial Dale. =]

[shade88]

so there is no program that will tag glitter automatic for you, like some program could for static image

After waiting almost a week for my brother to tag my 2000+ glitters, I decide to make my own software that can tag animated gif. I spent lots of sleepless nights and I finally crack it.

Right now it works on 95% glitter I test on, need more work on the algorithm to make it 100%. It can tag 2500+ glitters in less than 5 minutes, no hand movement needed :)

[CharmRoyal]

^ gotta demo?
I wanna see it lol

[shade88]

^ gotta demo?
I wanna see it lol

Well, i got a glitters sale at DP with free tagging. So far every purchase is ready within 30 minutes, since I have to find the right font for the domain names.

The software is not ready for end user yet, just a rough but working version.

You can check out my sale demo site at http://glitter.avatarhut.com. I tagged all glitters there using my software :)

[CharmRoyal]

Wow thats awesome
If you ever get it perfect
you should sell it... you'd probably make a lot

[zuccs]

solid tutorial mate, thanks for that..

[shade88]

Wow thats awesome
If you ever get it perfect
you should sell it... you'd probably make a lot

Yes, it can tag 100% now :)

http://www.avatarlite.com/animatedgiftagger.aspx

I'll have a demo download soon. Still need to work on the menu.

[ifreemyspacelayout]

is there any way to tag them quicker?

[applebooty]

is there any way to tag them quicker?

Steps 07-11 on the animation shop tutorial are the fastest, easiest ways to tag, in my opinion. Just practice and you'll eventually be able to tag a few hundred glitters in a few minutes :D

[barbilee]

i have a prob tho
i use img ready and some times the opamson dont save like the orajle one
what do i do the fix that?

[onegirlontheweb]

Great info. thx 4 sharing!

[Sophie]

Sophie says:
omg. is there an easier way to tag?
Sophie says:
like.. instead of putting it in the same spot each time
Shannen says:
lol how do you tag
Shannen says:
AHH HAHAHA
Shannen says:
ROFL
Sophie says:
shhhh don't make fun of me
Shannen says:
http://www.myspacepros.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7226&highlight=tagging+tutorial
Shannen says:
Babe you are clueless!
Shannen says:
Get with the program this is 2007!
Sophie says:
LOL
Sophie says:
wow



I just now found this because of Shannen.
Thanks Dale (:

[nina]

Lmao.
I used to tag like that too. :D

[Smurfwicked]

ok, what am i doing wrong? i followed all the steps for tagging using animation shop, i made my text floating within psp, copied and when i go to paste into the frames on animation shop my text appears but its much larger and very distorted than it appears on psp...

[Plush]

Thanks for this. This must have taken so long to make! Very nice of you =)

[Yux]

thanks dale, I was looking for this

[MyspaceMom]

Thank you!

[hotness05]

Thank's for this. I finally learned!

[sarahxheart]

Wow, thanks. This'll ensure I can tag in whatever program I use.

[fear]

Thanks for the tut.

[erkstuh]

I have a question about the animation shop tagging!
I make my tag in PhotoFiltre and then i copy it
and then i switch to animaton shop. Then, when i hit ctrl+e,
the tag always shows up really big!

Help?

[Goins]

thanks for the tut.!:)