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digitize your 35mm or 8mm photos and/or you don't have image importing, |
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viewing, and saving software already installed on your computer you can |
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download a free copy of Irfanview 32 from the web. After downloading this |
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digitized images in most of the popular file formats including JPEG which is |
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probably the format used for digitizing your photos. IV 32 can even import |
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After you have viewed the images in IV32 or other image viewing software |
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you need to save the images on your computer or disc in a format that can |
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images in the GIF89a format. Some other GIF animator programs let you |
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Finally, you need to import your GIF (or other format) images into a GIF |
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animation program that will actually create the final animation. There are |
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many good, inexpensive GIF animation programs available. However, you |
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can also download free copies of "bare bones" ones from the web such as: |
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Microsoft GIF Animator (for PC) - Only imports GIF image files. Download at: |
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http://www.gmail.ic24.net/gif.htm (zip file 147 Kb) |
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GIF Builder (for Mac) - Imports GIF, PICT,TIFF,PSD, PICS files. Download at: |
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That's it in a nutshell. There are many good animation tutorials on the web |
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pretty easy to do. And you will get great satisfaction from playing your |
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Animate your imagination! |
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