gif (or Graphics Interchange Format) is an image format originally invented by CompuServe for web usage. It supports a 256-bit palette, transparency, and animation.
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Resizing images for a .gif on Photoshop cs6
I'm trying to resize an image which is in all the layers, but when I try to change it in one layer, it changes for them all, is there a way to stop this happening?
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Animated GIF stops working after opening and saving in Photoshop
When I open this animated GIF image in Photoshop and save it as GIF it stops working (rotating). I see about 6 layers. Do I have to do something with those layers? I'm really not getting this. I ...
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How can I construct gif files of rotating 3D molecules like that in the body? [closed]
This is the image:
and can be found on the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Methadone_27feb.gif.
I am running 32 bit Windows 7 so you know which software will be consistent with my OS.
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Why does IE9 bring other IE instances to the foreground when viewing GIFs?
Open two or more instances of IE9 (and maybe even IE8 or IE7). Now open up a folder in Windows Explorer that contains a GIF, right-click a GIF, and open it with IE. The GIF opens as expected, but ...
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Unable to process GIFs with Tesseract in OSX
Getting the following error:
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.02.02 with Leptonica
Error in pixReadStreamGif: function not present
Error in pixReadStream: gif: no pix returned
Error in pixRead: ...
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Why is the gif I created so slow?
I am using ImageMagick to turn a collection of pngs into a single gif. I want this gif to loop as quickly as possible.
This is approximately the output I expect (courtesy of Wikipedia):
This is ...
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How do I Covert (.gif to .png) This Image to Get the Original View?
I am trying to convert this image, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dijkstra_Animation.gif, to a series of .png files.
This was pretty simple, I used the convert command in Linux,
convert ...
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Photoshop GIF animation: how to slide a 'gradient overlay' layer effect?
I have a simple PSD with one layer, and in the layer I have a 'gradient overlay' effect which modifies the object. It's a very specific effect where it looks like separating the gradient into a second ...
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How to create optimized GIF animation for a presentation?
I need to include in my PowerPoint presentation an animation which has about 1000 frames. I know there is a possibility to optimize a GIF animation in such a way that each next frame contains only ...
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ffmpeg converts .flv video to .gif with awful quality
I'm converting .flv movie to .gif file with ffmpeg.
ffmpeg -i input.flv -ss 00:00:00.000 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 10 -s 320x240 -t 00:00:10.000 output.gif
It works great, but output gif file has a very ...
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How to convert video to GIF using FFmpeg
I installed FFmpeg on my XAMPP for converting stream of video to GIF images.
I used the below code but it doesn't work.
ffmpeg -ss 00:00:05.0 -t 00:00:10.0 -i input.wmv -acodec copy -vcodec copy ...
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Convert gif to svg using inkscape
Is there any way to convert a gif file to svg using command line inkscape? I would like to convert the gif to a "real" svg but bot just embed the gif into the svg. Or any other command line tool to do ...
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Most space-efficient format for image with large dimensions but few colors?
Recently I have had to scale up the dimensions of a gif image by a factor of 2, this resulted in an increase of the file size by about 8 times. While this is not a complete surprise, I can't help but ...
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Imagemagick convert making strange gif
I am trying to make a GIF from a set of PNGs (files like f0010.png).
convert *0.png out.gif
The GIF is coming out strange -- not looking like the PNGs, cutoff, stuff missing, etc. I tried also ...
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Animated GIF as an overlay in FFMPEG?
I have an animated gif that I wanted to loop in the bottom corner of a video, unfortunately when added as an overlay in ffmpeg it does not loop and only shows the first 'frame'. Is there a way of ...
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PNG displays differently in Firefox
Currently I'm working on a website with some bright colors. I'm trying to implement a seamless overlay on top of a few images, to give the sensation that the background is flowing over the image, ...
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How can I get ffmpeg to convert a .mov to a .gif?
I'm trying to convert a .mov to a .gif and I'm not having success.
Here's the error:
ffmpeg -pix_fmt rgb24 -i yesbuddy.mov output.gif
ffmpeg version 0.11.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg ...
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Gifsicle: How to set it to not overwrite the original GIF file if the resulting modified GIF file is larger than the original?
About Gifsicle:
Gifsicle is a command-line tool for creating, editing, and getting information about GIF images and animations.
One of its features is (from its website):
Optimize your ...
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Gif pictures on windows desktop
I have some animated gif that I want to put on my desktop.
Do you know some sort of software to do this? I would like them to be in the form of movable panels (such as done in the "fences", but the ...
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Convert animated SVG to animated GIF? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Convert animated SVG to movie
Is it possible to convert an animated SVG-image to an animated GIF?
I have seen this question Convert animated SVG to movie but "Squiggle" ...
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How do i create GIF like this for free? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I make animated GIFs?
How do i create GIF images like this one ? Came across some online sites but they ask to eneter set of images to make gif.
Anyone?
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Gimp doesn't appear to render a simple .gif image properly
I have a simple .gif image that I attempted to open and edit in GIMP 2.6.11 on Windows XP. The .gif image is quite simply a 4px by 170px top border for a box with rounded corners; that is, a long ...
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Making a movie into a .gif file
How do I convert a movie into an animated gif in OS X? I just want to convert a movie file (any file format) into an animated gif (so, obviously no sound).
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How to get GIF from MKV interval?
I'm looking for a piece of software (free or not) that will allow me to load a .mkv video (and other video types, not just .avi), and tell it to extract frames as images from within a certain ...
