Gif With Animation



You need a subdirectory. Note: When I made this tutorial, I did it on Pagebuilder and you have to use the "gray style" page to use as a subdirectory. Give it a name and you can use it for this project. You will change dimensions to suit your gif and words if need be. Use a background of a color that is not in your gif. I used limegreen. Sized it 125x100. Now get the url for the angel

For printers convenience: http://www.wtv-zone.com/MsLee/ImAgEs/angelbtflysm.gif


1. Composite the angel North West +0+0Now go to Annotate I used - "You Have Mail" putting the words under each other in the box. Northeast +24+30 Text - "royalblue" size 20 Font style Hancock Rotate (minus) -30 AnnotateOutput - Gif -Single File Upload to your subdirectory.

Now go back to Image Magick and put the background back in with the composited angel. Put in all the same figures as the first one except the words will now say: "From Lee" Here's a shortcut:

I use my "back" button to get to the same spot where I annotated the first one and just have to erase the words "You Have Mail" and leave everything the same and then Annotate - upload etc. Isn't that cool?

Saves a lot of work of starting it from scratch again.

Now you have 2 gifs in your subdirectory. Go back to Image Magick and now put in the url of the sub-directory. Make sure at the end of the url you use a slash (/). That's important. Output using Gif and MultiFile this time so it will animate. Then scroll down and put in the Delay box 100 Loop -0That's it. Output and take it to Gifworks - Optimize - Transparatize the background Upload to your subdirectory.

You can now delete the first 2 gifs and keep the final one.


Good luck.

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