Flash movies are generally of smaller memory than animated gifs. To convert it open your gif in Flash and export it as a swf.įlash has several advantages over GIF. Your animation can also be exported as a Flash movie. When the file has been saved, open your favorite Web browser, select File - Open, and locate your new animated GIF. Select File - Export Wizard - continue - animated gif - export - and specify the location on your hard drive to which you'd like to save the animation. Choosing that the animation loops a number of times will not increase the size of the file - it will just loop the number of times you asked it to. If you select the GIF Animation looping button, you'll open a drop down menu of animation looping options - whether or not you want the animation to repeat. The default time is 20/100 of a second, but you can change this speed manually to whatever you want.Īlong the bottom of the Frames Inspector you'll see a GIF Animation looping button, which is set by default to "No Looping". Double clicking any single frame's timing will open the properties for the frame. The play back speed of each frame can be controlled from the Frames Inspector. To do that select the layer and drag it within the table. Your background layer has to be the lowest layer - and therefore it needs to be moved below you animation layer. Layers near the top of the layer window are seen on top of the ones lower down. Selecting this checkbox will share any objects in this layer throughout the animation. Now tick the box under the layer name labelled "Share Across Frames". Then, from the Layers Inspector, double click on the layer named "layer 2." The layers dialog box opens, allowing the name of the layer to be changed. If this is the first layer that has been created, it'll be called "layer 2". it will then appear.Īdd a new layer.The shortcut for that is at the bottom of the Layers Inspector. If it is not - go to 'Window' on the top menu bar and tick the Layers selection. This should be on the right hand side of your page. The only caveat with this feature is that the layer has to be shared throughout every frame of an animation, so groups of frames cannot be selected to share a layer. This is a real time saver! Shared LayersĪn image can also be shared through out an animation - this is very useful for backgrounds that must appear on every frame. The new frames are created in the order in which the original graphics were created. Then from the Frames Inspector box select "Distribute to Frames" from the botton of the box - it looks like a strip of film.Īnd 'Hey presto!' the circles will all be put in consecutive frames at the position you c hose. This will highlight all the circles that you've created. Now, press Select from the top menu and choose 'Select All' from the drop down menu. New copies of the circle will be created each time the mouse button is released while the ALT key is held down.
Holding the key down drag the pointer to the position you want a new circle and then release the mouse button. On the stage draw a circle, and with the ALT key held down, select the cicle with your mouse.
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This allows you to create a series of identical graphics in different places on consecutive frames.Ĭreate a new file in Fireworks. You can use copy and paste to add items to frames - that saves time - but there is an even better way! The default is 1 new frame, which appears directly after the current frame. Selecting "Add Frames." will open a dialog box that will ask you how many frames you would like to add, and where in the animation you would like to have them appear. Therefore a ny animation must contain two or more frames.įrames can be added by selecting "Add Frames." from the Frames Properties (the small arrow in the top right hand corner of the inspector).
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it will then appear.Ī 'frame' is like a cel in a movie - the frames are played one after another to make the animation. If it is not - go to 'Window' on the top menu bar and tick the Frames selection. The most important tool for creating animation is the ' Frames Inspector'. To make more advanced animations or interactive documents you need to use Flash.įireworks provides a series of tools that enable an animated gif to be created quicky. Fireworks can be used as a simple Animation Tool.
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