Hello

I have a problem:
I want to create some animated gifs, but I don't know wich program is good. because some programs accept only 256 colors. I would like to create animated gifs 8bit color.

Is there any compresion for those kind of images? Sometimes 50kb image for the net is to large...

This post has been edited by microscopic^earthling: Jul 31 2005, 05:01 PM

I use Image Ready to make the actual gifs, but use Photoshop to make the layers (which in turn can be used to be frames).

If you want to create 8bit color gifs, then you just have to select 8bit as color option which should work in most animator programs.

I once tried Ulead Gif Animator, but I can't for the life of me recall if it had that option.

Fireworks is pretty good too, actually to create webgraphics, it's probably excellent and yes, it does crete gifs as well.

well me too did like moon witch ... I had never animated before.! So got a copy of Adobe photoshop cs2 with image ready.!

and first to create an image with layers .! then in image ready u will have to set the order of animation u want .! And trust me its the easiest animator ..! i had ulead gif animator but its tough to configure.! But photoshop-image ready are the best i have ever seen!

ive done a few anim gifs in Macromedia Fireworks. ity pretty easy to use and all. or i think you can also just do a flash movie and export is as a gif.

by the way for me fireworks is a lot more easy to use that photoshop. its just that photoshop can do a lot more stuff that fireworks but it requires that you do a bit of learning to nagivgate the programs and use all its funcitons and all.

I normally use either Imageready or Flash, depending on what I am doing. Both work well. I would say that Flash is easier to use for creating more intricate frame by frame animations.

I have always used ImageReady with photoshop7... it's pretty easy.

i'd recommend flash for creating animated gif's. there are lots of resources over the web making it much easier to learn

Yeah concrete is right Flash should be used for anything like that. I use flash and make the stick fight animations (its really hard because you have to animate it frame by frame with the stick fighting things but...) for transforming gifs and stuff like that it is really easy.

If you have photoshop, you can use imageready, but it's a little tricky when you have no actual knownledge of it. but i'm sure you can find online tutorial and you know, you'll eventually get around it.

or-

you can download a trial version of animation shop, a little program that comes with jasc paint shop pro.

you can find it here: jasc.com

it's really simple to use, and you actually can do quite a lot of things.

id have to agree with most everyone when i say that imageready is the best program for animated gifs. if you have photoshop, you have imageready, and you can easily jump into imageready from photoshop without having to search for it in your apps. i've never used fireworks, but im sure its good, considering it's a macromedia program, and i have heard great things about it... but im a creature of habit so, i usually stick to photoshop and imageready.

imageready is also a great program to begin design for websites.....