GIF Quickie

thegamefreak0134 · Post by **thegamefreak0134** » Mon 21 Aug, 2006 4:36 pm

I have a series of .bmp images. (or some other relatively common format.) I want to open a program, select these images in order, and have them as frames of a GIF aniation. If there is a simple freeware program that can do this, that would be really nice.

Post by **benryves** » Mon 21 Aug, 2006 4:45 pm

I've heard good things about UnFREEz in the past. UnFREEz requires you input GIF images at the start, and XnView is an excellent (also freeware) batch converter.

I hold little faith in free animated GIF tools, though, as they don't tend to give you much fine control over optimisation options. Maybe someone can recommend a tool that'll convince me they can be otherwise

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Mon 21 Aug, 2006 5:32 pm

The GIMP makes animated gifs and is free, plus has a lot of other useful functions.

Arcane WIzard · Post by **Arcane WIzard** » Mon 21 Aug, 2006 6:05 pm

Gimp = win

Create a layer for each frame, save as animation, done.

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Mon 21 Aug, 2006 7:51 pm

Hmm, I was also looking for a way to make an animated gif. I'll have to give gimp or the other software a try.

anykey · Post by **anykey** » Tue 22 Aug, 2006 12:15 am

I would say photoshop, but bad things always happen when I do that...

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Tue 22 Aug, 2006 2:55 am

I use Jasc Animation Shop (not the Corel version) for all my animated GIF needs. I also use Paint Shop Pro for all my graphics needs as well.

KevinJB · Post by **KevinJB** » Tue 22 Aug, 2006 3:05 am

Gimp for graphics, Jasc Animation Shop for animation (and to compress gifs) but only the trial version

Post by **benryves** » Tue 22 Aug, 2006 10:32 am

ImageReady (Photoshop) rocks my socks. At least, compared to Jasc Animation Shop 7, which is extremely primitive.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Tue 22 Aug, 2006 12:31 pm

I dont believe ive ever used Animation Shop 7, i didnt think the version numbers were that high. Unless you mean Animation Shop 3, which shipped with Paint Shop Pro 7. That said, i dont find anything wrong with Animation Shop 3 ... i would certinaly not refer to it as 'extremely primitive'. You must not have used any GIF animation software back in the old days

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Post by **benryves** » Tue 22 Aug, 2006 1:21 pm

Er, yes. Sorry. I mean the version that was with PSP7, so it would have been 3.

The oldest GIF animator I used was something that came with FrontPage 98 (so no, not very old). It really depends what you want to use the animator for, I guess... Animation Shop does all those text and image animation effects, which are useless to me - but someone using ImageReady who wanted to do something like that would have to do them manually, frame by frame, so they'd no doubt prefer Animation Shop. I work on a frame by frame basis, and so having Photoshop as the editor for those frames can only be a good thing.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Tue 22 Aug, 2006 2:44 pm

benryves wrote:I work on a frame by frame basis....

Your life moto?

, I like unfreeze but ImageReady is great.

Arcane WIzard · Post by **Arcane WIzard** » Tue 22 Aug, 2006 3:09 pm

KevinJB wrote:Gimp for graphics, Jasc Animation Shop for animation (and to compress gifs) but only the trial version

GIMP for everything.

I work on a frame by frame basis, and so having Photoshop as the editor for those frames can only be a good thing. Wink

GIMP

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Tue 22 Aug, 2006 4:22 pm

I'm in love with ImageReady, but for simply splicing frames into a GIF, UnFREEz is the win.

Arcane WIzard · Post by **Arcane WIzard** » Tue 22 Aug, 2006 4:38 pm

No, GIMP