Creating a GIF using CS3

I am trying to create a GIF using CS3. I have read the discussions on Adobe but I get to a stage in the instructions and it is not working for me. I have 6 jpeg photos, and i bring them all into one. All photos are named different. After reading the forums, the next step is FILE>SAVEAS. Next, you select COMPUSERVE.gif. Once I select that, I have no idea where to go. It would be much appreciated if someone could help me out. Thanks
PS Sorry about the picture quality.

Here are some basic steps, but i would go Image>Image Size and reduce the size (pixel dimensions) of your document first.
http://www.megandowntherabbithole.com/2012/10/how-to-create-an-animated-gif-in-adobe-photo shop-cs3-tutorial/

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How do you create an animated GIF using the J2SE's javax.imageio classes?
I have been browsing these 3 threads (one of which I participated in) to try and develop an SSCCE of creating an animated GIF.
[Writing out animated gifs with ImageIO?|http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5204877]
[Wirting image metadata to control animated gif delays |http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=214284&]
[Help with GIF writer in imageio|http://www.javakb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/java-programmer/32892/Help-with-GIF-writer-in-imageio]
(pity I did not prompt the OP on that last one, to supply an SSCCE.)
Unfortunately, my efforts so far have been dismal. Either, without the IIOMetadata object, the GIF has frames with no delay, and it cycles just once, or with the IIOMetadata object I get an error.
IIOInvalidTreeException: Unknown child of root node!Can anyone point me in the right direction?
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Iterator;
import javax.imageio.*;
import javax.imageio.metadata.*;
import javax.imageio.stream.*;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
class WriteAnimatedGif {
/** Adapted from code via Brian Burkhalter on
http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=214284& */
public static Node getRootNode(String delayTime) {
 IIOMetadataNode root =
 new IIOMetadataNode("javax_imageio_gif_stream_1.0");
 IIOMetadataNode gce =
 new IIOMetadataNode("GraphicControlExtension");
 gce.setAttribute("disposalMethod", "none");
 gce.setAttribute("userInputFlag", "FALSE");
 gce.setAttribute("transparentColorFlag", "FALSE");
 gce.setAttribute("delayTime", delayTime);
 gce.setAttribute("transparentColorIndex", "255");
 root.appendChild(gce);
 IIOMetadataNode aes =
 new IIOMetadataNode("ApplicationExtensions");
 IIOMetadataNode ae =
 new IIOMetadataNode("ApplicationExtension");
 ae.setAttribute("applicationID", "NETSCAPE");
 ae.setAttribute("authenticationCode", "2.0");
 byte[] uo = new byte[] {
 (byte)0x21, (byte)0xff, (byte)0x0b,
 (byte)'N', (byte)'E', (byte)'T', (byte)'S',
 (byte)'C', (byte)'A', (byte)'P', (byte)'E',
 (byte)'2', (byte)'.', (byte)'0',
 (byte)0x03, (byte)0x01, (byte)0x00, (byte)0x00,
 (byte)0x00
 ae.setUserObject(uo);
 aes.appendChild(ae);
 root.appendChild(aes);
 return root;
/** Adapted from code via GeogffTitmus on
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9988198 */
public static File saveAnimate(
 BufferedImage[] frames,
 String name,
 String delayTime) throws Exception {
 File file = null;
 file = new File(name+".gif");
 Node root = getRootNode(delayTime);
 ImageWriter iw = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName("gif").next();
 ImageOutputStream ios = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(file);
 iw.setOutput(ios);
 //IIOImage ii = new IIOImage(frames[0], null, null);
 //IIOMetadata im = iw.getDefaultStreamMetadata(null);
 //IIOMetadata im = new AnimatedIIOMetadata();
 //im.setFromTree("gif", root);
 iw.prepareWriteSequence(null);
 for (int i = 0; i < frames.length; i++) {
 BufferedImage src = frames;
ImageWriteParam iwp = iw.getDefaultWriteParam();
IIOMetadata metadata = iw.getDefaultStreamMetadata(iwp);
System.out.println( "IIOMetadata: " + metadata );
//metadata.mergeTree(metadata.getNativeMetadataFormatName(), root);
metadata.setFromTree(metadata.getNativeMetadataFormatName(), root);
//Node root = metadata.getAsTree("javax_imageio_gif_image_1.0");
IIOImage ii = new IIOImage(src, null, metadata);
iw.writeToSequence( ii, (ImageWriteParam)null);
iw.endWriteSequence();
ios.close();
return file;
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
// uncomment the other two if you like, but we can
// see it work or fail with just the first and last.
String[] names = {
"bronze",
//"silver",
//"gold",
"platinum"
String pre = "http://forums.sun.com/im/";
String suff = "-star.gif";
BufferedImage[] frames = new BufferedImage[names.length];
for (int ii=0; ii<names.length; ii++) {
URL url = new URL(pre + names[ii] + suff);
System.out.println(url);
frames[ii] = ImageIO.read(url);
File f = saveAnimate(frames, "animatedstars", "500");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, new ImageIcon(f.toURI().toURL()) );
Desktop.getDesktop().open(f);
ImageInputStream iis = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(f);
//System.out.println("ImageReader: " + ir1);
//System.out.println("IIOMetadata: " + ir1.getStreamMetadata());
Iterator itReaders = ImageIO.getImageReaders(iis);
while (itReaders.hasNext() ) {
ImageReader ir = (ImageReader)itReaders.next();
System.out.println("ImageReader: " + ir);
System.out.println("IIOMetadata: " + ir.getStreamMetadata());

