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Best GIF Maker?
Kaosu Reido
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I want to create some simply animated GIFs for things like icons and stuff, but I can't decide which program to go with. I want something that doesn't need to be really simple, and has very robust timing options for frames. What would be the best program to use?
I thought this would be the best forum to ask in. Thanks.
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You're kidding. Your monitor's display is THAT thin?
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Depending on how much you need to do with it, you have a few choices. First off, timing is easy with anything that can handle gifs. I'm not sure what robustness you're looking for there exactly. It's always just a matter of "insert length of time frame is to be displayed."
Second, depending on how much you're going to do, you've got a few choices. If all you're doing is very simple and little animations, then Imageready or GIMP can pretty much do whatever you need them to. If you're working with long and complex animations, then you're going to need to be using the advanced frame removal options, which those two don't support in any way, shape or form. If you are, then I suggest Easy Gif Animator. It's a bit of a cranky program, and isn't freeware anymore, but it's about the only thing I've found that handles the advanced frame removal and compression functions very very well.
IE, something like... say... Alternatively, something like this would be geometrically larger using the simple tools because their default compression routine is to save every frame as a complete canvas instead of just the active motion area.This would also be huge because IR/GIMP don't have the functions to say "don't remove" as a frame removal type so the big image would be repeated in all 30 some odd frames instead of just one. Imageready (and to a lesser extent, GIMP as well) only allow for one type of frame removal, so they're stuck. And this uses a variety of frame removals to keep the size tiny for the animation going on.
Well... your sig is about 350 over the max suggested... plus the forum buttons on the side too. Dot dot dot.
It's 1024X768.