Re: Editing GIFs

["Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM>]

Well, Image Composer has a "save as" option for GIF. It's what I use most
often.

Paintshop Pro does, too. I assume that Photoshop must as well. Many
shareware programs don't due to licensing issues. GIF is a proprietary
format, and you can't just write a program to create GIF files, you have to
obtain a license.

GIFs are bitmap type files, and there isn't any way to convert them back to
anything but other bitmap formats, unless you are doing something odd, like
OCR, to them. If you have an object oriented or vector based graphic source,
I'd suggest keeping a source copy and a GIF copy of the results.

One of the cool things about GIF is that it is a lossless compression. With
some graphic formats (the most common one being JPEG) you lose a little
quality every time you load and save a graphic. Not so with GIF.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Sering [SMTP:rsering -at- USWEST -dot- COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 8:09 AM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Editing GIFs
>
> I queried the archives for this, and found several postings for
> converting from X file format to .GIF, but found nothing about editing
> .GIF files. I have tried MS Image Composer without success. I have
> several .GIF files on an Intranet site that need correction, but so far
> have not found a tool to edit them. Would Photoshop do it? Is the
> conversion to GIF a one-way trip to Bitmapville? (it's a suburb of
> Flatland...)
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks!
>
> - Ron Sering
>
>
> ~