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Sizing down animated gifs

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:31 am
by Shao Feng-Li
is there anyway to size down gifs, without loosing the animation?

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 12:49 pm
by Heaven's Cloud
Yeah. You have to have the right programs though. You should get Animation Shop 3 for that. I've sized down a couple animated gifs at my other board. You just have to have the right programs, animation programs for stuff like that.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 1:53 pm
by madphilb
I seem to think there was a GIF Optimiser at some point... might want to do a few searches for that and see what you come up with (I don't do much in the ways of animated GIFs.... so.... )

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 2:21 pm
by Straylight
ImageReady all the way... :)



<-------- lookey!!

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 3:24 pm
by cbwing0
I found the GIF Movie Gear program to be helpful.

You can find it here, although I will warn you that it is shareware:

http://download.com.com/3000-2186-10211248.html?tag=lst-0-16

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 4:15 pm
by Mithrandir
I have to agree with Noz. Image ready is pretty cool!

hey

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 4:44 pm
by animenewstoday
why the heck are you using gif? just saying you know that takes ten times longer than png.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 4:53 pm
by madphilb
For one, PNG isn't as widely or properly supported by browsers (and I'm assuming this is for a web page, that's about the only thing people use animated GIFs for, and as I recall, the PNG format doesn't support animations, there was some other format for that as I recall.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 5:09 pm
by animenewstoday
madphilb wrote:For one, PNG isn't as widely or properly supported by browsers (and I'm assuming this is for a web page, that's about the only thing people use animated GIFs for, and as I recall, the PNG format doesn't support animations, there was some other format for that as I recall.



i think it can now it does support it now as long as you keep updating your browsers you will be fine

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 5:43 pm
by andyroo
...the PNG format doesn't support animations, there was some other format for that as I recall.

The animation format is MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics). I use PNG for my web site alot. Although, it doesn't always render correctly in Mozilla. I'm not too sure about IE though.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 6:44 pm
by glitch1501
png works ok in ie, the only MAJOR problem, that i cant believe hasnt been worked on is png's alpha support
png has what i think is the best alpha channel support, but the most used browser(ie)doesnt support that part.

anyways noz is right, you can use imageready
its very simple

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 6:53 pm
by animenewstoday
glitch1501 wrote:png works ok in ie, the only MAJOR problem, that i cant believe hasnt been worked on is png's alpha support
png has what i think is the best alpha channel support, but the most used browser(ie)doesnt support that part.

anyways noz is right, you can use imageready
its very simple


true but as long as you update you should be fine i'm not sure about ie thought

PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:18 pm
by Shao Feng-Li
cbwing0 wrote:I found the GIF Movie Gear program to be helpful.

You can find it here, although I will warn you that it is shareware:

http://download.com.com/3000-2186-10211248.html?tag=lst-0-16

what is shareware? and djnoz what is this "ImageReady"? BTW cool neo!

PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:23 pm
by Heaven's Cloud
Shareware is where other people online share the same files, and use something where they put a file, and then other people download it. Like Kazaa and Kazaa Lite. I hoped that helped.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:44 pm
by animenewstoday
Heaven's Cloud wrote:Shareware is where other people online share the same files, and use something where they put a file, and then other people download it. Like Kazaa and Kazaa Lite. I hoped that helped.



lol that's not shareware, shareware is a trail version of the program your thinking of something else

PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:50 pm
by shooraijin
Right. Shareware is where the author gives out a copy of the program to evaluate, and then if you use it and want to keep it, you are expected to pay for it (with many, additional features are unlocked). As a shareware author myself, please, support shareware and register the programs that you're using. We appreciate it :)

PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:21 pm
by animenewstoday
shooraijin wrote:Right. Shareware is where the author gives out a copy of the program to evaluate, and then if you use it and want to keep it, you are expected to pay for it (with many, additional features are unlocked). As a shareware author myself, please, support shareware and register the programs that you're using. We appreciate it :)



I disagree with you software should be FREE FREE FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm trying to tell people that