Creating GIF Animation for Your Photographs - by umran
Over the daily shout thread, I’m amazed with Tom’s work on the animation graphics, many asked how it was done, his answered was using GIF extension file. It was mind boggling at first so I surfed the internet to find out more information about this. There are a lot of GIF animators software available, but many is for trial purposes and if one really interested he or she may opt to buy the product.
So how to make a static photo some what appear to be non static? For example, how to make an animal eye in a static photo blink? Or perhaps, how to continuously make lighting level change in a static photo? And off course many more……
To answer those questions, I downloaded one particular software, after figuring it out on how to use it, it run perfectly as per plan but the setback was it put up it’s brand name on the finish product. This is something that i really hate! But one thing good is that i learned the basic thing about animation. It utilized GIF extension file, and timed the frame to frame into either single loop and stop or continuous looping. This opened up a new door to me. Yes if we really want a moving picture we might as well as doing some video shooting! But that’ll consume too much memory space and i believe nothing really special about it either …. Full Article.
