Topic awaiting preservation: GIF Animation Tools

what GIF animation tools do you people use?

ImageReady, which comes with recent versions of Photoshop. That's going to be 85% of the answers you get here; anyone want to chime in with the rest? I know there are a few good free tools out there, I just never had any reason to find out what they are.

hmmm, Paintshop Pro used to ship with 'Animation Shop' (back in the last version I had anyhoo-version5) it probably still does I would think.

Ulead GIF Animator is not good?

Yes PSP is still used to ship with Animation Shop. It is still here in the 7.04 version. This is the GIF animation tool I use; it is very good to my point of view and I never noticed any flaw in it.

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Coffee Cup Gif Animator is really good. I tried out the demo. I think it only costs $30.00USD

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Gif Movie Gear -
http://www.gamani.com/gmgdet.htm

Beautiful program.

Would go for Animation Shop, you even could use old (ancient) .fli and .flc files (remember 3D animations under dos?) and convert them to animated gif.

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could you please put up the exact URL of where i could download a free-trial of it from, thanx

Yannah: Which one are you refering to?

PSP (which ships with Animation Shop allegedly) can be downloaded from:
www.jasc.com/download_4.asp?

And any UK residents should note that PSP5 is free on the front of .net magazine this month. In fact you can get PSP3 for free from the above link!! I only started using it with PSP4 so I'm not sure if it is any good.

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Shure look at www.jasc.com and search for Animation Shop
On my direct link i got an broken link error o maybe they have replaced the link.

"Freedom of speech is by no means freedom to insult others" from the Razorart goodbye letter.

Hey Emps beat me...

<edit>Emps: PSP is usable from version 5 and higher IMHO the 3 version is still a lot liike the old picture converter it once was but with some photo/picture editing functions added. When jasc added the slicing tools in 6 it realy got intresting. Does PS have those already in 7? in PS5.5 i still need an plugin for easy slicing...<edit-off>
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Photoshop 5.5 came with ImageReady 2.0, which could slice things like a samurai. Since then, each version of Photoshop has been paired with the slice-tastic ImageReady.

I make flip books and then use a video camera.

*cough*

TP i know that, the thing is i need an extern program for doing slices. PSP can do it in one program.
But i don't bother another PS is better than PSP thread. So don't go that way.

"Freedom of speech is by no means freedom to insult others" from the Razorart goodbye letter.

Yeah but....you don't need image ready to slice up your Photoshop image anyway...guides and the marquee tool work just fine and dandy =)

DL : The "marquee" tool you are refering to.. Do you really speak about the marquee tag in HTML ?

Silence is another speech. -Me

Nah, Moon Shadow: He means the Marquee Tool in PhotoShop.

RTFM

It's the draggable selection tool. In this case, the Rectangular Marquee Tool. It's top left on your toolbar in PS.

ulead is really good, if you learn how to use it. which is hard.

animation shop is so so (the latest version, not sure about its hypothetical glorious past)


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