Creating Animated Gif from merging multiple images

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Creating Animated Gif from merging multiple images

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How can I create an animated gif from multiple images with a certain pause length. I want to make something like this: http://www.ubanimator.com
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moved to graphics
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You can use the exec functions to do something like this with imagemagick:
convert -delay 10 image*.gif animated.gif
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imagemagik?
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psychotomus wrote:imagemagik?
Please make an effort to google/research things before asking questions. :wink:
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my host don't allow exec functions.
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Ok, I have imagemagick on my server. How do I work this thing? my host says the path to imagemagick is /usr/local/lib/ImageMagick/


I don't know how to access this path unless it only works with shell exec.
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Without exec functions, you can use this class:
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3163.html
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Re: Creating Animated Gif from merging multiple images

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psychotomus wrote:How can I create an animated gif from multiple images with a certain pause length. I want to make something like this: http://www.ubanimator.com
Photoshop.

If you create a file and save the animation frames per layer. You can then "jump to imageready", Which is Adobe's Animated gif editing program. And set a key frame to unhide a certain layer for a given amount of time.

Without these two programs, I have no idea.
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You can also use fireworks to creat a frame delay.
Each frame can have its own delay time,
i.e.

image1
|
\/
1sec.

image2
|
\/
3sec.

image3
|
\/
5sec.


and so on,...
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create an animated gif from multiple images

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Try software named AnyToGif, it allows you to convert any image(BMP, JPEG, PNG...) to gif-format image and edit it by means of such function as rotating, stretch, crop, border, etc.

Using AnyToGif you can convert images in a few mouse clicks.

1.Choose folder which contains the images.

2.Choose images which should be transformed.

3.Change image options and press button "Convert Selection".

more information: http://www.qweas.com/download/graphics/ ... ytogif.htm

:P :P :P :P :P
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Post by jkashu »

Unfreez is extremely easy to use for gif animations...and its free. Although Fireworks and other softwares have more capabilities.
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