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How to setup pfSense 2.0 for TunnelBroker.net?
What is the procedure to create an IPv6 tunnel in pfSense 2.0?
pfSense 2.0 (RC3) supports creation of a GIF tunnels:
The help is pretty generic, and pretty unhelpful:
In pfSense 2.0, GIF ...
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GIMP: Colors change when I open a gif as layers rather than as an image
I've got a 3-color gif image (#FFFFFF, #3B5AA3, #BE0027).
When I open it as an independent image in GIMP, it renders fine.
But when I open it as layers for another image (or copy the layer from ...
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Is there an app I can use to edit an existing animated GIF? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Video/Animated GIF advanced frame editor?
I’ve found a fair few apps that create animated GIFs from a series of existing images.
Are there any apps that can take an ...
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View multiple animated gifs at the same time?
I'm looking for a program/image viewer/gallery that I can point to a folder and see thumbnails of all the animated GIFs doing their animation.
Or something that make the GIFs animate without having ...
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Should I be afraid of a malicious GIF file?
I downloaded a torrent which had some gifs with pirate logos on it. There was a gif with the text 'we are watching you'. I clicked on one of them and it opened my internet explorer browser. I turned ...
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What are my options for free .GIF animation software?
In the past, I have dabbled in sprite-based animations. For instance:
However, that time was about 8 years and several computers ago, and I no longer have the animation software I used to fabricate ...
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How can I save a graph to a PNG or GIF file in Microsoft Excel?
How can I save a graph to a PNG or GIF file in Microsoft Excel?
I know I can save as an HTML file and use the image created there, but I suspect there is a way that doesn't create other clutter of ...
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Is there a good program to generate gifs from a wmv file?
I want to generate gif files from wmv movie files. I am hoping that it can generate from a given section in the movie file with options of how many images are in the gif. Can you help me?
This is for ...
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Decoding base64 images and saving to a file
I need to save a few base64 images from a web page to actual GIF and JPEG files on my hard drive. Is there a utility out there that can assist me? I've looked around and either I'm not seeing one or ...
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View palette for GIF image?
How can I view the palette of a GIF image?
I'm using gd in php to add some text to a template image. I'm specifying black as the color for the text, but it shows up as olive. I suspect that true ...
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Are you aware of any client-side malware that sends lots of junk requests for .gifs?
I am getting dozens of 404 errors on my site that are requests for gif's with apparently random names, like 4273uaqa.gif and 5pwowlag.gif.
I see that most of them are coming from one user. I assume ...
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How do I make an existing animated GIF loop repeatedly?
I have an animated gif which, as originally created, animates once then stops. I want to modify the image file so it loops forever instead.
What free applications or command-line utilities for Mac OS ...
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Setting an animated .gif as the desktop background on Windows 7
I can't get animation on my desktop although I can set it as a background from the context menu by opening it in Internet Explorer. Here is my .gif created using Photoshop CS4:
How can I set it as ...
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Software to make multiple transparent gifs
Is there any software out there on the internet, preferably free, that can turn a large amount of images into transparent gifs (Assuming that all these files have the same background color that I want ...
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How to get images from frames of a gif video?
I was wondering how to get the images of the frames of a .gif video?
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Is there a program that will convert animated GIFs to MNG files?
I tried using the GIMP but the MNG plugin just crashes everytime I use it.
Is there a different (preferably free) program that does this?
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Are animated GIFs supported in Google Chrome?
I have recently been testing a website and found animated gif images that seem to show fine in IE and Firefox but in Google Chrome they only show briefly and then dissapear! This happens if I view ...
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Utility to quickly convert a sequence of images to an animated GIF
Is there a simple utility to quickly convert a sequence of images (I have 3) to an animated GIF with some settings, like time delay? I need to convert a couple of such sequences with the same ...
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GIF to FLV software on GNU/Linux (or cross-platform)
Do you know how to convert an animated GIF (only two pics in loop) to FLV or AVI?
I didn't search for a Microsoft alternative that maybe could run with WINE, because I really prefer a native one; ...
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ImageMagick - Replace the transparent part of a GIF with a solid colour?
I have a GIF file that has a transparent section. I want to replace that with just plain white (or some other colour), so that there is no transparent parts. Can I do this on the command line with ...
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Video/Animated GIF advanced frame editor?
What sort of application could I use for example if I had a 5 minute video or an animated GIF with 50 frames, and I wanted to basically Photoshop replace an object, say a person's head, with another ...
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Screen recording in animated .gif format (no sound needed)
I need a free and portable tool to record desktop activities in an animated .gif format. Here's an example:
I need .gif videos so that they can run from a web page without requiring any plugins.
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Is there any way to play GIFs with Windows Photo Viewer?
Is there any way to play GIFs with Windows Photo Viewer or with Picasa Viewer in Windows 7 when Internet Explorer isn't my default browser?
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Is there still any reason to prefer GIF over PNG when creating images for web pages? [closed]
Long ago, I used to avoid the PNG image format when building web pages because browser support was lacking. I remember having a PNG on a page could cause the QuickTime plugin to be loaded - yuck.
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Pausing a .gif animation in Google Chrome
Is it possible to "pause" an animated gif file in Google Chrome? If so, how do I do it?
I've tried Esc without luck. I'm aware that other browsers can do this using the Esc key
I thought I saw a ...
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Is there a screen recording app that saves as .gif?
I have a blog, and sometimes I'd like to show my readers something specific about computers.
I've seen a lot of screen recording software, but all seem to save as video files.
Do any save as an ...
