Editing .gif animations

I was given a number of .gif animations to edit and re-deploy
to the Web. Each anim has about 40 frames. I need to delete 2 small
spots on the image in each frame. I was hoping that I could do a
mass delete that would "take" on all the frames. I couldn't find a
way to do it. I then tried to go to each frame and do it one delete
at-a-time. What i found was that I could see and edit frame 1 but
couldn't advance to the next frame to edit it. What am I doing
wrong?
Thanks,
Al

quote:
Originally posted by:
Gumbo Al
I was given a number of .gif animations to edit and re-deploy
to the Web. Each anim has about 40 frames. I need to delete 2 small
spots on the image in each frame. I was hoping that I could do a
mass delete that would "take" on all the frames. I couldn't find a
way to do it. I then tried to go to each frame and do it one delete
at-a-time. What i found was that I could see and edit frame 1 but
couldn't advance to the next frame to edit it. What am I doing
wrong?
Thanks,
Al
Hi Al,
Without seeing the actual image and knowing what version of
Fireworks you have, it's difficult to give the exact solution.
However, there could be at least two ways you could get this done
with little effort.
If the two spots in question can be covered up instead of
removing, you can create a new top layer in the first frame, draw
some cover graphic directly on the problem spots and share the
layer to all frames. This will essentially hide the problem spots
in all frames throughout the animation.
If the spots can't be easily covered, there is a slightly
more complicated but just as quick method that involves extracting
all frames of the animation into a single layer. Let's see if the
first method works before going into details unnecessarily. :-)
Best luck!
SiamJai
Fireworks Resource
Center

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    it made no difference. Also, I want the background of the
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    Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thankyou.

    HI yankeebrit and welcome to our community
    As for the timing, I'm guessing you have an option in
    Photoshop to determine or configure the speed? I have played with
    an older application called Microsoft GIF Animator and you are able
    to configure the duration of each animation frame there. Often, a
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    As for the background color, I'm guessing that black (or near
    black) is set as the transparent color in Photoshop? I don't
    believe the transparency will come through. So probably the best
    you can do is to set the background color to match whatever you are
    placing the image against.
    Hopefully something here was helpful... Rick

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