Technical Question....(Hope I'm posting in the right place)

[Eros]

Does anyone know how to make animations out of still photos? I've seen a couple .gif's posted, but can't remember who had them. Any help or suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks in advance...

Eros

[Bilbo]

you will need a Gif animater or a video editor, remember that moving and/or amimated frames are only a series of still pics shown at speed

[Lilith]

yes I do~ you just hold them in one hand and flip through them fast with your thumb and amazingly they look to be moving.......ROTFLMAO~ sorry I am cracking myself up..... I am soooooooo technologically hadicapped it is not even funny

[Eros]

Bilbo- Any idea where one could get a program to do the job (for free hopefully)..lol

Lil-...ummm...thanks..i think...lol...you're cracking me up too! ;)

[Bilbo]

yep I could send you one if you can wait a little while untill we finish moving

[Bilbo]

got to find the box with the disks in it LMAO!

[Eros]

LMAO....Thanks Bilbo...in the meantime..i'll check download.com and see if i can find a .gif animator...is that right?

[pje]

go to cnet.com,they should have plenty of gif animaters there to download

[Eros]

I found one at Download.com. It works great, but the .gif's i've made are too big to post. I got one to work, but had to cut it down to about 3 frames. Winzip and WinRAR wouldn't compress them any smaller than original size... anyone have any suggestions on how to get them posted?

[legend]

you can't compress gif's very much because they already are compressed a great deal....generally a good idea is to make the picture size smaller, or reduce the picture quality to get a smaller file size.....just play around with them until you get it to work....trial and error can be long, but usually works:)

PS - the name of the game is persistence :)