Re: Animated Gifs

Well, it's not quite as easy as brushing your teeth...but it is comparable to
tying your shoe laces.  The animation program simply combines existing GIF's
into one animated one.  Therefore, you are right that you need something like
Photoshop to create the frames.  It is a good idea to make all the frames the
same size.  Rotating an image shouldn't change it's size or distort the image.
If you want to rotate a logo, give yourself a lot of space around the logo and
then rotate the selection (not the whole canvas).  For some examples that I
created, check out the front page of this site.  http://www.umich.edu/~delt

Drew



In a message dated 12/12/97 2:49:06 AM, paulag(at)enter.net wrote:

>I am totally new to this animated gif thing & just downloaded Gif
>Construction Set.  The problem I seem to be having is I can't get the
>first step figured out (preparing individual gifs for animation).
>
>How wouldI go about making "frames" of the same gif.  For instance, a
>logo which is horizontal  (-----)  which I want to make into individual
>frames of the same size but where the logo is rotated a bit each time
>and then save them into separate gif files.  This seems to be what I
>need to do to animate this thing in gif construction set but I can't get
>this first step together.  When I try rotating in Photoshop it changes
>the size of the image, the logo  & all sort of things, so when it is
>later animated it looks like its spazzz city. I've been searching the
>web for a tutorial but it seems people refer to making these frames like
>its as easy as and as familiar to everyone as brushing teeth!
>
>Thanks in advance for any help
>
>-paula
>-- 
>Paula Gregorowicz
><paulag(at)enter.net>

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