Timing
You should have all 11
frames in the Gif Animator. Click on the Preview Tab. The default timing is
set at a delay speed of 10. The the animation needs to be timed.
While holding down the
Control Key, click on each frame in the Frame Panel.
Right click and click on
Frame Properties.
The Frame Properties
attribute box will appear. The default is set at 10 delay. Change it to 25 and
click OK.
Click on the Preview Tab
to view the animation.
Personally, I would like
the first part of the animation slower (keeping the lid open longer). By holding
down the Control Key, click on the first three frames. Right click and click on
Duplicate Frames. The duplicates will appear right after the first three
frames. The timing for the lid is delayed just a bit longer now. The animation
now consists of 14 frames.
Optimizing
Once you're satisfied with
your animation you'll need to optimize it. Go to File, Optimization Wizard.
Click through the wizard at the default settings until you come to Number of Colors.
Put in 32 colors. Keep clicking on Next and then Finish. The Gif Optimization
Result Box will open up. You will see the number of bytes of the optimized
animation. Click on Preview to view your animation. If you're satisfied,
click on Save As and save it.
Tips:
There is a dramatic difference in the size of this animation when copying and pasting the
frames into GA5 (40,120 bytes) vs. saving each frame and importing each with the
Animation Wizard (157,364 bytes).
By adding a few more
frames, playing with delay settings, duplicating and reversing the frame order in selected
frames, you can modify your animation as shown here which consists of 26 frames.
Keep in mind the more
frames you have, the amount of bytes are increased making your animation much
larger. This one came out to 63,390 bytes. I resized it smaller to bring it
down to 35,596 bytes.
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I hope you've enjoyed this
tutorial.
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