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Personally, I use Macromedia Fireworks to create animated GIFs. It has wonderful tools for doing professional quality GIF animations. Macromedia was bought by Adobe recently, so if you buy the newest version of Fireworks then it would be 'Adobe Fireworks'. But you don't need the newest version. I'm sure you can pick up an older version fairly cheap on eBay.

Fireworks might be overkill if all you are interested in is animated GIFs. Fireworks is a very powerful program. Think of it as a scaled down version of Adobe PhotoShop but easier to use. Fireworks is mainly used to mock up web site designs, create web site animations and buttons, and to perform basic photo editing tasks. I find myself using Fireworks far more than PhotoShop to do basic photo editing (like resizing photos) because the Fireworks program opens so much faster than PhotoShop because PhotoShop is a huge program now.

Thanks for the heads up.  I really appreciate it.  Haven;t played with Macromedia too much, but I think I actually have a copy lying around.  3 kids, too busy LOL

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Lynda.com has excellent, excellent training videos.
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Original Message I am looking for a program to create animated gifs etc. I have never tried doing my own before so simplicity would be great. I don't trust the sites that advertise the crap because they are, well, they are usually full of crap. Best source has always been and will continue to be the users, something Bill Gates forgot about apparently

Any program suggestions/reviews would be appreciated and of course free ware is always welcome as well as special effects etc if possible..

Thanks in advance

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