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Saving the
images to your computer - Okay, you have shot one
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more of
your pictures and they are digitized and ready for saving on your |
computer. If you
have a digital camera or flat bed scanner it probably came |
with its
own image viewing and saving software. If you had the photo lab |
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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software just click on
your BACK button to return to this page. Or you can |
bookmark this page or add
it to your favorites list before downloading the |
program(s) so you can find
your way back. |
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Irfanview 32 -
Image importing and viewing software can be downloaded at: |
http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/ |
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(Caution: if you don't know how to download software from the web |
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ask your
parent to help you or get help from someone who does.) |
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Irfanview 32 (IV32) is a
multi-feature software package that lets you view |
digitized
images in most of the popular file formats including JPEG which is |
probably
the format used for digitizing your photos. IV 32 can even import |
images directly from a
digital camera or a flat bed scanner. And it has a |
slide show feature that
lets you "screen" your animation before it goes into |
the GIF animator program
for final editing. |
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After you
have viewed the images in IV32 or other image viewing software |
you need
to save the images on your computer or disc in a format that can |
imported into a GIF
animation program. If you don't have a GIF animator |
program already installed
on your computer and you want to download a |
free copy of Microsoft
GIF Animator (listed below) you will need to save your |
images in
the GIF89a format. Some other GIF animator programs let you |
import images in a variety
of formats other than GIF. They act as a viewing |
and GIF animation program
all in one. |
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Finally,
you need to import your GIF (or other format) images into a GIF |
animation
program that will actually create the final animation. There are |
many good,
inexpensive GIF animation programs available. However, you |
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: |
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: |
http://www.mac.org/graphics/gifbuilder |
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That's it
in a nutshell. There are many good animation tutorials on the web |
that go into greater
detail how to plan your shoot, shoot it, and edit it. Like |
most worthwhile things in
life, learning how to produce your own animated |
GIFs of your Polymorf
models requires a little concentration, practice, and |
persistence. But
once you've mastered the technique you will find it is |
pretty easy to do. And you will get great satisfaction from playing
your |
animations over and
over again. You can even post them on your web page |
for all the world to
see just like the big shot Hollywood producers. |
Animate your imagination! |
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