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Art Vespa: A Vespa in Motion!

December 8, 2006

FINALLY! I’ve been wanting to upload this head banner here in my blog for quite some time now. But for some reason, WordPress auto-converted the animated .gif file into a steady .jpg image so I eventually gave up.

Just this morning, I’ve noticed something in my Dashboard (that’s how WordPress calls its user’s control panel) that I haven’t seen before. On my Upload Directory, it says: Used: 26% of 50MB. buy more. WTF?!! The reason why I had this blog hosted here is to avail of the service for free; then they’re going to ask me to pay eventually?!! NO WAY!

In protest, I began to delete some unused images which I’ve uploaded before to clear up some space. It the process I saw my header image again and this time it’s already moving! I got excited and tried to change the header image once again and BOOM! It was there!

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I got so happy that I just had to push back the other post in my draft and blog about this instead.

Anyway, the animated banner is composed of a series of four photos of PYKE & myself taken by my friend Jon of Threelogy. He asked me to ride slow without headlight in front of their office along Maginhawa street in Diliman, Q.C. (check out my previous post to see other images the Threelogy guys took of my Vespa)

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click each image to enlarge

It was actually CJ’s idea to make these pictures animated as he saw the ‘movement’ when he was reviewing these shots on the camera’s LCD display. It was actually a great idea!

I used Adobe Photoshop to add the necessary text & logo, and to stretch the background of each photo to fit to the required lenght of the header banner; then I switch to Adobe ImageReady to achieve the movement of the text, to time the interval between each frame, and to loop the whole thing.

Of course, I’ve chosen a WP theme with the option to customize the image header (not all themes has this option) then I uploaded the image. And that’s that!

I WordPress!

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J0HNRANA

john[dot]rana[at]gmail[dot]com


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7 Comments leave one →
  1. December 8, 2006 10:22 am

    ang galing!~ naks!

  2. December 8, 2006 10:26 am

    Thanks, Jonjon! ;)

  3. December 9, 2006 1:52 am

    SA WAKAS!

  4. December 9, 2006 6:15 am

    hehehe.,. oo nga eh. Pls. tell Jon na rin, pre. Tinanong nya ko minsan kung kelan maa-up. Finally oks na. ;)

  5. December 11, 2006 12:43 am

    Nice, unique!

  6. December 11, 2006 12:45 am

    Thanks, d’Vinchi! ;)

  7. June 20, 2009 12:36 pm

    good

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