gifs

The creator of the GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), Steve Wilhite, says: "The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.” He also says he's never made an animated gif himself. I think his creation left his control...

Anyone aware of a freeware or shareware animated .gif compressor? I have an animated .gif that's 100x100 for this forum, but it's way too big. Even converting it to grayscale is way too big. I can lop out frames until it fits in the small 48k limit here, but if there's something that will...

Hello everybody, Tech help please! The basics: OS: Windows XP Pro Web browser: Internet Explorer X.XX (whatever the latest or almost-latest version is) - switching to another browser is out of the question so don't suggest doing this please :P Basically, sometimes I wish to save an image...

Can anyone please outline for me exactly what it takes to construct a simple animation? Say, a photo of Sylvia Browne's head engulfed in animated flames. I'd really appreciate any help regarding this matter; keep in mind, however, that I'm not especially technologically savvy, nor (and now my...

I would welcome some feedback on an animated GIF I've knocked together. It's an illustration of three-phase power flow, probably destined for a Wikipedia article when it's ready. It's my first attempt at producing anything like this, and any pointers on smoothness, or recommended software would...

Anyone know an "easy" solution for resizing animated gifs? LLH

I have recently noticed that animated GIFs are no longer animated in my browser (IE 6.0). The only place I know where to turn this on/off is in Tools/InternetOptions/Advanced/Multimedia/PayAnimationsInWebPages (or something like that), but that does not seem to change anything. The only thing...

Don't know if this has been posted already, but someone has found a very clever way to simulate 3d effects in animated .gif files that is really cool! It's done by alternating between the right and left images of a stereogram. WARNING: Some of the pictures in this link contain mild, tasteful...