What Program Should I Use to Make .gifs?
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Topic: What Program Should I Use to Make .gifs?
Posted By: Squiddiguns
Subject: What Program Should I Use to Make .gifs?
Date Posted: 01 July 2013 at 7:16pm
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For pixel art, I use Photoshop, but I can't find a good program to animate them. Suggestions?
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Posted By: KingGorillaKong
Date Posted: 01 July 2013 at 8:54pm
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Look into Jasc Animation Shop or something of the sort. There's others to use too, I think Grafx2 can do it. There's also a thread in here with a pretty loaded swiss-army knife tool for pixel art.
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 02 July 2013 at 7:19am
Photoshop is good for animations and is what I mostly use. Other apps are better but PS can hold its own. gif output from PS couldn't be easier.
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Posted By: KingGorillaKong
Date Posted: 02 July 2013 at 11:19am
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When did Photoshop get animation capabilities...? I've been using it for years and I never knew about that. Hrm...
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 02 July 2013 at 11:37am
PS has always had animation capabilities and every animation in my gallery is PS made and is what I mostly use. If you have an older version then ImageReady is packaged within. newer versions of PS go to the 'animation' tab and animate away :/
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Posted By: Godjam
Date Posted: 05 July 2013 at 2:38am
Hello,
I you want something simple and efficient to animate pixel art, I strongly recommend you ASEprite http://www.aseprite.org/ - (link) , it's quite awesome and export gifs.
See you,
Godjam
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Posted By: IllicitPixel
Date Posted: 07 July 2013 at 8:42pm
For ages I had your exact same problem, it was very frustrating but I came across Pickle which personally I see as one of the most simplistic and bst around.
Pickle website: http://www.pickleeditor.com/
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