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Radec at 3:46PM, Feb. 17, 2009

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Since I'm currently dead in the water when it comes to scanning anything in, I figure I could have some fun making some GIF images. Unfortunately, I...
1. Know nothing of making an animated GIF other than it must be very irritating and time consuming, but I got time to blow anyways.
2. Don't know what programs work good for making these things.

so, what can I look for?

<= dead and buried.

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skoolmunkee at 3:52PM, Feb. 17, 2009

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I've only ever used Adobe's Imageready, which used to be packaged with photoshop. However this work comp has the whole Adobe CS3 package on it and there's no Imageready- so I'm not sure it exists anymore. :[

Still, if you have photoshop on your computer, it's worth checking to see if you have Imageready too.

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lba at 5:00PM, Feb. 17, 2009

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Imageready is still there. I think it's under the windows tab as "animation" now.

I don't know how it works past PS 7.0 though because I have yet to try using it in CS3 or CS4.

Edit: Not too different actually. Just turn on and off layers you want to appear in each frame pretty much.

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kyupol at 6:19PM, Feb. 17, 2009

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macromedia flash.

NOW UPDATING!!!

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SarahN at 8:18PM, Feb. 17, 2009

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Jasc Animation Shop works well too.

Sadly I have never found a free gif maker that wasn't really confusing to use and/or didn't save the files with way too many KB or whatever. You'd think by NOW there'd be a nice free one available.

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mechanical_lullaby at 4:37PM, March 9, 2009

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gimp is free. you can make the animations through layers, just download it and the package.

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BffSatan at 3:54AM, March 14, 2009

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kyupol
macromedia flash.

Agreed.

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Senshuu at 11:50PM, March 22, 2009

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Flash saves shiiiiitty GIFs. Sometimes.

I use Jasc Animation Shop 3. There was one I used before that that was free, but then it stopped working and I couldn't find a new version or where I got it at all anymore. :( And it was really good, too.

If I was peace, I would probably cry.

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Redemption at 3:07AM, March 23, 2009

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No budget, low tech option:

Microsoft paint and Unfreez. Save individual frames as gifs and stich together in Unfreez. Incidentally, that was my first introduction to digital animation. Sad but workable -- and free.

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tiffawolf at 10:04PM, March 26, 2009

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Radec
Since I'm currently dead in the water when it comes to scanning anything in, I figure I could have some fun making some GIF images. Unfortunately, I...
1. Know nothing of making an animated GIF other than it must be very irritating and time consuming, but I got time to blow anyways.
2. Don't know what programs work good for making these things.

so, what can I look for?

u can get fantamorph, i have it, and u can get it for free here http://www.fantamorph.com/ just click the blue download button

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