Firstly are animated gifs alowed here as avatars?

If so any freeware programs for creating gifs?

Surely animated gifs are allowed.... there are quite a few users on here that use one.

Any freeware programs? ermmm not that I know of (good ones at least). I use Macromedia Fireworks, but that isn't an easy program at first for creating gifs, it is a lot like making a flash animation.

Just search Google for 'gif animator' or something!

Doesn't photoshop come with a gif animator package ? I remember making one ages ago from something that came with photoshop.

I'll have a look when i get back from work.

Amdy.

Cheers!!1

Doh!!! Google I forgot about that... I hate mondays...takes me till wednesday to fully wake up :P

Yeah, still in the weekend from monday to wednesday and already in the weekend from late wednesday to friday .

But seriously: Isn't gif a proprietary format? So it should be hard to find (legal) free programs for it because as far as I know it's license isn't free.
Of course there are still illegal channels, but you know... illegal...

Vain

To get you started JASC Animation Shop 3 is quite good - heres a trial version lasting for 30 days - http://www.corel.com/servlet/S ... 003&cid=1047024443276

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Yeah, still in the weekend from monday to wednesday and already in the weekend from late wednesday to friday .

But seriously: Isn't gif a proprietary format? So it should be hard to find (legal) free programs for it because as far as I know it's license isn't free.
Of course there are still illegal channels, but you know... illegal...

Vain

yeah gif wasn't free for a while, but that license stuff ended last year, so now gif is free (again, i think).

However, the actual software that lets you edit graphics _before_ saving as gif may not be free Yet I remember finding at least some trial software for making animgifs, so...

edit - ahyes pb gave a good example :P

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nullPB3000, I'm not sure how that makes my avatar animated..

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To get you started JASC Animation Shop 3 is quite good - heres a trial version lasting for 30 days - http://www.corel.com/servlet/S ... 003&cid=1047024443276

http://www.corel.com/servlet/S ... 383&pid=1047024390003 Click on Try

Adobe Imageready. Make a document in photoshop, and you can import it directly into imageready. Works wonders.

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Adobe Imageready. Make a document in photoshop, and you can import it directly into imageready. Works wonders.

that's not really freeware...