How to create gifs?
 

What's a good program to create animations?

I use GIF Construction Set Professional

http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Any others?

are there any good opensource ones?

or at least freeware

Any others?

Adobe ImageReady or Flash

Yikes to Image Ready...Flash doesn't make animated GIF's :winkwink:

Ulead GIF Animator ROCKS. Try and find version 3.0...it's the best they ever made. It's all I use for animated gif's.

flash makes great animated gifs'

but with animators its all about the interface and plugins..

I like ulead as a basic one, but it doesnt offer much..

you can do animated gifs with flash with no problems, only you need to go to expert setting and select gif and then on the gif menu set it to animated

O'Rly? I guess my 100's of animated banners I've made don't exist.:upsidedow

Lately I've been usin' Gamani's GIF Movie Gear.

Their descrip:

By relying on substance instead of hype, GIF Movie Gear makes GIF animation building quick and easy. It is not a bloated, slow, complicated app that is a chore to use. What it is is small, fast, and efficient. It gives you the tools you need to get the job done cleanly and effectively. The superior interface shows all the frames of the animation at once, making it easy to see what you are working on. Top quality optimization and color reduction functions keep your file sizes down. Fine-tuning of timing, transparency, cropping, sizing and color palettes is trivial. A variety of import/export options, including GIF, AVI, BMP, JPEG, ICO, PNG and layered Photoshop PSD files, support most common image formats. And the built-in tutorial helps you get started in no time.

(edit) the banner below was created with MovieGear...