animated GIFs for photos?

[Kay Poe webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I am trying to animate some photos but of course I can only animate a GIF and they look awful. I have tried slicing those pics as JPGs but when I optimize and export as animated GIF they go back to looking horrid. any suggestions?

[Anthony MMTS]

Hello,

If you have Dreamweaver, you can achieve simple animation for your Jpeg
images in Dreamweaver. Here some basics of using Timeline in Dreamweaver:

<http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/ts/documents/tlanimation.htm>

I hope this helps.

Anthony F. Dugenia
Technical Support Specialist
Macromedia Technical Support
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"Kay Poe" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I am trying to animate some photos but of course I can only animate a GIF

and they look awful. I have tried slicing those pics as JPGs but when I
optimize and export as animated GIF they go back to looking horrid. any
suggestions?

>
>

[goinon41]

Hi, Kay!
Hate to tell you this, but I think you already know the answer - animated gif is as good as it gets with FW. You should probably look at Flash etc to animate photo-quality jpeg images.
BTW - what kind of animation are you attempting? It may be possible to get the effect you are after using DW animated timelines??? Just a thought!
John Mc

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[Kay Poe webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I will look into a DW timeline--great suggestion. My client doesnt' want Flash because he doesn't have a plug-in and assumes no one does. I got instructions from someone (maybe you?) on how to detect and re-route to a regular HTML page if they don't have a plug-in but it seemed complicated for my new journey into Flash. I'll check out the timelines first; that make work out great.

Thanks.