Adding Gifs to Jpegs

[Ilene Chait]

I want to put my animated gif logo on a jpeg image.
Can this be done in Image Ready?
Thanx in advance to all who reply. :>)

[Mac McDougald]

You can change gif to RGB mode, copy/paste (or drag) the image into
another existing RGB image with Photoshop, but you can't animate a JPEG.

Mac

[Daryl Pritchard]

Ilene,

If what you are doing is for use on the web, then an approach you might try is to place your JPEG into your web page by creating a table and specifying that the JPEG is used either as the table background image or as a cell's background image. Then, insert your GIF logo into the table and use paragraph formatting or cell size adjustments to position it as you want.

This would all be peformed in your HTML editor rather than in ImageReady.

Hope that helps,

Daryl

[Phosphor]

JPEG doesn't support animation, so I'll assume you want to overlay this animation onto a background JPEG on your website.

If I'm correct in my assumption, you'll need to do this using HTML coding.

If you just want one non-moving frame of your animated logo to overlay a JPEG background image, then follow Mac's advice.

[Ilene Chait]

Actually, I want to use it as a signature to put inside my emails. Not webpages.
There must be some way I can do that.

[Trevor Morris]

Use z-indexed DIVs or slices to accomplish this. The slice method would require you to slice the JPG such that you create an appropriately-sized hole for the intended GIF.

[Daryl Pritchard]

Ilene,

About the only way I can imagine this working in e-mail is if you use HTML formatting for your e-mail and still make use of the suggestions mentioned here. As stated earlier, you cannot combine an animated GIF (or any GIF) into a JPEG, without the end result being a JPEG. The only way to maintain the animation is to keep the GIF intact by way of layering it over the JPEG in some HTML page.

Regards,

Daryl

[Don McCahill]

Well, she could slice the image, using JPG for most of the slices, and place the GIF in the area needed.

Easy if you know HTML code, perhaps a bit more challenging if you don't.