Assignment 1.8: Animated GIF creation

Problem&Solution:
You want to create your won animated GIF's to your web page. How to do it? Learn in this assignment.

Aim of this assignment:
Learn how to create animated GIF.

Task:
Create animated GIF.

Requirements:

• PC computer with Windows 95/98/NT operation system;
• Animated GIF creation tool Animagic GIF version 1.0 or later. You can download it from rtlsoft.com

Work steps:

1. Install Animagic GIF program on your computer.
   
   
2. Download the frames - GIF images - in ZIP file and save this file into your work directory and extract. These frames you can see here.
   Note: If you want you can use your own frames. Animagic GIF supports GIF, PCX and BMP formats. It means your frames can be in these formats.
   
   
3. Run the Animagic GIF.
   
   
4. Go to File/Open... menu or press button on the toolbars: Open dialog appears. Go to your work directory and select all frame images: click with mouse pointer on the first frame image, press and hold Shift key, click on the last frame image. Now you must see 11 selected files (if you use downloaded frames). Press button.
   
   
5. Now you must see view like this.
   To play this image press button on the toolbars and to stop - button.
   
   
6. You can change frame rates. Go to Animation/Frame Rate... menu or press button on the toolbars, Frame Rate dialog appears. You can set Milliseconds per frame for all frames. Also you can set rate for each frame individually. After you made changes press button to store changes or press button to discard changes.
   
   
7. You can set loop count: infinite loop or some number of iterations. This you can do by calling dialog from Animation/Loop Count... menu.
   
   
8. Save your animated GIF to local disk in your work directory. Go to File/Save anim As... menu, Save As dialog appears. Type file name and press button.
   

Conclusions:
Now you know how to create your own animated GIF and use it for miscellaneous purposes.

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