Editing animated gif's

[PlutonianEmpire]

Where can I find a good freeware program that lets me edit animated gif's. Or more specifically, lets me reduce the size of the image, so it doesn't take up the entire screen?

 

[stormbind]

Animated gif are made up of frames. All decent image editors come with a tool (or seperate program) for editing the frames.

However, using those tools would require each frame to be edited seperately. I don't know of anything that automates the resizing of an animated gif.

 

[Dell19]

I thought Image ready had an option to change the size of all frames or at least reduce the quality of each frame.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

What about paint programs? Can they help at all?

 

[Dell19]

Well you could use MS paint and then just resize each frame. Depends what you are doing really. If its just 3 or 4 frames then resizing each frame individually is probably an option.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I normally use Paintshop Pro, so that's probably good. However, the image I plan to resize has about 100 frames, give or take. And the image is a movie created by celestia, then I used Windows media player to save it as a .gif, so I don't know to resize something like that. Plus I have never worked with animated gif's before, so this is quite new to me.

 

[Dease]

Try neopaint, it has a 30 day trial and I'm pretty sure it can edit gifs (although there's a 160 frame limit)

If that doesn't work get the animation shop 4 trial, it should do anything you want

 

[stormbind]

Animation Shop comes bundled with Paint Shop Pro.

On a smaller scale, you shouldn't need as many frames because detail is less, and lines move a shorter distance. What you are trying to do is actually quite hard imo. Good luck!