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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 2658484, member: 77413&quot;]My process to make this GIF is extremely simple.</p><p><br /></p><p>I make them for two reasons.</p><ol> <li>Luster is very difficult to portray in a static image. If you have a couple of images you can show the light at two different angles, giving the viewer a much better feel for the coin.</li> <li>More subtly, a slightly animated image, even just two frames, works with the brain to fill in the gaps that you can&#039;t see in a still. You get the information about the 3-D contour of the coin and the brain turns it into something much more.</li> </ol><p>My process is pretty simple - incredibly so. Anyone can do it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got to the point where I found lighting that works and a camera setup that takes adequate images for the web. I take two shots of the obverse and two of the reverse. I rest the coin on a black foam insert to reduce reflections from its surroundings. The first photo is taken with the insert tilted up on one side on a piece of cardboard to get a good lighting angle. Then I slide a second piece of cardboard under that edge to increase the angle and take the second picture. I do the same for the back.</p><p><br /></p><p>I erase the background down to black, and crop each image to 800x800. I join the first front and back, then the second front and back, to make two images like the one you see above. These I save as .JPEG files and .GIF files. The .GIF files are needed because I use the world&#039;s oldest and worst piece of software, Microsoft GIF Animator, from 1996. It&#039;s just good enough to join together the two GIF files. I choose to loop it forever, and set the duration of each frame to .9 seconds.</p><p><br /></p><p>It takes a lot of words to describe, but none of these steps is particularly hard.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope you try it. You can see more examples over in the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-lincolns.192928/page-221#post-2657990" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-lincolns.192928/page-221#post-2657990">Post Your Lincolns </a>thread.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0059b3">And, everyone, please weigh in with your opinions on grade, and why specific features helped you decide on that grade. We are really hoping to learn some things about grading this series of very special high-relief coins.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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