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Can anyone suggest an application that will convert JPEGs and TIFs to GIFs?
I used Microsofts Image Composer (beta) to save a JPEG file as a GIF so I
could use it with Microsoft GIF Animator (beta), but the resulting GIF image
was less than perfect. Some of picture looked like it'd been 'highlighted',
and some colours had been replaced with others. Very bizarre. Also, the only
other app I have that *could* do the job, Corel PhotoPaint, can open
existing GIFs, but other image formats cannot be re-saved as GIFs (as far as
I can tell).
Alternately, are there any GIF animation programs that will allow me to
import a picture with a different file extension, and *then* save it as a
GIF? It'd be nice if any of the programs mentioned could be downloaded from
the Internet, or are available as beta programs.
Please reply off list, if you feel this message is slightly off topic.
Thanks in advance!
Jacqueline Fry
Documentation Specialist
Array Systems Computing Inc.
1120 Finch Avenue West, 8th Floor
North York, Ontario, Canada M3J 3H7
Phone: 416-736-0900 ext. 275
E-mail: jfry -at- array -dot- ca
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