r543 Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Hello Community Recently I've been working on an animated GIF again, since I had the agif and apng plugin installed, I thought I'd use that. Sadly the GIF preview wasn't available(it was in the past? might be because the image was rather small) and the GIF ended up having "random pixels" due to compression, even through each Frame used less than 256 colors, which shouldn't have happened in my view. I've done a quick search but haven't really found an alternative GIF Plugin, while Unfreez is nice to use, doing it directly via PDN with the layers would make it much easier, without relying on a extra program(not that I have anything against Unfreez) and also allows you to set the loop amount, so I wanted to ask if there are any alternatives that create proper "uncompressed" gifs and what Plugins the Community is using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewDavid Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Hi @r543 Welcome to the forum As you can tell by my sig I have mastered the GIF animations in paint. Sounds to me like you have not found the right plugins. Here is the first one I use This one I use to build the gif from a spritesheet. Once the gif is exported it also allows me to look at it from within paint Hope this helps. Any other questions - do not hesitate to ask. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximilian Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 I second Andrew's suggestions ? midora's plugin for animating gifs is the best thing in its type that you will find for PdN. Don't forget to read its Readme file attentively for instructions on how to use it. BTW, welcome to the forum! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsy Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Hi r543 and welcome! I have used Midora's plugin for animated gifs and I agree it's easy to use. I prefer a free program called PhotoScape. It's easy to use and if I can figure it out anybody can. I did one gif with 380 png files. It was a bit slow with that amount but it got the job done. 1 My PDN Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r543 Posted July 14, 2017 Author Share Posted July 14, 2017 Thanks for all the help. I haven't had much time recently but I do plan to check out the plugins soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleD Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Is this plugin still the go to for paint.net version 4.2.13 Animated gif or png files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toe_head2001 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 You can continue to use the plugin by midora. @DoubleD, please don't post in these very old forum topics. Locked. My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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