Animated gif software

Ms Hollands · Feb 20, 2009

I need to create a banner ad for my blog to go with a short story of mine that will be published in a few weeks. The thing is, I have no idea how to make an animated gif. Can I use layers in Photoshop or Illustrator to do this?

Roger J Carlson · Feb 20, 2009

Whenever I'm looking for software (free, shareware, inexpensive) I always start with www.cnet.com. Searching for Animated Gifs brings up a lot of choices.

Ms Hollands · Feb 20, 2009

Thanks for the info. Had a quick check around Adobe products as I figured one of them must do it, and sure enough, Photoshop does and I have that already.

So, I now have a little animated cow and a mostly-finished banner ad. :O)

Ms Hollands · Feb 24, 2009

...and this is what I came up with:

Do you think it's okay?

scarletpeaches · Feb 24, 2009

I just ask the photoshop ninja (thethinker42) to sort me out with a GIF if I want one.

Matera the Mad · Feb 24, 2009

At over 200KB, it is going to be very annoying to some people even if the animation doesn't bug them (and it is cute and very smooth : ) ).

I know that this is the age of soopa-doopa fast connections, but for some of us bandwidth still matters. If you could optimize it down a bit, it might have a more positive impact on more viewers.

It was worth turning off my ad-blocking for a few minutes to see, anyway

Ms Hollands · Feb 25, 2009

Thanks very much for the feedback. Optimising down - what a good idea. Will do that. Wish I'd known about the Photoshop Ninja sooner!

scarletpeaches · Feb 25, 2009

The photoshop ninja is currently shuttling between Japan and Seattle.

Animated gif software

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