According to imagio's [gif metadata specification|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/imageio/metadata/doc-files/gif_metadata.html], the metadata you are specifying is image-specific metadata. The stream metadata is global metadata applicable to all the images.
So change this,
IIOMetadataNode root =
 new IIOMetadataNode("javax_imageio_gif_stream_1.0");to this,
IIOMetadataNode root =
 new IIOMetadataNode("javax_imageio_gif_image_1.0");and this,
IIOMetadata metadata = iw.getDefaultStreamMetadata(iwp);
System.out.println( "IIOMetadata: " + metadata );
//metadata.mergeTree(metadata.getNativeMetadataFormatName(), root);
metadata.setFromTree(metadata.getNativeMetadataFormatName(), root);
//Node root = metadata.getAsTree("javax_imageio_gif_image_1.0");to this,
IIOMetadata metadata = iw.getDefaultImageMetadata(
 new ImageTypeSpecifier(src),null);
System.out.println("IIOMetadata: " + metadata);
metadata.mergeTree(metadata.getNativeMetadataFormatName(), root);Here is your program again, but with the above changes.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Iterator;
import javax.imageio.*;
import javax.imageio.metadata.*;
import javax.imageio.stream.*;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
class WriteAnimatedGif {
 /** Adapted from code via Brian Burkhalter on
 http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=214284& */
 public static Node getRootNode(String delayTime) {
 IIOMetadataNode root =
 new IIOMetadataNode("javax_imageio_gif_image_1.0");
 IIOMetadataNode gce =
 new IIOMetadataNode("GraphicControlExtension");
 gce.setAttribute("disposalMethod", "none");
 gce.setAttribute("userInputFlag", "FALSE");
 gce.setAttribute("transparentColorFlag", "FALSE");
 gce.setAttribute("delayTime", delayTime);
 gce.setAttribute("transparentColorIndex", "255");
 root.appendChild(gce);
 IIOMetadataNode aes =
 new IIOMetadataNode("ApplicationExtensions");
 IIOMetadataNode ae =
 new IIOMetadataNode("ApplicationExtension");
 ae.setAttribute("applicationID", "NETSCAPE");
 ae.setAttribute("authenticationCode", "2.0");
 byte[] uo = new byte[]{
 (byte) 0x21, (byte) 0xff, (byte) 0x0b,
 (byte) 'N', (byte) 'E', (byte) 'T', (byte) 'S',
 (byte) 'C', (byte) 'A', (byte) 'P', (byte) 'E',
 (byte) '2', (byte) '.', (byte) '0',
 (byte) 0x03, (byte) 0x01, (byte) 0x00, (byte) 0x00,
 (byte) 0x00
 ae.setUserObject(uo);
 aes.appendChild(ae);
 root.appendChild(aes);
 return root;
 /** Adapted from code via GeogffTitmus on
 http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9988198 */
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 BufferedImage[] frames,
 String name,
 String delayTime) throws Exception {
 File file = null;
 file = new File(name + ".gif");
 Node root = getRootNode(delayTime);
 ImageWriter iw = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName("gif").next();
 ImageOutputStream ios = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(file);
 iw.setOutput(ios);
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 //IIOMetadata im = iw.getDefaultStreamMetadata(null);
 //IIOMetadata im = new AnimatedIIOMetadata();
 //im.setFromTree("gif", root);
 iw.prepareWriteSequence(null);
 for (int i = 0; i < frames.length; i++) {
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ImageWriteParam iwp = iw.getDefaultWriteParam();
IIOMetadata metadata = iw.getDefaultImageMetadata(
new ImageTypeSpecifier(src), null);
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metadata.mergeTree(metadata.getNativeMetadataFormatName(), root);
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iw.writeToSequence(ii, (ImageWriteParam) null);
iw.endWriteSequence();
ios.close();
return file;
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// see it work or fail with just the first and last.
String[] names = {
"bronze",
//"silver",
//"gold",
"platinum"
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String suff = "-star.gif";
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for (int ii = 0; ii < names.length; ii++) {
URL url = new URL(pre + names[ii] + suff);
System.out.println(url);
frames[ii] = ImageIO.read(url);
File f = saveAnimate(frames, "animatedstars", "500");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, new ImageIcon(f.toURI().toURL()));
Desktop.getDesktop().open(f);
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//System.out.println("ImageReader: " + ir1);
//System.out.println("IIOMetadata: " + ir1.getStreamMetadata());
Iterator itReaders = ImageIO.getImageReaders(iis);
while (itReaders.hasNext()) {
ImageReader ir = (ImageReader) itReaders.next();
System.out.println("ImageReader: " + ir);
System.out.println("IIOMetadata: " + ir.getStreamMetadata());

