Animated Gifs

cormie

Hi there,
Could someone please guide me as to what program will let me create an animated gif for free please? I just need to create pretty basic .gifs, something like this would be fine:



I'd also like to know how to make .gifs like this:



Thanks for any feedback!

RE*AC*TOR

i believe adobe image ready does the job - and afaik it comes with photoshop cs.

cormie

Thanks for the feedback, I take it photoshop isn't free no? Do you know of any free ones?

Shrimp

You can download a free 30 day trial of macromedia fireworks, which also does the job.

cormie

Thanks for the tip son;)

Oriel

As would a trial version of Fireworks ;-)

cormie

Thanks again.. how exactly do I go about making a gif from 2/3/4 still images when I get it so?

Oriel

Doing a quick seach of the help section will lead you to a panel, where you can import the different images and say how long you want each of the images to be displayed for - usually you'll set these to be the same, As far as I remember, in FireWorks, this is defaulted to 1 second.

Again, the online help is probably the best way to go, rather than hahve people here dictate the instructions.

S.

cormie

Ok thanks, I'll give it a whir later, if anyone has experience of both programs mentioned, could you give me your oppinion of which is the one worth getting please?

DuFF-MAN

Here is a link to a free GIF animator:

GIF Animator

Good for beginners.

^*POP-Up Warning*^

Shrimp

sinecurea wrote:

in FireWorks, this is defaulted to 1 second.
S.

It's actually 7/100 of a second.

cormie

DuFF-MAN wrote:

Here is a link to a free GIF animator:

GIF Animator

Good for beginners.

^*POP-Up Warning*^

Hi, thanks for that, I just had a quick go now, going to bed so I'll give it a proper go tomorrow but I got what I wanted already, i.e. making 2 images into a gif. Free too:) thanks again and to everyone else for their help:)

Mimikyu

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cormie

You sure you downloaded it? did you install it? When I went to that link, I had to click about 3 different links to get it to download and then it set up normally and it's in the start menu for me. Maybe try install again?

DuFF-MAN

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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Just go to:

1.Start
2.Search
3.Files and Folders..
4.And type "gifsetup.exe"
5.That should find it.

(Thats if you did download it!!)

cormie

Ok well here is my first attempt. Any comments whether good or bad appreciated. Is there enough time between each frame etc do you guys think?

Shrimp

Here what do you want on it... and like i'll make you one.. do you want it to fade? etc?

cormie

Ah it's not that bad is it that you're offering to make me one

Thanks allot for the help:)

What exactly could you do to it though? I'm sure it can be made allot better, but I don't really have the expertise with the software. It's to fit into the bottom left banner space on poker.ie. I'm not too sure how wide the images are able to be or what the best way to even do it is. Should there even be room for 3 different banners like there is now or would it look better with just one banner etc etc.

Mimikyu

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cormie

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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try

C:\program files\microsoft gif animator

hopefully it will work?

Mimikyu

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cormie

I'm clueless, maybe start a new thread in the computers section and someone may be able to help there?

PurpleFistMixer

Surely when you're installing it it asks you to specify a folder to install to? Therefore... it'd be there?

Mimikyu

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PurpleFistMixer

Hum. I gather you're using XP? I don't know how different that is to 2k... anyway. Just try searching for various "gif animator" things until you find the right .exe? It's gotta be SOMEWHERE...

rsynnott

cormie wrote:

http://affiliates.victor.com/click_through.jsp?system=Poker&affiliateid=4141

I wonder whose affiliate link that is? :mad:

Mimikyu

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zokrez

Have you tried google desktop search ?