Animated gif shenanigans

Nightslyr

Hey guys, I was wondering if you could help me.

I found an animated gif online. I want to be able to obtain a specific frame of the gif to use as a separate image. I have both Photoshop and Illustrator CS4. Is it possible for me to do what I want, since I didn't create the animated gif and don't have any of the source images?

Satsumomo

You can try using Jasc Animation Studio, it has a 30 day trial and I really like the interface.

For Adobe products, I think you need a specific one, both you listed can't open all images in a gif file iirc.


*Jasc Animation shop.

Darlan

Use the "Print Screen" button and time it really nicely.

Gihgehls

Imageready can do this, so recent versions of photoshop should too (since imageready is no more.) Open the gif in photoshop and then hunt for the animation pane.

0blique

You should be able to do this in photoshop: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSC79F5E60-3E9B-44e3-8DDF-0FF1144F5711a.html

I might give this a shot later to see how well it works in practice.

uean

download irfanview (tiny download), open the gif with it, click options, click extract all frames, done.

Cyvros

GIMP can definitely do it. What it does is it separates each of the frames into layers (newer frames over older frames). I presume Photoshop has a similar set-up.

Seeks

Seconding Gimp. Just open the file like any other.