Flickers… part 5… and how you, too, can do something like this… I mean, if you have any desire to do so…

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It’s fun and easy to do these weird little animation things I am always sticking in my posts. The only limit is your imagination…

This example is nothing extraordinary. I took a simple picture of some butterflies off Google, then made copies and used some of Photoshop’s filters on each of them.

Then, I opened Lunapics.com, a photo editing program that you can even use to do most of these effects and many others, and it is free to use.

To make the animations… after you complete the pictures… you just open one, then click the ‘add animation’ button in the edit menu. Then select the next picture. Remember to keep the pictures small… about 72 DPI and less than ten inches in the widest direction…

Save them to your downloads, and add them to posts as you do with any photos.

If you want some ideas, look in my sidebar… on the right, near the bottom… at the word cloud of categories called: ‘Stuff you might like’… one of the titles is called: ‘my weird moving pictures’, which I add all my little animations to when I post them.

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Cousins…

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Sorry… I thought we were done with this too… but my cousin Lynne, on the right up there… keeps posting pictures of their visit from England on Facebook now that she is back home. There I am, with her and cousin Dot, in Old Town here in San Diego. I know you don’t really care… but once again, I can’t waste pictures of me… I just can’t…

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Besides, I love my crazy English cousins!!!

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There we are at the little art village near the San Diego zoo.

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And there I am… in my natural environment… my ‘native habitat’, as it were… I never get tired of looking at me, and I hope you don’t either… because this blog is all about my life… in which, if I do say myself, I play a fairly substantial role… HA!!!

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Because… me!!!

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I borrowed these pictures from my English cousin Lynne’s Facebook posts about their recent visit with us… because we all know I never waste a picture of me!!! There I am, posing jauntily with one of my weird tikis… This was taken at that barbecue we threw for them in our backyard.

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She took this picture when we were down in Old Town San Diego exploring the shops. Fine leather shops often sell mounted cow horns… no sense letting them go to waste… they can’t all end up in hot dogs.

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That’s me, taking a picture of my daughter’s boyfriend… and taking a picture of Lynne… while she takes a picture of us… It is a thing we started doing last summer when we visited them in England. Have you gone back and looked at our European adventure posts yet? You really should do that.

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Downtown San Diego, when we visited the ships… she caught me off guard!

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Take that! Somewhere in the posts I did of their visit, there is the matching photo to this picture of Lynne taking this picture… ah, the circle of life.

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My English relatives are back home, safe and sound, in case any of you were wondering…

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After their visit here in San Diego with us, the headed up the coast. There they are in the Bay Area with my mom.

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There are cousin Lynne and her boyfriend, Malcolm, in the redwoods. If you are ever in California, you should see the redwoods. I think this picture… which I stole off Lynne’s Facebook post… was taken in Muir woods near San Francisco.

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And there is my mom on the right, with cousin Dot, in the Japanese tea gardens in San Francisco… looking sharp, ladies! After that, the intrepid travelers went on to Seattle to visit more of our family.

I miss them. I hope we get to go back to England and visit them soon, and if I do, you know I will post all about it… just like I did last year.

 

 

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Everyone should read these books…

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I guess, technically, they are graphic novels… but if you don’t know about the civil rights movement in this country, then you don’t know history.

Google them, order them, read them, and then thank me.

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Flickers… part 4…

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YAY! One person has asked for more details on how I do these… uh… whatever these ‘flicker’ things are… so I will start adding some step-by-step instructions… which will come in handy if you have Photoshop… and any interest in doing something like this.

Unfortunately, I can’t tell you how I did this one… I have no idea how the heck I did it.

All you need to know is that I am going to do more of these… and they are going to get weird…

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Flickers… part 3…

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Once again, if anyone is interested in how I did this, I would be happy to explain it to you.

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Flickers… part 2…

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Okay, this is sort of fun… I mean, I can go into detail on how I did all this… or not… or whatever you want…

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This post has absolutely nothing to do with the butterfly post I did before it, just so you know…

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But I saw this guy on the wall right by my mother-in-law’s front door.

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He is still there… hours later. I love praying mantises… (manti?)… I didn’t even know they lived in San Diego.

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Flickers… part 1…

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Bear with me… I am trying an experiment. This may end up being a Photoshop tutorial… or a complete waste of time…

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