GIF Animators

	GIF Animators
	Discussion by jcguy with 28 Replies. Last Update: October 4, 2005, 3:08 pm (View Latest)	Page 1 of 2 pages.

jcguy

I';ve found a list of programs to use if you ever need to create animated gifs images. Check them out here. Some are free, some aren't.

Enjoy!

Sun Sep 5, 2004 Reply New Discussion

killer

Millions of thanks to u dude i needed to add some gif animations to my site u paved the way to it.

Tue Sep 7, 2004 Reply New Discussion

Rob99

I use Adobe Photoshop, with Image Ready. I have tried many others but nothing even comes close to Image Ready.

Wed Sep 8, 2004 Reply New Discussion

overture

Image Ready, has improved a great deal, although i have only used it a couple of times which were required for college work, before that i tried Paint Shop Pro, this comes with a GIF Animator, it is quite decent as far as i can remember, people might like to use this as an alternative one, being as many people use PSP as an alternative to Photoshop(WHY!).

Wed Sep 8, 2004 Reply New Discussion

Herbert

I use Photoshop for photo editing, and Jasc Animation Shop for animation. I love Animation Shop for the ease of being able to open and save AVI files, and its "Animation Wizard." I often take clips from videos and movies to make little animated avatars for forums, and the people there always compliment them

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I'd post one here, but I don't think people with 56k modems would like them too much.

Buddy Icons are also fun to experiment with->

Wed Sep 8, 2004 Reply New Discussion

Skuld

i use photoshop and imageready aswell

its so easy, even i can do it!

Thu Sep 9, 2004 Reply New Discussion

zarjay

I don't like making animations with Adobe ImageReady. In order to do so, you have to make multiple layers and hide and show specific layers in each frame.

Thu Sep 9, 2004 Reply New Discussion

Herbert

Ugh, that sounds annoying. Animation Shop, all you need to do is hit paste and you can have yourself a nice little animated picture

What's also nice about it is the image transitions it has. Fades, slashes, wipes... It's got em all! Great for when I'm doing introductions to movies and whatnot.

Sat Sep 11, 2004 Reply New Discussion

r3d

my frnds ask me to make a gif banner for his hosting and i try and finish this one within 30 mins.

i thought that it's hard to animate w/ imageready but i'm wrong about it, easier to use and almost a clone of photoshop w/ some unique functions

Sat Sep 11, 2004 Reply New Discussion

zarjay

I find using Adobe ImageReady difficult to use for creating animation because it involves changing layers between each frame.

Does anyone know of good free GIF animation software?

Sun Sep 12, 2004 Reply New Discussion

r3d

most or almost all gif animators i've try use that technology(changing layers for diff timeline effects), for some appz don't use that tech, is really hard to use specially for novice

for easy animations in image-ready
: do all graphics in photoshop and create all the layer's to be used for animations and disable those layers, then shift to image-ready, create a new animation frame and enable the layer to be used, and there is a tween command in image ready found in the right side of animation frame dialog, the arrow pointing to right. click and a menu will apper, and select tween

Sun Sep 12, 2004 Reply New Discussion

kelp

I use a light program called UnFREEZ or something like that. It connects animations together individually. You just load the pictures you want to appear and set the time and make it. Easy as that.

Wed Sep 15, 2004 Reply New Discussion

lipunuska

I use Paint Shop Pro 8 for editing and Animation Shop for animate, it has great transition efects and many other options to make great animations easy and in less time.

Wed Sep 15, 2004 Reply New Discussion

linkiboy

Wow thanks! Ever since my animagic program got screwed up, i was left animateless(or ya...)

Sun Sep 19, 2004 Reply New Discussion

melanie

I like Animation Shop 3 (comes free with Paint Shop Pro). I'm kinda a novice on it though. I might give a try to these free ones though, who knows, they might be better

Tue Sep 21, 2004 Reply New Discussion