Animated gif's, how to make?

[Sarka]

How do you make animated gif's?

Thanks

[Smalldude76]

Use whatever paint/image editor program you have to create each seperate image then download a program such as MovieGear4.2 from downloads.com (trial version). in that program you upload each image, put them in the right order, then set a time interval between each one.

example being my avatar:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y125/smalldude76/gifcreator.jpg

[Sarka]

Cool, thanks Smalldude!

*imaginary rep +1*

[xanikseo]

Some computers have trial animation shops and animators on them without you knowing. Dell computers always have Jasc animation shop on, just search for it with the search tool.

[fatnickc]

With Photoshop (Elements) you can create each new frame in the animation as a new layer, then when saving select the Save for Web option, and select the obvious choices!

[Sexual Chocolate]

I make mine if flash and export them as a gif, but they come out shit, as seen in my sig.

[Shorty]

Best program for me is Adobe Photoshop and Imageready, you make all the layers you want to move around, click the "to imageready" button and start making frames. There's a "copy to new frame" button along the bottom of the animation which you click to make the second frame, then you just move around the layers or make some of them invisible, then move on to the next frame.

I originally used Jasc Animation Shop though, that was great too, but you have to make every frame seperately and load them all together, they also provide some cool pre-made transition animations though.

Flash is very popular too of course, but I've never figured that one out.

[Mr_Odwin]

You can use the GIMP. Similar to above, just create a multi-layered image and save it as a gif, then you get to specify the time between frames. GIMP is absolutely free too.

[Shorty]

Gotta love GIMP. It's like Photoshop for honest people.

[xanikseo]

How can you make animated GIFs from movie files with GIMP 2.2.8?