Newbie Question: How to Save Changes to Animated Gif Without Ruining?

Here's a newbie question as I don't know how to use animated Gif.

I want to add words to an animated Gif but everytime I try, it ruins the animation. What program do I need to use to make these changes? Any advice?

The 1st attached image is the animated gif working correctly before I try to change it.
The 2nd attached image is the ruined animated gif after I've add words to it.
Thanks!

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  • WatchOutWatchOut Advanced User VPS - Virtual Prince of the Server
    Have you tried photoshop?
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  • LurkinBackLurkinBack Senior Member The Royal RAM
    With the little experience I've had with GIF's I've found it's easier to start again rather than amend an old one :banghead:
  • DeluxeNamesDeluxeNames Admin Administrator
    WatchOut wrote: »
    Have you tried photoshop?

    Not yet, thanks WatchOut.
    LurkinBack wrote: »
    With the little experience I've had with GIF's I've found it's easier to start again rather than amend an old one
    Thanks lurk, I might have to :o
  • WatchOutWatchOut Advanced User VPS - Virtual Prince of the Server
    Ok, you should try i think it might work.
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  • xPureNLxxPureNLx Moderator The Royal RAM
    Animated gifs can be created with Adobe Imageready, which comes together with the Adobe Photoshop Suite... It's basically the same as a Fla and a SWF, standard you can not edit the SWF, you can edit the Fla though, in other words:

    The final product can't be edited standard, the RAW can. Consider the Animated Gif as a final product...

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  • NuvoNuvo Forum Leader VPS - Virtual Prince of the Server
    Your problem there seems to be that:
    1: You're not using an application which can edit animated GIF files.
    2: You're saving with a lower quality setting, which is causing the loss of detail and overall graininess.

    The GIMP can open animated GIF files and it splits the frames down into layers (like Photoshop layers), meaning it makes editing frames within the image easier.
    GIMP saves GIF files using each layer as a frame unless you tell it to merge the layers into one image (since GIF doesn't handle layers).
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  • DeluxeNamesDeluxeNames Admin Administrator
    Thanks Nuvo and xPure!

    Nuvo, with Gimp, can the final product be edited? Or just the RAW can be edited like in Photoshop imageready?
  • NuvoNuvo Forum Leader VPS - Virtual Prince of the Server
    I'm pretty sure that it doesn't save it so that it can be edited like a .PSD or Fireworks .PNG as that would make the images unsuitable for some things such as web use where the extra data needed to record what goes where would increase the size of the file.
    It's more logical to have you save as a file type such as .PSD as well as exporting to an animated .GIF as that would negate the file size issue while still allowing you to easily edit the image contents.
    This is why applications like Fireworks have both .PNG saving and .PNG exporting (since Fireworks uses .PNG files to save editable images, though these can stil be viewed as normal .PNG images).
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  • DeluxeNamesDeluxeNames Admin Administrator
    Nuvo wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure that it doesn't save it so that it can be edited like a .PSD or Fireworks .PNG as that would make the images unsuitable for some things such as web use where the extra data needed to record what goes where would increase the size of the file.
    It's more logical to have you save as a file type such as .PSD as well as exporting to an animated .GIF as that would negate the file size issue while still allowing you to easily edit the image contents.
    This is why applications like Fireworks have both .PNG saving and .PNG exporting (since Fireworks uses .PNG files to save editable images, though these can stil be viewed as normal .PNG images).

    Ah! Thanks Nuvo
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