How The Heck Do You Do That?

it's "magic" therefore i will never tell my secrets

 

I use Image Ready (comes with Photoshop)

it's hard to explain gif animation, depends on what you want to do...

a lot has to do with the use of "layers" and creating "frames" of animation

im still fooling around with the program

 

OMG DID THAT CATS EYE JUST MOVE!!!!

 

Go to http://download.com and you can download a few GIF Animation program demos.

After playing around with these programs you'll get the basic idea.

 

OK. How come none of the .gif files move or do their repective animation when I'm either looking at them or have them downloaded? They used to on this computer.

Edit: I do have one .gif in my pictures file that does move, however, none of the .gif avatars like Dave Castelo's, do anything.

 

Image ready user here too, though not with much proficiency yet. I'm working on it though. You start to figure out how to do it eventually, if you screw around with it enough.

 

i've been having a similar problem lately: the first time an animated .gif loads it's not animated, but if i right click on it and reload it it starts working.


weird...

 

i've been using microsoft GIF animator, which is freeware and very easy to use. i have imageready but was not aware you could animate gifs with it..

 

it might be:
-really slow connection
-web browser properties (check if "Activate Animations" (IE) is unchecked
-you pressed the STOP button (it stops page loading and if page is already loaded it stops animations)

 

Thanks Dave. I stumbled on that last night, after I posted, and now your cat is doing my laundry.

PS. Up till now I never new some of these smilies had animation.

 

glad i could help you (and others probably)

 

I thought I'd add this, since a lot of animagif newbies seem to do it wrong;

If you want a particular frame to last a certain time, set the duration property! Do NOT add in fifty copies of the same frame, which will swell the size of your gif needlessly.

Just letting ya know...

 

I still think you somehow have magic powers Dave. The time before the cat blinks is pretty long to be under 4kb and to look better that ****. What's the secret, huh, HUH?

 

google.com keyword em......

 

it's not like every second is a frame or anything; you can set how long each frame lasts. so that's probably just two frames.