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Can anyone help me make an animated picture. Im not talking about a cartoon person but take like the scene of a movie and put it in a picture? Like this he took a WWII movie and inserted it in a picture. I have adobe photoshop CS2 if that helps anything.
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Short, practical summary that fills the gaps in the thread: the reason your pasted GIF becomes a single static frame is that Photoshop pastes only the current raster image unless you bring the animation frames in as layers (or place the GIF in the page as a separate animated image). In Photoshop CS2 the animation system treats each frame as a layer/state in the Animation palette, so you need to work with the full frame stack and export via Save For Web to keep the motion. Photoshop CS2 animation notes. (flylib.com)

How to do it in Photoshop CS2 (high level):

  1. Open the animated GIF (or import frame images). If opening the GIF shows only one frame, open it in ImageReady and use Jump to Photoshop so all frames become layers.
  2. Open your background picture and place it as the bottom layer in the same document (same canvas size).
  3. Open Window > Animation, use the palette menu to make frames from layers (or toggle layer visibility per frame) and set timing/looping.
  4. Export with File > Save for Web, choose GIF and set Looping Options to Forever. See Adobe’s frame-animation and export workflow. . ()

If your source is a movie clip: extract the frames first (ffmpeg is reliable), then load those images into one PSD as sequential layers and turn them into frames. Example ffmpeg extraction:

ffmpeg -i source.mp4 frames/frame_%04d.png

Then import those frames into Photoshop and follow the steps above. (ffmpeg docs). (ffmpeg.org)

Practical tips, alternatives and cautions: GIFs are limited to 256 colors and get large fast for photographic movie scenes — for longer or photo-real clips prefer short MP4/WebM or APNG for higher color/alpha. If you only need the animated piece to appear over a static background on a web page, position the animated file over the background with CSS (multiple backgrounds or absolutely positioned images) instead of merging them in Photoshop. CSS multiple backgrounds guidance. (developer.mozilla.org) Also note GIF color/size limits when choosing format. (filealchemy.io)

Extras: was right that a naive copy/paste won’t preserve the animation; and pointed to tools that simplify this—third-party GIF utilities or Fireworks can speed the workflow. Avoid Flash (no longer supported). For publishing movie clips, check copyright/fair-use rules or get permission. Adobe Flash EOL. (adobe.com) U.S. Copyright Office - Fair Use overview. (copyright.gov)

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Well ok, I found out how to make GIFS from movies. But now I have ran into a new problem inserting them into other pics and still having them to play. Every time I copy and paste the animated gif to where I want it, its just one frame and does not play. How do I fix this?

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Ok, do you have Macromedia's Fireworks? It's actually quite a bit more user friendly for making frame-by-frame gif animations.

Also, check the web for freeware animators. If you generate each image by itself then you can easily assemble and view it with one of those.

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Amazing Wegif e creates, aligns and animates pictures with similar contents, fun, friendly and easy to use, GIf animator software

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i would say use flash cs4 which i could get for you, but its probably not as specific or friendly enough compared to the others suggested. Since im guessing you wanna do a quick job.

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Well ok, I found out how to make GIFS from movies. But now I have ran into a new problem inserting them into other pics and still having them to play. Every time I copy and paste the animated gif to where I want it, its just one frame and does not play. How do I fix this?

You can't paste an animated .gif into another image. You have to either make the entire large image part of the animated .gif when you create it, or you have to place the animated image on top of the other image in the web page itself. You might try making the other image the background of some object.

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You can't paste an animated .gif into another image. You have to either make the entire large image part of the animated .gif when you create it, or you have to place the animated image on top of the other image in the web page itself. You might try making the other image the background of some object.

i have used this software to make animated pics,,actually flash,,there are lot of animated inamge inside,i am not sure it is what you want,but you can have a look first.
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Here Ia m explaining the easiest way of making GIf animated pictures..
With Easy GIF Animator You Can

* Easily create animated banners, pictures and buttons [View samples]
* Create animated GIF images from scratch
* Edit and modify animated GIF images
* Add visual effects to your GIF animation
* Create moving text effects
* Optimize animated GIF images so they take less space and load faster
* Preview GIF animation in web browser
* Resize whole animations at once
* Manage animation frames
* Set animation loop count and frame duration
* Extract separate animation frames
* Reverse GIF animation or a portion of it
* Easily set transparency
* Add sound to your animation
* Save animation in SWF Flash format
* Search the Web to find images for use in your animation
* Export GIF animation to AVI format
* Use GIF, JPG, PNG and BMP images in your animation
* Generate HTML code for publishing animation on the web

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