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DSMcDonough
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 Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:42 am Post subject: Adding a .gif to a .jpg |
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Hey everyone.
I'm working on a website for our facility and I'm trying to put an animated .gif flag on the flagpole in a .jpg. I have no problem getting the .gif image on there it's just that the .gif won't animate when I save the picture and add it to my web page.
Is there any way to combine the two pictures and keep the .gif animated?
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Matt
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Hi there
You either have to save an image as a GIF or as a JPEG, JPEG's are best suited to to photographic images but can't support animation or transparancy. GIF files are best for images that contain large blocks of colour but can only support a maximum of 256 colour variations. You can't embed one format into another but you can create one image using Photoshop and then slice it up using the slice tool, followed by optimizing the various slices using different optimization settings.
Hope this helps
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DSMcDonough
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You can't embed one format into another...
That's what I was looking for. 
Oh well, I'll have to take a different route. Thanks for the response! |
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Matt
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If you really want a great quality photograph with animation then Flash is a good alternative!
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DSMcDonough
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How would you go about doing that? That is exactly what I want to do. |
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Matt
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Grab the slice tool from the tools palette and drag around the flag. This will slice up the image into a number of 'parts'. Now if you go to File>Save for web and devices you can optimize each slice with different settings - so you can save the flag as a GIF and the other slices as JPEG's.
Just keep in mind that when you export you're going to end up with an image per slice, you can generate the html code to place them back together again or do this manually.
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