Working with GIFs ?

[tramtwo]

Can someone give me a primer and maybe some links to freeware/shareware that would help me to work with gifs? There are some times that I would like to be able to you know edit them. I do have infraview which lets me take apart the frames but that is about as far as I got with it. I have MGI photosuite but it ruins the motion of gifs if you edit them.

here is an example of a gif 12.5k<IMG SRC="http://tram2dotcom.bizland.com/train.gif" border=0>

and this is what Bill did to it 5k<IMG SRC="http://tram2dotcom.bizland.com/train1.gif" border=0> I have no idea how or what he used.

I asked how to shorten the gif and also I want to slow it down a bit and smooth it out.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[This message has been edited by tramtwo (edited 24 October 2000).]

[ironside]

hello dale
I found a couple free ones one is for cleaning up gifs making them smaller and run better.

gifclean32 (http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10077-100-1497778.html?tag=st.dl.10001_103_3.lst.td_1497778)

and the second is a Animator editor

UnFREEz (http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10072-100-1591334.html?tag=st.dl.10001_103_4.lst.td_1591334)
both are free and worth checking out

[tramtwo]

kwel now i have something to play with for a while. Thanks chris!

[Buzz]

Hey Tram,
Think of gifs as seperate frames. The more frames the smoother the animation, however the larger the file size. The trick is to get your point accross the simplest way.

I don't know the software Iron suggested or what you already have, so I'm really not sure where to tell you to start and how to control the speed (timeline).

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[Herb]

Somewhere at M$ is still the good old Gif-Animator http://www.cybertechhelp.com/ubb/biggrin.gif I do all my GIF's with it, because it gives you the excact feeling how to locate the things http://www.cybertechhelp.com/ubb/smile.gif

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Y0K compliant, counting upwards http://www.cybertechhelp.com/ubb/wink.gif

[This message has been edited by Herb (edited 24 October 2000).]

[tramtwo]

Tried to find that Herb, and I have had no luck. What is the exact name of the program that you use? A search of GIF returns 2 hits. http://www.cybertechhelp.com/ubb/frown.gif

[Herb]

MS GIFAnimator.exe http://www.softseek.com/Internet/Web_Publishing_Tools/Animation_and_Drawing/Review_6764_index.html
Think it's one of the oldest apps I've on my machine http://www.cybertechhelp.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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Y0K compliant, counting upwards ;)

[tramtwo]

thanks Herb