Single frame of animated gif

Is there a way to isolate a single frame of an animated gif, to send in an email?
Can I use "Preview" to do this?

Drag the GIF onto the QuickTime Player icon in the
Dock; you can then go through the GIF until you find
the frame you want, and take a screenshot of that
frame with the Shift, Command, and 4 keyboard
shortcut.
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Well, yes, I can make a screenshot, just from a frame from Preview, too. I was hoping that there would be a way to copy a frame directly from the gif.
I'll just go with a screenshot for now.
Thanks for replying.

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I have a 20 PNG sequences (each with 8 images) that I would like to combine into a single Animated GIF. That's 160 frames, which adds up to 00:00:05:10 on my timeline. After Effects shows the proper number of frames when they are arranged in sequence.
When I attempt to render the GIF, however, After Effects drops 12 frames in the final output, giving me a total of only 148. This was confirmed when I re-imported the animated GIF back into After Effects; its duration was only 00:00:04:28. The frames appear to be getting pulled from all over the GIF, with no apparent pattern.
I need all 160 frames because I am eventually going to convert them to a sprite sheet for a game (I have a program that will convert GIFs into sprite sheets). I've attached a copy of the sprite sheet that I just exported from the GIF; notice that 12 frames are missing.
Does anyone know why AE would remove frames like this?

The After Effects forum would be a good place to ask. This is just a general animation forum that is read by only 13 people.

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I have created an animated gif in Photoshop CS5 and want to add a url to one of the 3 frames as this gif is going on a website as a banner advert.
I've read that I can use the slice tool to do this (?), but if so, I need help in laymans language as to how to do this. Or should I be doing it a different way. I dont have fireworks, flash, illustrator etc, just photoshop cs5.
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The Slice tool will divide an image into sections. These sections are not temporal, that is they cannot be time or frame based. They are physical structures, so you can make the bottom half have a URL displayed, and attach the HTML code to make that URL a clickable link. But this is all handled by HTML code. When you use the Slice Tool in combination with File > Save for Web and Devices, your output is not just the GIF file, but a full HTML web page that places the images (each slice will be a separate image file) so that it appears as a single image, with separate areas having URL link code attached.
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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,
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I am not sure if I should IndexGif89Frame or DirectGif89Frame for the colors from the Gif89encoder package.
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          colours[3] = new Color(0, 128, 128, 80);
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Color[] colours = new Color[7];
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A mystery: Animated GIF not displaying correctly.

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I made a Google search and I found tips that Photoshop can open frames from animated gif files by using File->Import->Video Frames to Layers. But this menu is missing from Photoshop CS4 on the computer I'm using it. Searching this forum for "Import animated gif" didn't return any result. Any ideas?

Zeno
curt y, sorry for the late reply, I tried that but I doesn't work. I have to choose at least two files in the Load Layers window in order for the OK button to be available and then some action script uses the different files to make layers and merges them but not from the frames of the gif file. I can undo through the script to see what it did but it never accessed the frames of the gif file, just the first frame. Choosing "make frames from layers" in the animation palette only puts the original files into layers - that is only the first frame of the gif file.
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I was a little frustrated at first, because whatever I did, it still took a year and exported the entire video.
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Share Work area Bar Only
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movie windows projector' images that i would love to convert into
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I'd like to load a GIF image and be able to show the different frames any time I want. No animation, no order. Just do somthing like:
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