Creating .png animations

on the cursorXP site of stardock you will find a free program called anyutil, that will convert all your animated gif files into the png format

Thanks for the info!

I just dl'd anyutil and it only processes .bmp and .png files

duh you are right werewolf...But there must be a few gif animator programs around that can convert gifs to png images...try to look at webattack.com or zdnet

does PNG really support animations? i don´t think so. i guess these "animations" are just PNGs that are tiled to show the frames of the animation.

so i think every image editor that can handle PNGs should be good for that.

show the frames of the animation from left to right to be more exact.

Shamelessly stolen from my friend Deadzombie over at Neowin...

Create a new image in Photoshop, 128 pixels high by 768 pixels wide. This will give you 6 animation frames 128x128 (768/128 = 6). Make certain the background is transparent.

Set your guides and grids to 128 pixels, 8 subdivisions. Show grid.

You'll need 6 images for each animation section. for a zoomer I start with 48x48 on the left and increase the size each frame to the right.


From left to right the image sizes I use are 48, 64, 72, 96, 112, 128. You can use Gif Movie Gear or iconXP to export .psd files of an icons images sizes.

Using your align tools, align all the images within your selected ares, and save for the web as a 24bit .png with transparency enabled.

Right click on an Object and choose properties. Under the appearance dialog in properties you will see several different states (mouse over, mouse away, show...) most zoomers have only 3 states, although I have made a few zoomers with 16 different animation states before...the point is, you will see the image file for each state...browse to your new .png and load it. Make cetain it is applied to each appearance state.

Also make certain that under the animation tab you have the correct number of frames listed (6). Some people use 4 frames, others 5. I've seen animations with 50 frames before. Yikes!

Just remember to adjust the settings for each animation state or you'll get some strange effects.

Hope this helped.


Visual link here. http://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35499

Thank you digitaljames and Deadzombie. Your advice helps tremendously. One problem though. I am using Draw 8.0 and Photo-Panint. Not really keen on spending the money on Photoshop. I have tried several techniques to export .png's without the white background with no luck. I mask my object, make transparent all background and even delete background. When exporting I always get the same, "Image will be merged with background", even when there is no background to merge with! Any advice from those familiar with Corel would be greatly appreciated. I have followed directions from a number of forum posts related to this subject, but none of them seem to work.

Thanks again from a Hapless Graphics Newbie!

Paint Shop Pro does .png's well. There is a trial version at www.jasc.com. You could try it out just to see. It's also reasonably priced.