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Post Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:18 pm

[Tutorial] - Creating Animated .gif and .swf Images

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This tutorial will teach you how to make .gif animations the easiest way possible! Feel free to try this out on a sig for the forums or for a nifty banner on school projects etc. Just keep in mind to not make an image that is too large if you plan to put it on these forums b/c the image might take a few moments to load/ slow down the site a little bit.

First off, if you want to learn how to make .swf animations in flash, you should use Mailas G's tutorial here!

Before starting, you should have a few things on your computer.

1. Easy Gif Animator 3 (or higher). You can download that here
2. Quality image editing software.
3. Decent computer specifications (256mb ram or higher, amd athlon 64 3200+/ Intel Celeron D 1.8ghz or better
processor). Meeting those pretty small requirements will help speed up this process for larger files.
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1. Create a new folder on the desktop (or somewhere else you prefer) and label it GIF ANIMATION.
2. Create an image (or use existing image). This can be done in any photoshop application, as well as MSPAINT.
3. Create a secondary image. This image will be shown after the first one (like the top banner of this tut).
4. Now, open your free trial of Easy GIF Animator
5. Right away, you should be prompted with a list. Choose the top one, "Create New Animation"
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6. You will now enter a screen like this.
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The left tab says, "Add Image". You want to select this, and choose "Desktop" on the left (or use the drop down
select box to choose where the file is located). Choose the first image for your .gif, and say open. Add all pictures that you want to be used in your .gif during this time.

7. Depending on how many "layers" you chose for step #6, your new box should look something like this.
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You now want to hit the "next" tab. You can continue to hit the next button until you are brought to the
input screen where you will finalize your .gif before saving it.
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You are now at the "operation" screen. This screen should resemble all of the layers that you have
made for your image. You can preview your image by clicking the [color=green]green
animate button at the
top toolbar or navigating to "Animation"-"Animate". If you think the image is moving too fast, you can click on the
little stopwatch in the left-hand toolbar and type in a number. Typing in a 100 will make the layer appear for one
full second. Typing a 200 will make the layer appear for two full seconds, and so on. When you get your timing
correct, save the file.[/color]

You are now done... but... perhaps your image looks "too plain" for your tastes... what can you do?

Luckily, there are many other programs that can assist you in creating special features in your .gif animation. One
tool that I recently used is called GIF Construction Set Professional 3. This particular tool, when used with Easy
Gif Animator 3, was very helpful by creating transitions for my .gif animations. Personally, I would encourage you
not to include those types of animation in your file (for use on this forum anyways) because it will make the file
size for the .gif image larger.

Hope you learned something ;) Mailas G has made a tutorial for users in case you wanted to make an animation in flash! The link is at the top of this thread.

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Post Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:23 pm

hey wuts the link to download photo shop 4 free. i cant find one
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Post Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:26 pm

I wouldn't know honestly. I am quite fond of my older programs ;) You should PM Mailas G, I think he'd know.

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Post Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:17 pm

heres my results from mailas' photoshop animation one:

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Post Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:24 pm

Okay here is how you get photoshop for free download the 30 day trail, then find a keygen on the internet to crack it
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Post Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:32 pm

Hope you guys enjoy the tutorial. I am going to retire for the evening soon.

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Post Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:48 pm

Re: [Tutorial] - Creating Animated .gif and .swf Images

Hope you learned something ;) Mailas G has made a tutorial for users in case you wanted to make an animation in flash! This will be added on shortly!
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.gifs can't be made in flash.
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Post Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:49 pm

c'mon.... nybody got a link
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Post Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:53 pm

Re: [Tutorial] - Creating Animated .gif and .swf Images

Mailas G wrote:
Hope you learned something ;) Mailas G has made a tutorial for users in case you wanted to make an animation in flash! This will be added on shortly!
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.gifs can't be made in flash.


I said "animation". On top of that, the thread is titled "Creating Animated .gif and .swf Images". Get off my back.

arto14 wrote:c'mon.... nybody got a link


It is against the forum rules/ law to post a link to your request. You can PM someone and ask though. I don't know personally.

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Post Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:21 pm

im lovin it

good work as you can see i like it
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Post Fri Feb 02, 2007 7:09 pm

Yea I've seen your creations already tbag lol

I'm wondering if there is already a tutorial for this over at graphicsbrew... I'd guess that there is, but if it would help out I'm willing to post it over there as well.

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Post Fri Jan 08, 2016 1:05 am

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