digital photography imaging and animation

I found an excellent article on creating animated image in an article and publish the same in gather by Mr. Bill. I found this is an outstanding piece of work.

Here is Mr. Bill's original article.

Well ... would you believe ... magic ... (-;

Ok oK! ... but really ... one of these days y'all have to take magic as the answer ...

Nope, you still can't directly upload gif's on Gather. Not the way you typically upload images like JPGs or video using the tools Gather supplies onsite. You have to employ a little bit of magic in the form of HTML code editing in Gather's article publishing tool.

So ... how do you do it???

First you steal a chicken
... oops ...
that's how gypsies make authentic Hungarian Paprikash!
... which also involves a bit of magic ... (-;

I used three different image editing applications to create the GIF for the change:

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* MS Photo Editor
* MS Paint
* Animator @ LunaPics

Please note, you do not have to use the same image editing applications. You can use your favourite image editing and/or drawing programs, and any animation software you have on your computer or use an online GIF animator to assemble the final image.

Image Creation:
First come up with a theme and select photos to express your theme.

Edit and size your photos. It is best to have all the images the same size. If you want to use a smaller image, edit it, and then open a blank new image in your photo editing application the same size as your other images. Then copy & paste and center the smaller image on the blank and save. Don't use very large images because your final image.gif will be a terribly huge file. The GIF processing is accumulative and adds all the bytes of all the images you use to create it plus some extra bytes to run the animation. I used images sized to the 550px Gather display width. My final image uses five photos and was just shy of 1 Mb total.

Add the captions. I created new blank images in MS Photo Editor slightly taller than my edited photos. Then copy & pasted my photos on the blanks so there would be a margin at the bottom for the captions. After saving the new images, I opened them in MS Paint and added the text for the captions.

Next I created my title page, again opening and saving a blank image in MS Photo Editor and sized the same as the other images. Then opened the image in Paint, added the background colour, title text, and then painted the accompanying scene. Then made the final panel following the same steps but with just text on white.

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