Animating photos in to GIF's

Well this is a follow up to my instructable on making animated GIF images, this one's a little more in depth and will show you how to make lots of different animations from photos.

This 'ible goes out to bobbyK881, who asked about doing this with photos, so I obliged by writing this.

Enjoy.

Step 1: What this covers...

Steps 2 - 6 making photos have animated movements

Steps 7 - 8 Making photos change colour

Steps 9 - 10 Making more complicated moving object animations

Steps 11 - 12 Shortcuts and ways of making the process quicker.

Comments

[sfs]

I tried doing this, I was able to do up to the animation part... The saving part, i can't really figure out. On Imageready, it only allows me to save as PSD. If I save it as a GIF I lose the animation, I just get a flat image... :( Help anyone?

[redcars101]

 If you want to save the animation as a gif, then you click on "File" and then go down until you find a button that says "Save For Web & Devices", click on that, something should come and then click "Save". Save it to where you want it and press "Save" again.

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[killerjackalope]

In imageread you need to go on down to save optimised as... Rather than just save...

[xACIDITYx]

I believe Imageready was discontinued... Sucks.

[killerjackalope]

They rolled the features in to CS3 in the end I think, haven't got it to try with...

[ClayOgre]

Just FYI, when it comes to animations, Gimp can do a LOT of stuff PS can't do all that easily, particularly with the add-on GAP plugins (Gimp Animation Package). You can define custom move paths, including rotation of images, filter use, etc., including gradually using filters over time. ...and when you combine Gimp with Blender and Inkscape, there are all sorts of possibilities.

[casey321b]

reminds me of numa numa guy cuz of teh eyebrow

[Gavabc123]

damn no photoshop for linux

[killerjackalope]

One reason I'm getting a second machine instead of simply switching, unless the second machine is faster than this one, then I'll do it the other way around...

[zpersichetti]

lol linux is cool but when i installed it on my computer it wouldnt let my wireless reciever pick up the signal and it didnt even work installed the drivers using NDISGTK or sumthing like that i forget can somebody help me i luv linux but i cant get on the internet with it...oh ya im using Ubunbtu installed by Wubi

[Gavabc123]

not sure my computer came with linux installed on already

[killerjackalope]

Hmm food for thought there, though the machine will be set up for the job so I'll avoid certain wireless connectors...

[zpersichetti]

what do u mean?

[killerjackalope]

As in when i get round to building it I'll be using stuff I know is linux friendly...

[zpersichetti]

oh im pretty sure it is linux friendly thats the thing

[killerjackalope]

That's very wierd... And annoying as hell no doubt...

[zpersichetti]

dude u have no idea ive had 2 other computer with the same problem, both of then using different wireless recievers and non worked on 1 machine it wouldnt let me boot into windows 2 =[

[killerjackalope]

Aye I've had trouble, got a BT homehub, they're the devil... I finally got it going but I do't have a static I.P. any more...

[orangesrhyme]

Gimp is capable of animation.

[nepheron]

wowowo! looky what i made with this trick

[=SMART=]

heh thats cool :D

[killerjackalope]

Cool, that's pretty good use of this...

[littlegandhi1199]

I just used my webcam and took pictures from that It turned out nice thanks for the help I have had gimp but never knew how to export it to a gif now i do! thanks

[killerjackalope]

So it works similarly for gimp then? I don't have it installed atm but it's good that it transfers over easily...

[GorillazMiko]

You obviously have Windows Vista, so this is what I have to say:

No more Windows XP for you...

_{+5/5 stars.}

[killerjackalope]

Actually that's XP...

[Gordon Freeman]

If you have flash animation its even simpler

[killerjackalope]

I do a bit of flash aswell, maybe do some basics 'ibles...

[Gordon Freeman]

there is really no instructable needed..... you just go File->Export->Movie->then select action Gif. extension

[killerjackalope]

I meant making flash stuff, I'll trawl through the 'ibles and se if it's worth bothering or if covered already...

[Gordon Freeman]

I See

[killerjackalope]

I see alot of niche 'ibles in stuff but not the basic stuff that gets people started, hance my tow gif 'ibles...

[jhazz106]

i have a really big problem right now! ive done all the steps and when i saved it ("Save Optimized As"), it says "jpg and png does not support animation" so it only saved it as an image file. :-( did i do something wrong??? pls help asap! tnx!

[killerjackalope]

Make sure you're in imageready and set the file type to .GIF it should animate then...

[joejoerowley]

Cool.

[killerjackalope]

Cheers joe...

[joejoerowley]

I am sure you know how to do this but here is my instructable on how to animate actual video.
Link

[killerjackalope]

Oh thanks, I was wanting add a link to that, since it's already been done.

[bobbyk881]

Thank you. This is awsome, must try.

[knittingmette]

;-) :-) ;-) :-) must try this. thx!