chris_f
msg:860483 | 11:24 am on Apr 26, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Check you sticky as I don't like spamming this forum with program names incase it encourages people to do so.
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tedster
msg:860484 | 11:30 am on Apr 26, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Thanks Chris. I appreciate your suggestion. As it turns out, this is the very program I was complaining about. You don't happen to have an earlier version on floppy or something, do you?
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knighty
msg:860485 | 12:19 pm on Apr 26, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Well I have to say good old Fireworks for me, not free but I could'nt imagine web life without it.
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Stickymaster
msg:860486 | 6:00 pm on Apr 26, 2002 (gmt 0) |
I use Adobe Image Ready. Comes with Photoshop and does the trick for me. Fireworks is also good but I prefer Image ready for it's ties with Photoshop. Stickymaster.
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mivox
msg:860487 | 6:20 pm on Apr 26, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Is GifBuilder the program you lost? That's what I use... simple and fast as heck. A while ago, when we got a CDRW drive for the office, I made a CD backup of all my favorite shareware and freeware utilities I had installed... all those little must-haves I didn't want to worry about hunting down again if I had to rebuild my system. I've been very thankful for that disc more than once.
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Thors Hammer
msg:860488 | 4:19 am on Apr 27, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Fireworks gets my vote. "Is GifBuilder the program you lost? That's what I use... simple and fast as heck." - Hee Hee, I remember that program, and I liked that one now that I remember it. ;) Thor
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tedster
msg:860489 | 4:53 am on Apr 27, 2002 (gmt 0) |
What I lost was Ulead Gif Animator (either v.3 or v.4) I picked up v.5 and wept for what was lost. I have both Fireworks 4 and Photoshop 6 (with ImageReady) but I find them both awkward when it comes to building or editing the animation. I like to run very tight palette and positioning controls on the individual frames, so I usually build each frame in Photoshop itself and then "glue" them together in another program. I don't like automation of important decisions. Maybe Fireworks or ImageReady can give me what I want (global palette optimisation, redundant pixel reduction, easy timing changes on the individual frames, easy "replace method" options). But I haven't climbed the learning curve for either, and both of them have interfaces and Help files that seem inscrutable.
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mivox
msg:860490 | 4:53 am on Apr 27, 2002 (gmt 0) |
No good for image generation, of course... but if you supply the series of images, it will let you tweak and control almost every part of the final animated gif.
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pcguru333
msg:860491 | 9:37 pm on May 6, 2002 (gmt 0) |
I use Jasc's Animation Shop (I create images in PSP) I haven't any experience outside this software, but it has been easy to use and has always done what I needed it to do.
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kingkelly
msg:860492 | 8:11 pm on May 15, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Ya, Animation Shop is what iuse too. Easy, gif optimization is kick arse, and theres a bunch of effects you can use. I also like Animagic Gif Animator-- got me started on animated gifs............
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