Anyone know how? I'm a software developer so very PC literate but haven't done anything in flash and never made an animated gif. This is for advertising on a wedding website.
tim Light Bringer  51,010 posts Likes: 375 Joined Nov 2004 Location: Wellington, New Zealand More info | Apr 26, 2007 06:57 | #1 Anyone know how? I'm a software developer so very PC literate but haven't done anything in flash and never made an animated gif. This is for advertising on a wedding website. Professional wedding photographer, solution architect and general technical guy with multiple Amazon Web Services certifications.
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Palladium Goldmember 3,905 posts Likes: 2 Joined Dec 2005 Location: Not the Left Coast but the Right Coast - USA More info | Apr 26, 2007 07:03 | #2 If you have or use a version of Paint Shop Pro there is a standalone application called amination shop.
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Palladium Goldmember 3,905 posts Likes: 2 Joined Dec 2005 Location: Not the Left Coast but the Right Coast - USA More info | another thought - if you have a video clip you can usually use the export feature of your non-linera editor to export the clip as a gif.
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tim THREAD STARTER Light Bringer 51,010 posts Likes: 375 Joined Nov 2004 Location: Wellington, New Zealand More info | Apr 26, 2007 07:06 | #4 Don't have PSP, just photoshop CS2/CS3. Read an article today that said CS2 Imageready was ok for that but CS3 sucked. Should probably try ImageReady. Professional wedding photographer, solution architect and general technical guy with multiple Amazon Web Services certifications.
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tim THREAD STARTER Light Bringer 51,010 posts Likes: 375 Joined Nov 2004 Location: Wellington, New Zealand More info | Apr 26, 2007 07:10 | #5 Don't have video tools either. Professional wedding photographer, solution architect and general technical guy with multiple Amazon Web Services certifications.
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wlescall Senior Member 512 posts Joined Mar 2006 Location: Northern Panhandle, WV More info | Apr 26, 2007 09:05 | #6 The animation palette in PS CS3 may be your answer. In the latest episode of PhotoshopTV, they create an LED count down using it. Bill
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Hellashot Goldmember 4,617 posts Likes: 2 Joined Sep 2004 Location: USA More info | Apr 26, 2007 11:05 | #7  Permanent bantim wrote in post #3106879  Anyone know how? I'm a software developer so very PC literate but haven't done anything in flash and never made an animated gif. This is for advertising on a wedding website. If you're a software developer, doing this for pay I presume, why are you looking for free software? Most "freeware" is free only for personal home use and not for commercial purposes. Have you considered paying for the right to use a flash program? 5D, Drebel, EOS-3, K1000
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TeeJay Goldmember  3,834 posts Likes: 4 Joined Jun 2005 Location: Warwickshire - UK More info | Apr 26, 2007 15:09 | #8 Hellashot wrote in post #3108021 If you're a software developer, doing this for pay I presume, why are you looking for free software? Most "freeware" is free only for personal home use and not for commercial purposes. Have you considered paying for the right to use a flash program? Where does Tim say he wants something for "free"? 1DsMkIII | 1DMkIIN | 70-200 f/2.8L IS | 24-70 f/2.8L | 24-105 f/4L IS | 17-40 f/4L | 50 f/1.2L | WFT-E1 & E2 Transmitters - Click Here for setup advice | CP-E4 Battery Pack x 2 | ST-E2 | 580EX | 550EX | 430EXII | 420EX | Tripod + monopod | Bowens Esprit Gemini 500W/s heads & Travel-Pak | All this gear - and still no idea
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Mark_48 Goldmember  2,068 posts Joined Nov 2004 Location: Brookfield, MA More info | Does this help for the GIF's? I haven't tried it, so I don't know how it works or how well. It's got alot of downloads so judging by that it can't be too bad. Megapixels and high ISO are a digital photographers heroin. Once you have a little, you just want more and more. It doesn't stop until your bank account is run dry.
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coreypolis Cream of the Crop  6,793 posts Likes: 4 Joined Mar 2005 Location: Mercer Island, WA More info | Apr 26, 2007 16:07 | #10 Permanent banImage Ready will do it. you can have it as a gif, or even export it as a swf. I had one on my home page of 10 rotating images and it worked just fine. Photographic Resources
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tim THREAD STARTER Light Bringer 51,010 posts Likes: 375 Joined Nov 2004 Location: Wellington, New Zealand More info | Apr 26, 2007 16:59 | #11 wlescall wrote in post #3107378 The animation palette in PS CS3 may be your answer. In the latest episode of PhotoshopTV, they create an LED count down using it. Excellent, thanks Hellashot wrote in post #3108021 If you're a software developer, doing this for pay I presume, why are you looking for free software? Most "freeware" is free only for personal home use and not for commercial purposes. Have you considered paying for the right to use a flash program? This is a trivial thing to do, it's for advertising on a website, not for customer work. Making a gif is so easy there should be free software to do it. coreypolis wrote in post #3109617 Image Ready will do it. you can have it as a gif, or even export it as a swf. I had one on my home page of 10 rotating images and it worked just fine. just put all images in IR, each as a new layer, go to the animation pallete, and make 1 image for each layer, as you select each image left to right, make the top most layer hidden and keep going down the list, then once you're done, change the animation time to whatever you want. 2 minute job Great, just what I wanted, thanks! I've never even run ImageReady but I will tonight Professional wedding photographer, solution architect and general technical guy with multiple Amazon Web Services certifications.
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tim THREAD STARTER Light Bringer 51,010 posts Likes: 375 Joined Nov 2004 Location: Wellington, New Zealand More info | Apr 26, 2007 17:01 | #12 Just found another link too that explains how to do it - posting so anyone who does a search can find it too Professional wedding photographer, solution architect and general technical guy with multiple Amazon Web Services certifications.
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tzalman Fatal attraction.  13,497 posts Likes: 213 Joined Apr 2005 Location: Gesher Haziv, Israel More info | Apr 27, 2007 09:14 | #13 Simple to use little free application, UnFREEz. Elie / אלי
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tim THREAD STARTER Light Bringer 51,010 posts Likes: 375 Joined Nov 2004 Location: Wellington, New Zealand More info | Apr 30, 2007 02:21 | #14 Thanks everyone, I got the animated gif to work and the same as a shockwave thingy Professional wedding photographer, solution architect and general technical guy with multiple Amazon Web Services certifications.
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TeeJay Goldmember 3,834 posts Likes: 4 Joined Jun 2005 Location: Warwickshire - UK More info | Apr 30, 2007 03:35 | #15 Tim, the best thing I have come across (although not completely "free") is almost any version of Paint Shop Pro (I still use version 5 for things like this, which you should be able to pick up for next-to-nothing) 1DsMkIII | 1DMkIIN | 70-200 f/2.8L IS | 24-70 f/2.8L | 24-105 f/4L IS | 17-40 f/4L | 50 f/1.2L | WFT-E1 & E2 Transmitters - Click Here for setup advice | CP-E4 Battery Pack x 2 | ST-E2 | 580EX | 550EX | 430EXII | 420EX | Tripod + monopod | Bowens Esprit Gemini 500W/s heads & Travel-Pak | All this gear - and still no idea
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