Can Photoshop or PSP join GIFs?

Is it possible to join GIFs in either Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro?

If so, then how is it done?

"Waraf Nido" wrote in message

Is it possible to join GIFs in either Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro?
If so, then how is it done?

Yes and no. Technically there no.longer gifs when loaded into a Graphics editor. But how do you wish to join them, side by side or embed them into one another. For side by side create a new image with twice the width or height as the biggest gif then copy paste each gif into it and adjust with the mover tool and or the deform tool. Some tools should you wish to use them will require that you increase to colour depth to 16 mill. but when you use the gif optimizer you will drop it back to 256. If there animated gif you will lose the animation if opened in psp but not if opened in animation shop but adding two animations together is a whole new ball game

"Waraf Nido" wrote in message

Is it possible to join GIFs in either Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro?
If so, then how is it done?

If you mean in an animation, yes, at least with Photoshop and ImageReady. Jasc has Animation Shop. You can open any animated GIF in ImageReady and get access to every individual frame. You can then jump to Photoshop (CTRL+SHFT+M) and play with it even more. If you try to open it in Photoshop, you will only get the first frame and nothing else.

You can create your own animations in Photoshop and ImageReady. Prep in Photoshop, animate in ImageReady.

But if all you want to do is join two static GIFs, you will have to change color mode from index to RGB. Index doesn't support multiple layers. You will need to change the canvas size too.

Peadge :-)

If you have animation shop, and these are animated gifs you are talking about, you can open each animation and save all the individual frames. Then you can edit the individual frames in your graphics editor ae.. Paint Shop Pro. Then you can reassemble the animation in any combination you like. Either with newly created combined images, or the original frames.

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:59:57 GMT, Waraf Nido
wrote:

Is it possible to join GIFs in either Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro?
If so, then how is it done?

I use Paint Shop Pro for my .gif editing and PSP does a very good job. However what you are asking requires a bit more detailed instructions but you can think of it like adding your cartoon to another's cartoon.

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