# Creating animated GIFs -- please point me to a free program

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 6, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-animated-gifs-please-point-me-to-a-free-program/297956 "2005-04-06T01:14:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-animated-gifs-please-point-me-to-a-free-program/297956/1 "2005-04-06T01:14:24Z")

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Are there any freeware programs I can use to create my own animated gif from a series of pictures (from a digital camera).

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-animated-gifs-please-point-me-to-a-free-program/297956/2 "2005-04-06T04:38:31Z")

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[Google?](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=freeware+creating+animated+gifs&btnG=Search)

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**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-animated-gifs-please-point-me-to-a-free-program/297956/3 "2005-04-06T06:13:53Z")

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try [versiontracker.com](http://versiontracker.com)

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**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-animated-gifs-please-point-me-to-a-free-program/297956/4 "2005-04-06T06:35:45Z")

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You going for that faux 3-D effect?  
I think when my friend and I tried that out we used the [GIMP](http://www.gimp.org/).

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**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-animated-gifs-please-point-me-to-a-free-program/297956/5 "2005-04-06T14:22:28Z")

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If you’re on a Unix system, and are comfortable with command-line tools, I’d recommend [gifsicle](http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/gifsicle/).

Those are two big _ifs_, perhaps.