how can I freeze a gif and copy just one of the frames?

[Kali]

a 10 shot gif that is kind of a slide show, not an animation - I want to look closer at one of the pictures but I can't figure out how to stop it other than looking at it in another viewer but if I do that it only locks in on the first picture in the sequence and I can't view the others at all. arrgghh I'm a moron! help please?

edit: ok I tried a screen cap and put it in paint, not the greatest resolution but at least I could look at it for more than 3 seconds.

[amerikat]

1. I haven't tried this program myself but

maybe it'll work for you.

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-extract-frames-from-gif-animation-image/

[amerikat]

2. I downloaded it

to much bull crap comes with it. I'll try to find a better gif program.

[Kali]

5. thanks for looking

not a big deal - I had no idea there wasn't some easy way to separate out the individual files...I'm learning!

[MrScorpio]

3. If you have a Mac, like I do

Drag and drop the gif onto your desktop, then open it in Preview

All the frames are there.

[Kali]

4. well I have a pc, but I did put it on my desktop and look at it in

windows version of "preview" - that gives me the whole set in the rotation I want to stop, if I look at it in a couple other viewers (paint or nero) I just get the first photo frozen - can't look at the others (or at least I can't figure out how)

so what I did was open in preview and waited for the shot I wanted and did a screen capture of it and stuck that in a new paint document - at least I can see what I was looking for but there must be an easier way to "deconstruct" the thing

[noamnety]

6. I would wrap it tightly in plastic wrap

and then put it in a ziploc bag, otherwise you'll risk freezer burn.

(if you want to pm me a link, I can open it in photoshop and upload the frame(s) you want.)

[Kali]

8. oh thanks!

eh, I got it to the point where I could see what I needed to see, now I'm just curious about the process.

I know Ptah had taken a couple of the animated smily gifs from here and somehow changed the properties so when he posted say several of the woo hoo guys in one post they would jump out of sequence, instead of all at the same time. I thought maybe it was some easy thing to tweak. So you need photoshop or something like that to create them?

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Ptah]

14. hunter has a great suggestion.:

http://www.irfanview.com/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=9732390&mesg_id=9733032

[noamnety]

7. ugh duplicate post

oops

[TorchTheWitch]

9. you need a program to deal with animated gifs

There are a number of free ones. These programs allow you to see an animated gif frame by frame, extract or add frames and allow you to make animated gifs of your own.

If all you want to do is look at one specific frame and each frame changes slowly enough (like a gif to display an array of photos) you can always do a screen capture when the frame you want to look at more closely is displaying and open the screen capture in whatever photo program you have.

[krispos42]

10. Pressing "esc" while the gif is in your browser will freeze it.

Try it out on this one right here:

:banghead:


;-)

[Lucinda]

11. Microsoft Gif animator is a freebie and will open them

http://www.megaiq.com/downloads.htm

You can see the animation frame by frame. From there you can copy the frame you want to see by selecting it, then ctrl C - and paste it into another graphics program to use.
ctrl C copies and ctrl V pastes.

[pokerfan]

12. GIMP

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free (open-source) graphics editor with functionality similar to Photoshop.

Animated Gifs look like a bunch of layers in gimp. Open the animation with gimp. Use the dialogue box to move each layer to the top. Copy/paste the layers you want.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP

[hunter]

13. You want irfanview. It's the Swiss Army Knife of PC graphic conversion.

http://www.irfanview.com

Use: Options>Extract all frames

On edit, just remembered, you're on dialup?

I found this:

http://www.xoyosoft.com/gs/index.htm

Don't know anything about it, but as a 37k download maybe it's worth a shot.

[Kali]

15. thanks everybody

it's always so great getting info from this place. I may have to learn how to make some of these - that could be fun.