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How Can I Make An Animated Gif Or ICON And How To Make An Animated Signature For Forums?
Hi all, I wanna make an Icon or animated gif( usually found at the upper left side of a post) as well as a signature (found at the end of a post). Any suggestions? I'm a non computer individual so looking for an easy to use tool or application. Thanks...
You can make gif images using softwares like Coffee cup gif maker, Active Gif maker etc.

A freeware tool is Unfreez . very easy to use and is small in size.
GO to http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/ to download it.
After downloading , just choose the images which you want to repeat after one another and click on ANIMATE GIF to get your own Gif image . A very easy task !

The following links are where you can find tutorials for creating gif images.

http://members.aol.com/royalef/gifmake.htm

http://www.bobpowell.net/giftransparency.htm

http://www.devx.com/projectcool/Article/19997/1954?pf=true

http://www.frontiernet.net/~steve_glimpse/anidraw.html

http://www.htmltutorials.ca/lesson15.htm

http://www.infocellar.com/Graphics/16-color.htm


CONCEPT BEHIND GIF IMAGES : Gif images are nothing but a series of images which come one after the other. You can set the time delay for each image.

Another easy explanation : It is done by creating a series of gif images and then displaying them in sequence.

You can even create Gif images using Adobe image ready which comes with Photoshop.


For creating icons you can use icon creator.
You can make gif images using softwares like Coffee cup gif maker, Active Gif maker etc.

A freeware tool is Unfreez . very easy to use and is small in size.
GO to http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/ to download it.
After downloading , just choose the images which you want to repeat after one another and click on ANIMATE GIF to get your own Gif image . A very easy task !

The following links are where you can find tutorials for creating gif images.

http://members.aol.com/royalef/gifmake.htm

http://www.bobpowell.net/giftransparency.htm

http://www.devx.com/projectcool/Article/19997/1954?pf=true

http://www.frontiernet.net/~steve_glimpse/anidraw.html

http://www.htmltutorials.ca/lesson15.htm

http://www.infocellar.com/Graphics/16-color.htm


CONCEPT BEHIND GIF IMAGES : Gif images are nothing but a series of images which come one after the other. You can set the time delay for each image.

Another easy explanation : It is done by creating a series of gif images and then displaying them in sequence.

You can even create Gif images using Adobe image ready which comes with Photoshop.


For creating icons you can use icon creator.
First download gif creator? and create animated icon. Enter search string in google like this free gif animation creation tools. download and animate. their are so many tools. or go to powerpoint make slides and save as it in gif.
Gif nothing but collection of different pictures.
If you have a short video or you already have still frames that you'd like to animate you can use http://www.gifninja.com
http://members.aol.com/royalef/gifmake.htm
http://www.bobpowell.net/giftransparency.htm
http://www.devx.com/projectcool/Article/19997/1954?pf=true
http://www.frontiernet.net/~steve_glimpse/anidraw.html
http://www.htmltutorials.ca/lesson15.htm
http://www.infocellar.com/Graphics/16-color.htm
http://www.webwitchery.com/articles/format/
http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/Web%20Publishing%20Professional%20Reference%20Edition,%20William%20Stanek/ch19.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF
http://kancrn.kckps.k12.ks.us/ats/mybetti/lessons.html
http://www.webreference.com/dev/gifanim/
Please visit the above pages. I hope, it helps u.
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