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Can Anyone Tell Me How To Make A GIF File?

Postby Mark McManus on Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:51 pm

I'd really appreciate some help here.

I want to create an 'exercise execution' series. Basically I'll create a new post for each exercise and describe how they should be done with biomechanically optimized form.

However, my video camera sucks and the vids look horrible. What I want to do is create GIF's for each exercise. I can take a pic at the bottom of the rep and then the top and animate it. The thing is I have no idea how to do this. I have access to photoshop by the way but my PS skills are, shall we say, limited!

Any help would be great!
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Re: Can Anyone Tell Me How To Make A GIF File?

Postby redgiki on Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:14 pm

Tutorial: How to create animated gifs using The Gimp:

http://www.csb.yale.edu/userguides/imag ... m_gif.html

This is UNIX-centric, but you're a smart guy; I bet you'll figure it out :)
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Re: Can Anyone Tell Me How To Make A GIF File?

Postby dorian on Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:27 pm

You could go ahead and try one of the many online .gif generators out there.
They most likely won't offer all the same features as a good software would (photoshop^^) but they seem fairly easy to handle and produce good results imo.
Here:
1) http://www.gifup.com/
2) http://gifmake.com/
3) http://www.gifninja.com/

These services seem pretty good and I've used them already to produce some .gifs. Better, there is like no learning curve to follow as they're all pretty straightforward and easy to grasp.
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Re: Can Anyone Tell Me How To Make A GIF File?

Postby Mark McManus on Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:00 pm

Thanks guys, that helps a lot! :D
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Re: Can Anyone Tell Me How To Make A GIF File?

Postby andrewpmast on Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:01 pm

I use gimp... it's free for windows and makes animated gifs very easy (gimp.org)
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