If anyone has ever appreciated my brazen opinions and courtroom observations could you please find a way to email me that dancing Simplicity girl? I saved it but it only came as a photo, not the dancing part. I need this so badly to share with someone. Thank you!
[email protected] (will it transfer to Facebook doing that?)
You probably tried to open it to look at it... that's when it only shows the first frame of the animation and you lose all the other frames unless you opened it in an animation program (which most people wouldn't have). Delete the one you tried to save and go back to the animation to re-save.
Right click on the animation and chose "save as" or "save image as"... I use XP on a PC so mine says "save image as". Save the animation and either kee the same file name or change it to something you like better and make sure you save it as a .gif. This animation for some reason has a .jpg extension but it still adds the .gif extension after that. I tried saving the animation as is as a gif both ways and it worked (as blahblah.jpg.gif and blahblah.gif). Save the animation to your desktop or in some folder on your computer of your choice that you'll know where it is. I put it in my huge "Humor" file.
Then don't open it. It will remain as an animation as long as you don't try to open it on you computer unless you open it in an animation program which you probably don't have (usually only us animation makers would have one). It will be saved as an animation though if you look at the thumbnail of it on your computer you'll only see the still image of the first frame of the animation. It will be saved as an animation though. Once it's saved on your computer you can email it or put it on facebook or whatever.
If you want to test on your computer that it animates send it embedded in an email to yourself... it will animate in the email that you receive back but might show up as a still frame or a box with a red X in it in the email that you put it in to send to yourself. You could also email it to yourself to test it as an attachment rather than embedded in the email. Best jut to trust that it saved as an animation though because as long as you save it as a .gif it will.
I don't know how you put images or animations on facebook since I don't use it, but I would imagine that at some point it prompts you to insert the file name of whatever image you want to put on there, so at that point just use the browse option to insert the file name of the animation and transfer it on to facebook. Just do whatever you would do if it were a still image that you were putting on facebook and trust that it saved as an animation on your computer.
Just remember that once you save it to your computer don't try to open it on your computer because that's what will ruin the animating as it will only be able to open in an image program that doesn't have the capability of opening animations. Doing that will make the file lose all the frames of the animation except the first image frame and forever after it will look like a still image of just that first frame no matter what you do with it.
If you have any problems send me a PM and I'll walk you through it. I've been making animations for years so I know all these weird pitfalls and have long since made and figured out every mistake or weirdness there is.
