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| Thread ID: 28301 | 2002-12-16 02:08:00 | Editing GIF Files | csinclair83 (200) | Press F1 |
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| 106448 | 2002-12-16 02:08:00 | I have a gif file or 2 that i want to edit, by removing some words and maybe adding some new ones..that are on the gif picture.... ANd I have no experience in Dreamweaver/fireworks/flash if thats what they are used for... Is there some simple way of doing this? Chris |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 106449 | 2002-12-16 02:10:00 | Gif (Graphics Interchange Format) files can be edited with almost any photo editing program i.e. PaintShop or PhotoShop. Do you have any imaging software? | honeylaser (814) | ||
| 106450 | 2002-12-16 02:11:00 | I have Photoshop 6... | csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 106451 | 2002-12-16 02:14:00 | Opps..it posted when i pressed enter? i wonder why.. I have photoshop 6... but when i tried it in that, it said "This is an animated gif, you can only veiw one frame.saving over this file will result in a loss of information" So, is there any settings i need to adjust or anything? Chris |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 106452 | 2002-12-16 02:43:00 | I have a suspicion that this is a fairly difficult thing to do. A .GIF file with text on the picture has the text as part of the picture. It's not a picture with a separate bit of the file containing text. You can put more text in, but removing the old (apart from cutting off that area of the picture) is a bit tricky. Photoshop etc will do it, but it's not easy: you need to paint over the text with "regenerated" bits of the picture which have been covered. An animated .GIF just makes more work. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 106453 | 2002-12-16 03:28:00 | Hey Chris, how's it going? :-) The message that Photoshop is giving you is because, like it says, the .gif file is an animation. Animations consist of a number of slightly different pictures that run like in a film. If you want to edit the .gif and have it display as an animation again you will have to use an animation editor to separate and edit each one of the pictures in the .gif file. I would have thought Photoshop would come with one but if not then you will find an editor somewhere on the internet. If you just want to use the picture and not have it animate then you don't need to worry about the "loss of information" because the other pictures contained in the file will just disappear. I would advise you to save a copy of your .gif before editing it in case you don't like the results and wish to start again. Hopefully you can understand what I'm trying to say - I know I haven't done a very good job at explaining it... |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 106454 | 2002-12-16 03:38:00 | When you installed Photoshop 6, you should have also been given the option to install Adobe ImageReady. This is Adobe's animation suite. Try opening the .gif file in this program and you should be able to see the different "frames" if the animation panel is open (Window > Show Animation). Hope this helps :) |
Mary H (769) | ||
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