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Hi, everyone:
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Thanks in advance.

Hi, everyone:
My name is Edison, I am playing with Gif89Encoder utility classes to make an animated gif which is a requirement for my course work.
I got some problem about the transparent frames. I used the png image as the frame to create the animated gif,
those pngs have transparent colors and the background is totally transparent, when i create the animated the gif with those
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I am not sure if I should IndexGif89Frame or DirectGif89Frame for the colors from the Gif89encoder package.
Is there anyone got the same problem and knows how to fix it?
The following is how i setup the colors in my png file, the alpha channel is 80.
Color[] colours = new Color[7];
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 colours[2] = new Color(128, 0, 128, 80);
 colours[3] = new Color(0, 128, 128, 80);
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 try{
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 images[2] = ImageIO.read(new File("D:/temp/2.png"));
 images[3] = ImageIO.read(new File("D:/temp/3.png"));
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 images = null;
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 Image[] still_images,
 String annotation,
 boolean looped,
 double frames_per_second,
 OutputStream out) throws IOException
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 for (int i = 0; i < still_images.length; ++i){
 gifenc.addFrame(still_images);
gifenc.setComments(annotation);
gifenc.setLoopCount(looped ? 0 : 1);
gifenc.setUniformDelay((int) Math.round(100 / frames_per_second));
gifenc.encode(out);
Thanks in advance.

