How to make your own animated GIFs

[Pellissier]

Originally Posted by Paracelsus

No, that was exactly what I needed. Thanks a lot.

And i meant:

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How do you cut the part of the snapshot you don't need?

With the "crop" function.

1)Select the marque tool

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2)Use it. Try to make a square form when and if possible. To see the exact measurements, check on the info table on right. That saying W (Weight) and H (Height)

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Once you got the square or whatever, you can also move it on the left or on the right, Just left click on it and move it.

3)When you've got the desidered portion of image, go on "Image" ---> "Crop" ---> click

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4)Result:

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5)Now you can do whatever you like with, if it's a square you can resize it too 100x100 (Image --> Image Size ---> set 100 x 100)

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Etc.etc... hope this is what you needed

[KiNA]

^^ .. Press Shift while making the selection... you get a nice square ^^ .. No need to check the width and height

[Tommy]

Well this is a little offtopic but does anyone know a good program preferably free that lets you add audio to video files like adding music to a home movie for example?

[ShadowrazoR]

Originally Posted by Tommy

Well this is a little offtopic but does anyone know a good program preferably free that lets you add audio to video files like adding music to a home movie for example?

i think virtualdub can do it. just add an extra audio stream.

anyways, what i wanted to ask was: has anyone tried to make the entire dancing sequence in the ED of suzumiya haruhi no yuuutsu into a gif? i know it's not possible to make one small enough for a sig or avatar. i just want to make one to look at without having to open the video again.

i tried saving the image sequence with virtualdubmod and ended up with about 950 pics, and that's omitting the parts without the dancing. when loading it up in imageready, it took more than 5 minutes then crashed right at the end.

[KiNA]

This one?

[Riker]

Or this one by Sushi-Y ?
http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...6&postcount=69

[ShadowrazoR]

judging from his post, sushi-y's rapidshare one should probably be the correct one. but why the heck did my stupid ISP have to use a proxy server...

thanks to the two of you guys, anyways.

[felix]

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Originally Posted by Zilveari

Where do you get imageready? I cant find it on cnet, or on adobe's website.

Like KiNa said it comes with PhotoShop... the only difrence in IR is that you get less tools and the program takes less resoces to run. If you have a powerfull comp you could crate gifs in Photoshop, just select your windows (like Animation which are not selected yet)

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When you save you just use Save for web and select gif (or one of the presets from the list, initialy it should be on png) The thing is that most of the tools in photoshop are pretty useless in gif making.

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Originally Posted by Kira_Naruto

^^ .. Press Shift while making the selection... you get a nice square ^^ .. No need to check the width and height

You could also set the Hight (H:) and Width (W:) to 100 each that way you don't have to hold Shift. Using Shift has a tendecy to cause errors. For example 101 x 100 , got to hate it when that happens. Usually it's due to human error and the snap setting.



I found it usefull in creating sigs since it gives me a perfect 500X160 rectangle to work with. Note it tends to zoom out afterwards. So if you see it smaler check the zoom. It should always end up 500X160 exact. Using this method you skip image resize since your croping it to the exact size

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Other tool have this option as the Fixed Aspect Ratio (the default is normal)

To revert to a random selection set the H and W to 0. Or in Photoshop hit the Clear button.

[KiNA]

Originally Posted by BlackCatXIII

You could also set the hight (H:) and width (W:) to 100 each that way you don't have to hold Shift... using shift has a tendecy to cause errors (like 101X100 ... got to hate it when that happens)... usially it's due to human error... but sometimes I could have sworn it wasn't my fault (probably due to the proximity with ages makes it go 1px over)

But by using shift, the box you make can be as big as you want... for example 400x400, then you can easily resize it to 100x100 or 150x150 for example...

of course its a matter of preferences.. but I'd drilled myself on using shortcuts key already.. so I prefer it

[felix]

You misunderstood, when you set h:100 w:100 it will mantain the proportions not the size... you can make it as big as you want... after you have your selection it will automaticly crop it to the size specified (in other words your selection will be croped and resized at the same time)

The same goes for 500X160.

[KiNA]

Ah.. so kaa? Never knew

Thanks ^^

[Circular Logic]

How do you edit all of the layers of a GIMP animation at once? I want to put text (my name) on my signature, but I don't want to go through every frame to do it...

[felix]

Your sig is too big for the forum (50,000 bytes max... yours is 1mb... it's a little too big )... go here for explanation ... The little things... also, other problems that can occur

I think it's explained in this thread Tutorial thread... if you can't find it, post a request there...

[rooboy]

Total noob question: Is there a way to crop different frames in different areas? Or to put it another way, is there a way (within Imageready) to crop a frame individually? I know I could just crop them all in Photoshop, but I'm trying not to do that.

[KiNA]

Use Marque + Delete ?

[Killaduce]

ok im new here can someone plz help me?
i dont no why the topic went to a show..
plz help me, i got a sig im using for a tourny on a site and im adding a nas video to it but i cant seem to add a video to the SIG..can sum1 help me plz?

[Killaduce]

Plz Someone Help Me

[Spectacular_Insanity]

Okay, I'll admit it. I'm completely, utterly, stupid when it comes to programming or anything having to do with creating something from nothing on the computer. So therefore, expert opinion would be supremely appreciated.

How do you make anime gifs on the computer? I've asked people, but for some reason I never get a straight answer, so it must be complicated. I've always wanted to know so I could make my own. (Yes, I'm a Deviantart.com member: "LostSamurai")

I've submitted nothing, and I think it's time to change that. Can anyone help me with a tutorial or walkthrough (or something)?

[KiNA]

urm.. for example.. start reading this whole thread? O_O .. Nobody gonna spoonfeed you .. You already on the right thread.. Now go freaking read it >.>

Then come back and ask.. OK I did this.. but then Im stuck at this step .. what should I do? I'll keeping this thread under subscribed... as soon as there is a new post in this thread, It'll showed up in my CP as I refreshed it.. and I'll be happy to help provided that you have actually take that first step in learning.. BUT if you think I'm gonna reinvent the wheel and spoonfed you with the answer to your question .. I have plenty other things to do >.>

Its really dissappointing when your question was the original question of this thread... and as you can see.. its freaking reach 18 pages, kinda bit pointless thread if no one freaking answer the damn question, isnt it? So the answer must have been in here.. You just need some extra work and READ

[Ruka]

Please Help!!
I could not open the video I wanted to make as a Gif. Everytime I try to open it, it keeps on saying this:


Click on Image

I dont know why its like that.

Please Help!!

-Ruka