<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>November 24, 2009</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Stefan and Adam!</div><div>I agree and I like both the animations and also still photos...so we all agree on the need for both.</div><div><br></div><div>That is one of the reasons I plan to create a book of all of Adam's individual photos and enlarged ISWA handshape symbols...so people will have a reference manual to browse through, to find all the handshapes and to understand their palm facings better...</div><div><br></div><div>And I also hope to place those on the web as well...the still photos with each symbol...so that is coming...</div><div><br></div><div>And I know you have done similar kind of work, Stefan, with your beautiful photos of hands and also illustrations too...you are so talented!</div><div><br></div><div>Now...I can teach you one quick trick right now, if you are interested in grabbing a photo from Adam's animation right now...you can...</div><div><br></div><div>1. Go on the web to one of the web pages with an animated GIF...such as:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/group01/01-01-001-01.html">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/group01/01-01-001-01.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>2. Place your mouse pointer over the moving pictures...</div><div><br></div><div>3. Right click on your mouse on animated gif </div><div><br></div><div>4. Choose Save Image, or whatever it says in the drop-down menu</div><div><br></div><div>5. Open your saved animated gif in a program that can show you all the positions...in the Mac, a program named Preview can...here is an example, and then you can extract the individual photos and symbols from that if you are skilled...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img height="288" width="436" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:88E1FE82-CFCA-4AB7-9467-7DD237640403"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Later we will do this for everyone, but for right now that will get you started....</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>---------</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 24, 2009, at 8:51 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div>Hi Valerie, Adam ...</div><div> </div><div>Congratulations</div><div> </div><div>I love to see all these photos going along with the symbols of the ISWA –</div><div>I create worksheets that show almost the same structure – this is interesting ...</div><div> </div><div>Just a question – do you have somewhere on your website a place to show these graphics as not animated gifs?</div><div>I would prefer stills photo and symbol side to side.</div><div> </div><div>It is difficult for me to look at the animations –</div><div> </div><div>Stefan ;-)</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Here is an inspiring story:</div><div> </div><div>One thing I am working on today is to create the Group 7 Handshape </div><div>pages...for Adam's animated GIFs...as you know, Adam has been working </div><div>on a big project, while he goes to school full time at CSUN...</div><div> </div><div>Here are Adam's animated GIFs to date...but tonight I hope to post </div><div>Group 7...Yeah! Thank you, Adam, for this wonderful work...</div><div> </div><div>Lessons in ISWA Symbols</div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/</a></div><div> </div><div>As soon as we have Groups 1-10 in animated GIFs, I am going to co-</div><div>author a book with Adam called "SignWriting Hand Symbols"...that uses </div><div>Adam's photos to show each handshape in 6 palm facings...so all the </div><div>hands of the ISWA will be documented...on the web, and in book </div><div>form...and I am thinking we could also create short videos for YouTube </div><div>too...using the animated GIFs...a great way to teach SignWriting...</div><div> </div><div>THANK YOU, Adam!</div><div> </div></div><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br><a href="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br><br>List Archives and Help<br>http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/<br><br>Change Email Settings<br>http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l</div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>