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can someone help me out or even let me know if this is possible

What you want to do (create a .gif using QT Pro) can't be done. QuickTime can open .gif files (even preserve transparency) but the saved file will be .mov.
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Select Open Image Sequence, navigate to this new folder and highlight (single-click) the first file in the list. Click OK and select a "frame rate" for the new file.
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Here's what happened with screenshots:
1. I load the uncompressed AVI file that was created in Adobe After Effects CS5.5 into Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5. Note below that Adobe Media Encoder is saying that the source clip is 23.976 fps, and that the export settings are to create an animated GIF at 23.976 fps.
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As can be seen above, Adobe After Effects CS5.5 is saying the GIF file that Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5 has just encoded is actually 25 fps, not 23.976 fps like I told it to be exported as. Also, the GIF Adobe Media Encoder has created is 10 frames long, whereas my original uncompressed AVI is 9 frames long.
Edit: I've just been reading up on the GIF format and it seems it doesn't store a frame rate but instead stores a frame delay, which is in hundredths of a second. If this is just an integer, is this the reason for the displayed frame rate discrepancy, ie. 1 frame at 23.976 fps would be 4.1708 hundredths of a second I think, and 1 frame at 25 fps would be 4 hundredths of a second I think - both rounded to the nearest integer would be 4 hundredths of a second so would the frame delay be set to "4" for both 23.976 fps and 25 fps? (there is also the fact that some short time will be taken for the drawing of the frame)
Though even with the above, it shouldn't be increasing the amount of output frames. It converts it correctly (no additional frames) if I use VirtualDub to convert the AVI to GIF instead of Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5.

Thanks. Could you get them to also check other parts of the code too. eg. when I had a work area set in Adobe After Effects CS5.5 and then loaded that project into Adobe Media Encoder (dynamic link etc.) and rendered just the work area I think it was about a frame out then too - I don't think it was a GIF in that case but another type (maybe AVI/H264).

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I'm trying to make an animated gif using Photoshop Elements 4.0.
I have numerous images (photos) that I need to insert into separate frames of one image.
(photo1, photo2 ..... photo10 - all combined in layers to create the frames of the animated gif)
I can open each photo separately, copy it, go the the animated gif image, create a new layer, and paste the image into the layer to create a frame in the animated gif. This is very time consuming.
Does Elements 4.0 allow for just opening/importing the separate images (photos) into the layers (frames) of the gif direclty? I remember having software that came with Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0 in 2000 that made this simple and straight forward.

We are not the right people to ask. The Touch forum (for tablet) is at
Adobe Photoshop Touch for tablet
There's a long list f video tutorials here, but I can't see anything about animation
Learn Photoshop Touch | Adobe TV

Creating a gif with images

I am using CS6 and I need to create a simple GIF using three images. This GIF should step through these three images. Is there a help file or tutorial that can show me how to do this?

Robert Leffel wrote:
> As for building sites in Fireworks, I have created many
sites using only
> Fireworks that my clients have loved and used for a long
time. Granted, these
> are not in depth sites with rich interactive content,
but they served their
> purpose. Fireworks is my tool. Yours is Dreamweaver.
That is why I am here.
> If you need help with Fireworks, I would be more than
happy to help!
>
Okay. (Sighing.)
WHERE do you want this scrollable box to go?
What you have now is the equivalent of a giant page.
Websites are usually constructed out of a set of boxes
(containers).
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| header |
| n | |
| a | content |
| v | |
| footer |
Your page is a bit unusual having the navigation at the
bottom,but as
long as it's not appearing below the fold on some people's
monitors,I
guess that's not a big problem. But what I'm trying to
illustrate is
that you can't just cut a hole in your gif to make a space
for the box.
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to show you
how to change your code.
But the real issue is still that your workflow is all wrong
for a
normal, functioning website. (Having been negative about
that, the
pages LOOK really good!) But there's no text for search
engines to
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text to be.
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NW04s
NB. This can not be done through the Theme Editor.
I am trying to change the content separator bar that sits between the 1st level navigation and the toolbar. I located the stylesheet that refers to the gif then traced it to its location in <Drive>:\...\j2ee\cluster\server0\apps\sap.com\irj\servlet_jsp\irj\root\portalapps\com.sap.portal.design.portaldesigndata\themes\portal\
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1. Backup original GIF, rename to .bak. Create new GIF and name it same (separator.gif). No change initially, but then after another refresh 10mins later, there was white space where the GIF was. New GIF was not recognised by the Portal? (It was named exactly as the original.)
2. Delete new GIF, rename original to separator.gif. Changed blue to black in Paint, save. Portal pulls gif but the colour is changed back to blue(!). Check gif - yep, image is blue. Try this again to make sure I'm not going mad; same result.
3. Create new image and name it ContSeparator.gif. Place in same location as separator.gif. Edit stylesheet (prtl_ie6.css) in Dreamweaver to reference ContSeparator.gif. Save. Refresh Portal. No change. Wait some time (due to original change taking so long - about 15mins), refresh again - still no change. Go back and check code in stylesheet. Code has reverted to referencing "separator.gif". My changes were overwritten.
What am I doing wrong? I am changing the files in my personalised theme, not any of the SAP defaults. Am I using the wrong editor? I am changing the files on the server disk, not in the Theme DB (can that be done?) Will my changes be overwritten everytime? I am creating my theme, while doing this on the side: I am saving chnages to theme after making changes sometimes. Could this be a problem? I've read about saves overwriting, but can not ascertain what version of EP the people are running. Perhaps I am not trouble-shooting this problem properly, however, any general information/rules relating to NW04s and CSS changes is appreciated.
Please note that I am not an expert. I'm learning CSS today and I'm teaching myself Theme Editing also.
Thanks,
Tammi
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Tammi Atherton

