Animated gif

[Pootie]

Hi

I have an animated dolphin sparkly or glitter gif image, I wish to change the colour of the image from the current colour to purple whilst still saving the animation and the glitter...I have been weeks on line trying to figure out how to do this.

If anyone can help me, I would be so grateful.

http://s.mynicespace.com/myspacepic/4/434.gif

The above is the said image.

This is the colour I would like it to be : PURPLE

If anyone can do this for me and post it here, I would be delighted.

Thanks.

Obviously in further reading of the posts in this forum, this seem like a rather basic question to ask, so I ask that you bear with me and show a little patience.

[djr33]

1. You need to use a program that allows animated gifs.
2. For each frame individually change the "Hue/Saturation" (or "Color Balance", etc.) so that Blue becomes Purple. In this case I moved the overall Hue to +100º.
If your program allows batch operations you could modify all the frames at once (not sure of any that do this though--- you could also save an "action" or other batch process and apply it to each of the frames individually... would save time changing the settings).
3. Save the new version, making sure the animation is correct; done.

There is no real "trick" to this, because you must manipulate each frame you want to change-- all of them. The only problems are: consistency (make sure you use the same exact settings or it'll get jumpy) and finding a program that will allow you to manipulate all of the frames then save as an animated gif sti


I used Adobe Imageready (the web/animation companion to Photoshop in the older versions; in the new versions (CS series) it is bundled into Photoshop).

[Pootie]

I cannot thank you enough, I am just so pleased that someone took my question seriously enough and took the time to help me.

You are my hero djr33.

Thank you sooo much.

Sincerely,

[djr33]

Sure. It is theoretically very easy to do, but if you don't have the right software, basically impossible. Look into some specific software for making animated gifs if you plan to do this a lot. (Photoshop probably isn't the best, if your specific goal is animated gifs, by the way, even though it can get the job done for the most part.)