how to string different gifs?

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25 May 2011, 7:12 am

I want to make these three gifs appear as if it's one. How do I do that?

disturbing, I know.

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25 May 2011, 7:19 am

You probably can't make them into ONE gif, but if you want them to appear side-by-side, you put the IMG code strings together.

IMG /IMG IMG /IMG IMG /IMG

NOT

IMG /IMG
IMG /IMG
IMG /IMG

That tends to work on most forums.

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25 May 2011, 7:24 am

thanks anyway

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25 May 2011, 7:26 am

You mean physically glue them together to form one animated file?
Some work required first to make the image sizes equal, but ImageMagick could manage the while thing: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

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25 May 2011, 7:32 am

resized. Now what?

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25 May 2011, 8:08 am

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_basics/

Deconstruct each individual sequence to its component parts then rebuild them all into one animated file.

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25 May 2011, 9:35 am

is there an easier way?

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25 May 2011, 9:55 am

I think that whatever method is used each file will need to be broken down into the individual 'cells' of the animation before being capable of rebuilding, because an animation sequence is self-contained within the GIF file: it can't just be tacked onto another one.

Shouldn't be too messy using ImageMagick though; with each original file deconstructed into its own directory it should then be relatively simple to have ImageMagick pull the images into a new file. It just needs a little thought and experimentation to get it right.

Alternatively, I think Photoshop has support for animated GIFs - but that's not exactly free... :wink:

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25 May 2011, 11:50 am

I'm sure one could find a free .gif editor at download.com. I'm not sure it will be "easy" enough. Some things take a bit of effort.

But it really isn't that hard. I used to make .gif's all the time. It's basically produce frames, put them in order, and define the delay.