Animated Gifs

• Do you remember the old flipbooks? You would flip the pages and get the impression of animation. Now you can spare your thumb and do it on your computer.
• Animated Gifs work best with line drawing or art.
• Animated photograghic movies tend not to look that great, due to the limited number of colours.
• If you are going to have the animation loop, you need to make sure the last image displayed ties into the first image. IF you fail to do this, the animation will "jump" as it restarts.

• The basic step is to take several images, and combine them in order, so when played back they make a "movie"

Controls over how the animation is played back

Some of the things that you have control over between frame changes are:

Previous frame disposition

• None: The new frame appears over top of the previous frame. When used with a transparent colour set, you can have an object or text appear on top of an already existing picture.
• Restore Background: This "clears" the previous image, and the new images is drawn on a "clean" background.

Timing of Frame Changes

For each change between frames, you can specify the delay time in one-hundredths of seconds.

Looping

You can set the number of times the amination is played as a loop, include continuous.

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