GIF Quickie
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GIF Quickie
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.
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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
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
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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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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.
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.
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