How to create a gif in a thread on the forum

[bernardos]

I would like to know how to create a gif from a picture?
You can see an example below.
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ibb.co%2F19TPLzW%2Fcontent2.gif&t=601&c=IuaPW_wstj43LQ

I am translating a thread where that picture is posted.
When I download that picture and translate the content into my language how do I turn that picture into a gif again?

[TryNinja]

You can do that on Photoshop.

Search “How to edit a gif on Photoshop” on YouTube.

[joniboini]

You can also ask for the source file (not the gif one), it should make your life easier, though I doubt any project would provide it to you.

Another tool to edit gif that other than Photoshop is Wondershare (never used it). It's free (at least that's what they said on their website).

You can also use GIMP though it's a pain in the ass.

[khaled0111]

Importing GIF files into Photoshop is a little bit hard for beginners and inexperienced users.
ImageReady is the most suitable program for such kind of tasks. It is easy to use, just import the image and it will split it in frames so you can edit them one by one without the need to ask for the source file.

[nc50lc]

I usually create the "base image" using Photoshop or ClipStudio Paint then make alterations as the next frame until I created the desired number of frames (about 60 images for 60fps 1sec image).
Example folder of the images:


Then either use the same app to create an aPNG/GIF image using those images
or go to this site and upload the images to create an animated PNG based from those images.
This will be the result:

Another tool to edit gif that other than Photoshop is Wondershare (never used it). It's free (at least that's what they said on their website).

I got a very bad experience with Wondershare, the app doesn't have any virus upon installation but the additional downloads like themes and plugins have (lucky *** trojan horse) and it's such a headache to remove it.

[unsoindovo]

I would like to know how to create a gif from a picture?
You can see an example below.
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ibb.co%2F19TPLzW%2Fcontent2.gif&t=601&c=IuaPW_wstj43LQ

I am translating a thread where that picture is posted.
When I download that picture and translate the content into my language how do I turn that picture into a gif again?

i suggest you to split the image.
One animated and one fixed.
On the fixed one will be easy to translate text.
Then you can join it using table BBCODE in bitcointalk thread.
Something like this:

Code:

[table]
[tr]
[td]Name[/td]
[td]Age[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]John[/td]
[td]65[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Gitte[/td]
[td]40[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Sussie[/td]
[td]19[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

the result:

Name	Age
John	65
Gitte	40
Sussie	19

[bernardos]

It turns out I had the original source file the whole time, I just didnt know about it. I didnt know that you could open a .pdf file in Photoshop and edit the text that way. After that I just used the option save for web in .gif format and everything was good. 

@unsoindovo Sorry I didnt understand your post at all. 

I noticed that it is not possible to edit .gif files in Photoshop. So if I didnt have the source file and download the .gif from the thread I wouldnt be able to edit that gif in Photoshop. I think I would have to export it into .jpeg or .png to be able to edit it but once I do that the gif animations are gone.

Is there a way to insert those animations back into the picture after I am done with the editing? 

[nc50lc]

Is there a way to insert those animations back into the picture after I am done with the editing?  

If you want to edit a GIF image, you need to edit each frame and save it using any gif animation compatible software.

Try this instead:

• Go to: https://ezgif.com/split and upload the GIF image, then click "Split to Frames!".
• Download the extracted frames and edit them one by one using Photoshop.
• Next using the same Website, click "GIF Maker" tab.
• Choose all the edited images and click "Upload and make a GIF image".
• From there, select the delay for each images (in milliseconds) and other settings of your choice.
• Click "Make a GIF!" and it it's done!

Even if it's just a small portion of the image is moving, the non-moving parts still belong to each frame, not just the animated parts.

[bernardos]

nc50lc thank you for your tip. Lets say I want to edit a text in the first frame. Do I need to make changes to the text in every single frame? In my example above there is at least 30 different frames. Is it possible to just make changes to only one frame?

[nc50lc]

nc50lc thank you for your tip. Lets say I want to edit a text in the first frame. Do I need to make changes to the text in every single frame? In my example above there is at least 30 different frames. Is it possible to just make changes to only one frame?

Yes, sadly, you have to.

But I'm thinking of a workaround like adding an overlay which contains the edited text that perfectly blends to the background.
This requires a video editing software and temporarily converting the GIF into a video format.

• Go to the same site and click the "GIF to MP4" tab.
• Convert then download the converted video format.
• Create an image with the text that will be used as overlay and place it on top of the texts that should be edited.
• Now, if the software supports save as GIF, use it. Otherwise, use the "Video to GIF" tab in the website to convert it back to GIF.

It's up to you to choose which is the better solution, but since you have Photoshop, editing them one by one can be done easily by including all the frames as layers and disable them all except for the first image.
Next, do the edit on a transparent newly created upper-most layer, lock it after finishing the edit and save.
To create the second frame, disable the previous first layer and enable the second layer, then save.
Do the same to the third to the thirtieth.

[bernardos]

A really lengthy process just to get a little gif to spin around 
I am starting to have much more respect for graphic designers. If it takes this much hassle to get a little coin to spin with a few lines of text next to it I cant even imagine what needs to be done for more serious image editing.