Hi Michael -
Thanks for you reply. Thanks for letting me know that I'm facing a tricky problem too; makes me feel a bit less of a dunce. I was hoping this was something others have encountered and isn't as random as to cause patching/upgrading/etc issues; guess I was wrong.
I'm finding it difficult to understand why something so obvious is not editable. Not even documented.
I've read discussions on editing the stylesheets and guess my next question is: Is doing this supported by SAP? If so, which stylesheets are used by the Portal? The ones on the server? Or are they held in a database in the EP itself? I'd really appreciate it if you could at least shed some light on the location of the theme files used, even if you write in big bold letters, changing these stylesheets is not supported or recommended by SAP.
My latest attempt at changing this gif involved exporting my theme through Sys Admin > Portal Display > Theme Archive, changing the gif in an editor, saving, then rezipping and trying to import theme (overwriting existing) back into EP. Came up with an error: "An exception occurred while processing the request; see log for details." Still trying to figure out where the log is... HA!
Once again, thanks.
Tammi

Co-workers using CS3, I'm getting CS4. File incompatibilities?

I work with two graphic artists that use CS3. I will most likely be purchasing a new iMac this weekend and I'm assuming that I will only have CS4 available to buy unless I look for CS3 on ebay or something.
Will there be many file incompatibilities if I'm using CS4 while the other artists are using CS3? Example, if I create something in CS4 will I need to downsave to CS3 so the other artists can open it - or will that even be necessary?
Are there any other issues that could arise?
Thanks in advance!
Daryl

Don't be embarrassed - I had to ask a co-worker just to make sure before I
told you. They have to do the same for me - except they are saving cs3 files
down to cs1.
Anyway, it should work the same for your daughter...
First thing I would do is make a copy of the file for safe-keeping. After
she has done this select all the fonts (if there are any) and go to "Type >
Create Outlines." This will keep the fonts from being substituted for a
different font when you convert from c34 to 3. However, you can't retype
over the fonts once this is done (hence making a copy of the file).
I always keep two versions of a file. One with the type intact and one with
the type converted to outlines.
Now - to save down to cs3....
With the file open (the one converted to outlines) - Go to ³File > Save As
Save² then click the dropdown next to ³Version² and select Illustrator
CS3. That should do it.
Please don't hesitate to email back if you need more help or have a
question.
Daryl

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Hi,
I would like to know if there's a possibility to create/upload folios using code or scripting, for example using InDesignServer.
Maybe there's a SDK available for the Digital Publishing Suite?
Thanks

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