[texastoy4her]

Forgive me if this is been answered before. I tried searching and have not been able t find the right answer.

What I am looking at, is animating a .gif image. I have an image that I want animated but haven't been able to figure out how. I will upload it here so you can see the image. It is of the american flag. I would like it to be wavy. Like the wind is blowing. The problem I am having is I guess since there is only 1 frame, it can't be animated. How can I go about getting this done?

Thanks

[ChuckE]

You don't necessarily just 'click a button' and animate a GIF file. An animated GIF file is created from a series of pictures and the series is timed and sequenced to display one after the other.

Such as the one flag GIF I am placing here is made from a series of 8 images.

The images may be slightly different from one another, which may give an illusion of movement (depending upon the timing), or the images can be vastly different, and the series would just be various images.

Some people even make cartoons of these GIFs. There isn't necessarily a limit as to how many images can be used to assemble into an animated GIF, either. The 2nd GIF, that I am placing here, has 66 images within it.

The 3rd GIF I am placing here is just plain funny (8 images).

[texastoy4her]

ok I get what your saying. how could I get the pic that I posted animated? would I just make multiple copies of the 1 pic and then slightly alter each?

Right now the only photoediting software I have is photoplus 6. To animate the gifs I was thinkng of using something like gifworks.com.


I can not see any animation with your 3rd pic. Just the first 2.

[wilson44512]

[hewee]

How you do that one wilson?

[wilson44512]

i took his picture an edit it in photoshop. then i put it in imageready. then i took a animated flag an put it in his picture. did some more editing. using imageready. an taa daa

[hewee]

Well it came out great so you did a good job.

[buck52]

http://www.pegtop.net/flagimation/

[texastoy4her]

wow no kiddin..i think u all done a good job. I know I couldn't have done it lol.

Thank very much

[hewee]

Hey nice program there buck.

[thecoalman]

You can use 3-D animation programs for making these. Wax is free: http://www.debugmode.com/wax/ It is not a one click solution though. On the other hand results will be outstanding once you learn how to us it especially in combination with a good gif animation program.

[ChuckE]

Originally Posted by texastoy4her

I can not see any animation with your 3rd pic. Just the first 2.

Watch the 3rd picture for about 15 seconds ...