GIF composer

[rspassey]

What programs would you recomend for making GIFs?

I am not looking for somethings to make professional hourlong gifs or anything, but something with good editing tools and good composing or producing tools so I get a good looking finished GIF.

TIA,
ryan124712

[Force Flow]

If you have photoshop, it comes bundled with adobe ImageReady.

If not, I remember using a little freeware program called "gif construction set" before I started using ImageReady. You may want to try to hunt that down.

[rspassey]

Ok, I'm all over it.

[rspassey]

Err....I installed the gif contruction set. Total disaster....all of it went not-responding after a few minutes, the program windows wouldnt close even after end now....It claims no uninstall data was found when I try to uninstall it...And not surprisingly I ran ad-aware and found 7 criticals. Going to do a virus scan next... either I didn't get the program you had trialed, or it is really bad because I had a few minutes to try it out and it rendered horrible images with distorted colors... I think I will take a trip to the computer store and look to see what they have.

[Force Flow]

o_O

You sure you downloaded the right thing?

http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html

[rspassey]

Originally Posted by Force Flow o_O You sure you downloaded the right thing? http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html

Yeah that was it..... I didn't like the quality so I went to exit out and it frooze and then i went to task manager to close it and it still wouldnt close so I restarted and went to uninstall and it said no uninstall files found..so I went to delete the file...said cannot be deleted..Thats when i ran ad-aware and norton.

[Force Flow]

hmm...I guess the software changed a lot since I last used it. Sorry about that.

[TwoRails]

I used Animation Shop 3 for my avatar:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...id,7652,00.asp

It was included free with several versions of Paint Shop Pro (versions 6 or 7 thru 9 if I remember right). The above link is only for the trail version, which is pricey to buy at $39USD: you may be able to find an older version of PSP that includes it for not much more $$. I have no idea where to look for it in your end of the world, though.