Give me the gift of GIF and gleeful shall I be

[meowhouse]

Can someone explain to me how one makes an animated GIF

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[fruchick]

I'm a PSP/AS person, though I'm in the minority. If you're going to go that route... Paint Shop Pro alone won't help you. You need to download Animation Shop as well.

I use the Animation Shop wizard to make mine. It's something you really need to play around with and take a look at, but it's really very simple.

Keep in mind that it's VERY hard to keep an animated gif below 40k and make it look good. It's an art unto itself. Animation Shop has an optimization wizard for that, but this is something you would really want Imageready for. (ETA: the one I'm using for this reply took me AGES to get under 40k, and I barely got it to work).

There's a community called icon_tutorial. Go into the memories and browse for tutorials on animation. Just don't post a question about it... you'll get bitched about. =)

[branchness]

I'd explain it to you, but I suck at explaining things. Image Ready's website has a helpful how-to on making an animation.

[branchness]

Well...that failed miserably.

Open Image Ready, hit the F1 key (the help website should pop up), go to Search and type 'animation', and click on 'How to make a web animation' (or whatever it's called).

[meowhouse]

Thanks, I'll try that - I wasn't quite sure if IR even was the right program for it. I use it mostly to edit photographs. Will try, thank you!