Make animated gif files

This guide will help you create those moving images called animated gif's. These are not movies but pictures that have been combined and are displayed in a slide show manner to give the picture the look of a movie.

Step 1 Making the pics

The first step in our process would be to get the pictures you want to use into the .gif format. This means you will either have to convert pictures you already have on hard drive or you will take pictures from a digital camera and transfer them onto your hard drive and then possibly convert them into gif's or you will be taking stills from a movie, otherwise know as taking screen shots or captures. Also you may want to resize the picture you will use, especially if you will being using the pictures on my space or blogs, avatars etc, because the finished file can be very large if you keep the files at lets say a 640 x 480 dimension which is the normal dimensions a digital camera will take pictures at.

To perform the conversion from any photo type into gif and the resizing if necessary we can use a great program called PhotoFiltre. http://www.photofiltre.com/ This program is free, and easy to use. Just Down load the English version and install. The programs best asset along with the conversion and resizing is batch processing. That means we can do entire sets of files or folders full of pictures in one step. Load PhotoFiltre go to Tools>Automate / Batch.

Comments

[soggycheerios]

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[salomon1996]

thats cool! i have done that before, but the ones i have made dont look THAT good! good job!

[sharlston]

how you do that?

[kill1234]

what the blazes?!

[bmazing]

you know how to fly you should post how to do that on instructables.

[Nameless37]

sick how'd you get the pics

[The Jamalam]

by jumping

[knex_mepalm]

Thats weird, he jumps so good, that each time its plane, so that its position is same height,.

[bmazing]

from a camcorder

[mad_bad71]

this is from dvd to wmv in to a gif.file

[ewohkoda]

so could you take a video of whatever, then seperate out individual frames and animate them? if you can how could you seperate frames out of a video in the 1st place?

[SpaceDucky]

by using monkeyjam and gragging the individual pics out of your output folder!
(check out my instructable on monkeyjam:http://www.instructables.com/id/Stop_motion_animation_made_easy/

[littlemog92]

unfreeze seems too easy but its easier than adobe photoshop

[magicgirl]

I think that use frames from movies in GIF files is really cool =)) and I usually use Video UserPic for this/ and i'm really happy =)

[Coffee bean]

coffe cup doesn't have hi graf