Animated .gif files: How to make them

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I found a program called Easy GIF Animator. It takes a bunch of frames and saves them as a .gif file. You can take frames from video clips using windows movie maker and upload them into the program. You can also decide how fast you want the frames to go. It’s a great program. If you don’t want to spend money on the program, you can download the free trial.

Easy GIF Animator

Last edited 16 Sep 2007 10:10 pm by Squipple

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How do you take the frames from windows movie maker??

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Cool, i’ll try it out. I never could figure out how to make GIF’s.

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Underneath the video frame there are 2 buttons. Press the one on the left after dragging the video into the video frame.

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I got my GIF in my sig. My first GIF ever.

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macromedia fireworks works like a charm and it is also a great photo editing software but it can cost hundreds of dollars for the newest version

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Yeah it costs like 1000 bucks to get the Macromedia suite

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I got macromedia firewokrs, dreameweaver, and flash professional 8 for $15

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pretty gud find ya got there, ive already created a gud .gif

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this gives me an idea that i could make for the members rep page

Last edited 17 Sep 2007 02:13 am by P. Moore

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I got Adobe Image Ready, it’s pretty good.

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im trying to make a crysis core one, but my computer can bearly cope with all the frames, so im gona see if i can do it on my laptop with 2 gbs of ram

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Yeah, I like Image ready too.

Thats how I created my Lulz gif for my avy. It gives you all the editing power of Photoshop with the convenience of making Gif files

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i think i have that, how do you make gifs with it?

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Open a image in photshop.

Duplicate the first layer for as many frames of animation you want.

Edit each layer with the frame of animation you want.

Export it to image ready.

Click on the animation tab under windows,

select, Animation from layers.

Set the timing down the bottom of each frame to desired pause.

Save as a gif and Viola

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Yeah I have paintshop, not photoshop. So I need this program to make .gif files. Works pretty good, though.

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How the hell did you make that? Frame by frame?

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use Pivot!!!!!11111!!1!!one!11eleven!!1111

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No....

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well here is one way of making it you can take a video and import it into flash
and then instead of exporting it as a .swf movie export it as an animated .gif