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As you all know it's that time again.

What is the best Free and legal gif maker you guys have?
>> Anonymous
legal? on the interweb? you're kidding, right?
>> Captain Sage !KGd4EzPqcU!!jLN
http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html -> Pure Data

* the program I use for converting from Movies to TIF or JPG images. It's also the best program for adding text on top of GIFs

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php -> ImageMagick

* This program is useful for converting between formats. Typcially once I've dumped the movies frames I want into TIF files, I just type

"mogrify -format gif *.tif" and it converts them all to individual GIF files.

http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/ -> Gifsicle

* Used to make the many GIF files into one animated GIF. Tons of options.
>> sempai's pleasurous nutrients !UXYkIpCvwg!!a9z
why does it need to be legal? if they wanted me to pay they wouldn't charge $700 for adobr photoshop/image ready.
>> Anonymous
     File :-(, x)
been using virtualdub and animation shop 3 since the beginning; for half that time i've gotten by on just the latter.
>> Anonymous
> why does it need to be legal? if they wanted me to pay they wouldn't charge $700 for adobr photoshop/image ready.

Yeah, I am sure they charge so much so that people steal their software.

They charge so much because professional firms will pay their price for that software. If companies will pay it, Adobe and others will continue to charge it. And since they know a lot of everyday people don't pay it, that's why they released "elements." Not as powerful as the full fledged $700 versions, no, but atleast you know you paid for it.

Of course, some people have no heart, would kill their grandmother for $5, and like torturing little homeless kittens. :D
>> All freeware animated gif solution Anonymous
Comment too long. lol. OK, fine.

So, you want to make animated .gifs, and have no money? FEAR NOT. I have the solution.

Chances are the images you want are from a movie file on your PC. Grab virtualdub so you can open that file. Get virtualdub-mpeg2, which lets you open mpeg2 (i.e. decoded dvd) files.
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/

(If you happen to have a wmv or asf or mov file, well, virtualdub really can't open those. wmv and asf because Micro$oft owns teh patent, and although virtualdub USED to be able to do it, they got sent a C&D and can no longer. So to work with those, you can convert them. Might degrade quality a tad, but, come on, yer making an animated gif, so it doesn't need THAT good of a quality. ;)
To convert, grab Super. THE best video convertor available anywhere. AND its free!
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html )

Now you have your images. To animate, then, I normally use unfreez. Of course, that program only accepts .gif images. And I have jpegs.

So, I need to convert from jpg to gif.
I open up irfanview, which is also free. I go into batch conversion, and away I go. Zoom!
http://www.irfanview.com/

Then I load up the images in unfreez, http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/ which is also free, tell it to loop, set animation delay, then tell it to make gif. And, walla, animated gif.

Oh, but it seems a bit large. Damn, I gotta fix that.

There's Trout's Gif Optimizer.
http://chemware.co.nz/tgo.htm
Free, also. And does a pretty good job of shrinking the file down.
I found a program called gifsicle, from *nix, but as yet I can't get it to even optimize a file. :\
>> All freeware animated gif solution Anonymous
part 2:

If all that converting the images is too much, you can ignore the part after using virtualdub, and just use Teh Gimp. Yes, Gimp can do animated gifs!! :D
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/
http://www.gimp.org/

Each frame will be a new layer.
For the delay, make sure that you name each layer (or it could just be left as the default name, but you need to add in the delay time for each frame at the end, so it would be "frame 3 (100ms)" "frame 4 (100ms)" "frame 5 (500ms)" etc, making sure the time and ms have no space.
(If you want all the frames to be the same delay, you can wait until you export your image, and there will be a dialog screen that will say (delay between frames where unspecified) so, if you want most frames to be 30 ms, you can wait until then to set that. In that dialog, you can also choose to loop forever, interlace, set gif comment ("Created with The GIMP" is default), and frame disposal (not exactly sure what this does).
When you go to save, choose save as, type in the name you want and make sure its set to .gif, in the dialog box that follows, choose "Save as animation" and "convert to indexed"

All of that should do pretty well in getting most of your animated gif making needs under way and complete.
>> sempai's pleasurous nutrients !UXYkIpCvwg!!a9z
>>211426
surely you're not equating piracy with the murder of kitties...
>> Anonymous
>>211544
Everytime you pirate, god kills a little kittie.
Everytime you advocate piracy, god kills 5 kitties.
Everytime you question someone who questions your stance on piracy, god kills 10 kitties.
STOP KILLING TEH KITTIES! :cry:
>> Anonymous
>>211551
there are too many kitties anyway...
>> Jhoh! !9J6Xe7Aqf.
Just get a torrent Photoshop/ImageReady CS2. The only people who don't already have Photoshop are girls (i.e. no one).