How I make My Animated Gifs Gifs are great, aren they?
They’re like a little motion picture or a tiny cartoon. Making them is kind of like putting a cartoon together. You have several pictures shown in sequence to produce some movement. Now I’m not saying this is the best way to make them, it’s just the only way that I know how. There may be easier methods that I don’t know about. Anyway, here’s what I do step by step: First of all, I use WinTVGo to make my images, Adobe Photoshop to crop and size the images, and Adobe ImageReady 3.0 to actually put the gif together. There are other tools you can use….this is what I have. 1. (Probably the most time consuming). Obtaining your images. Using WinTVGo, I try to find a scene that would make a good gif. Then I try to capture screen shots with just a bit of movement in between…such as an arm rising. (NOTE: Remember, the more images you use, the larger the gif, the larger the gif the more time it takes to load and the more bandwidth it uses. I learned this the hard way as some of my gifs are qu
