Graphics Questions

[Tracy]

I've got two questions for anyone who knows:

1) Is there a way to de-animate an animated gif back into the original frames, and

2) What's the best way to do a glowing effect in PB if I"m looking through a camera? The best I can think of is to take a snapshot of the screen, draw my lights on it with Lightimage, and replace it to the screen. Anyone have a better method?

Thanks all.

[Digital Awakening]

For question 1 you need a software that can handle gif animations. For example Image Ready (included in Photoshop these days). Or you can take a screenshot and then crop the image in some image software.

[Ian Price]

Try this - http://www.codersworkshop.com/viewshowcase.php?id=56

It sound like it does what you want. And it's free :)

[Tracy]

Thanks guys. I'll see what I can do.

Ian, that sounds like exactly what I'm after. I'm sure it'll work great.

Edit: It does. Thanks again.

[Alex777]

Paint Shop Pro ver. 7 comes with Animation Shop 3.  In AS, with a couple of clicks you can export an animation to PSP and they are all stored in 1 image, each frame of the animation in a separate layer.  Pretty neat.  Not free, though.  You can probably get it cheap on eBay because the current version is 9.