Forum: Animation


Subject: Is it possible?

MikeJ opened this issue on Mar 30, 2001 ยท 7 posts


MikeJ posted Fri, 30 March 2001 at 11:06 AM

Hi, Is there any way to take an animated GIF and break it down into its' individual images or frames? TIA, Mike



egrafx posted Fri, 30 March 2001 at 11:47 AM

Yes there is. Just open it in adobe image ready eric


MikeJ posted Fri, 30 March 2001 at 12:26 PM

Thanks eric, but I don't have Adobe Image Ready. Is there any other way?



wyrwulf posted Fri, 30 March 2001 at 1:02 PM

There are several GIF animation programs. Check at nonags.com or tucows.com for free/shareware. I thought Painter might do it, but I couldn't figure out how. You can open an AVI frame by frame, and make and export animated GIFs, but I couldn't see how to open all the frames. I shouldn't be surprised. It won't open PNG, either.


Exos posted Fri, 30 March 2001 at 6:41 PM

Corel will do it too


wyrwulf posted Fri, 30 March 2001 at 6:52 PM

ulead.com has a pretty good gif animation program. I have an older version. They have trials for some if not all of their programs.


MikeJ posted Fri, 30 March 2001 at 7:25 PM

Thanks guys--- I have Alchemy's GIF Construction Set Professional. It hadn't even occurred to me to simply open one up in the program, but it worked. Thanks for the suggestions, Mike