About Richard Moose Expertise I can answer any question about using Paint Shop Pro including, but not limited to, how to make fancy lettering, how to use layers, how to use gradients and textures, how to make 3D effects, how to make animated gifs, how and when to use vector graphics, how to choose the best format for your graphics, how to understand all the options and tools, how to retouch photographs, how to find and use filters, how to correctly understand resolution, dpi, and display size. I can answer all questions about graphics for different applications such as logos, magazines, the web, newspapers, flyers, brochures, and I have extensive knowledge of high resolution 3D graphics for posters and other types of promotional materials. I`ve used Paint Shop Pro to create video and film titles and credits as well as using it for "post production" fine tuning of graphics made with other applications like Bryce, Poser, and Maya.
Experience I've been using Paint Shop Pro for ten years, starting with version 2.0 and continuing through all releases up to the most current release. I've used it to create graphics for many personal and commercial websites as well as for print publications and film and video titles. I've been helping people use Paint Shop Pro and answering questions about it for over 8 years in my capacity as a Community Leader at a well known web building site and as an expert at question and answer sites on the web. I love helping people use this excellent program!
Question Richard:
Perhaps you can help with this question.
I would like to resize an animated gif,(or select a portion of the image) but need help.
Within PSP 8 it's an easy affair; simply Edit and Copy with the Selection Tool, and Paste the selection as a New Image.
I would like to basically do the same for an animated gif. Would you have any idea how that can be done.
Thanks
Nick M.
Answer Hello Nick,
An animated gif is simply a set of individual gifs that have been saved to a single file, along with information about the display speed and transparency, etc. So to edit the "animated gif" you edit the individual gifs that make up the animation. But before you can do that, you need to take the animation apart and to do that, you need gif animation software that is not part of Paint Shop Pro. You will also need the animation software to put the images back into animated form. The sister application to Paint Shop Pro that does this is called "Animation Shop" and you can find it here:
Once you have the animation broken apart, you can edit it within Animation Shop, or you can bring the individual frames into PSP and edit them there as you normally would and then use the "Wizard" in Animation Shop to reassemble the animation.
Microsoft makes a free gif animator that should also be able to unstack and restack the animation for you. I haven't tried it so I'm afraid you are on your own with that one. You can find it here:
