S2u2 Question: How Do I Resize Gifs???

[TheDude1120]

With S2U2 now supporting .gif formats, how can i resize them without distorting the image? I have a few wallpapers I want to try myself, but I cant figure out what program to use. Can anyone help me?

[Rudegar]

hhhmmm do you mean on pc or pda?

irfanview is a good program to do it on pc

but you can never do it without it becomming blocky
all resizing do is to multiply the sizes of the pixels
no software can add new infomation to an image
those tv shows where they can keep zooming
and it audo makes the picture unblocky is just tv

[Sian]

I use GIMP 'Scaling' feature to scale a picture to 240 x 320, after I crop out the portion I want.

GIMP allow you to save multiple layers of pictures as gif format and even determine the speed of animation. :)

[syrguy1969]

So....would GIMP enable you to take a 240x320 and crop it to a 240x240 like cropping a photo in other imaging software?

[Sian]

Yes it sure does. :)

GIMP may seem a bit 'daunting' for non-graphic designing tool user like me at first glance. but once you play with it for a while, it's not that difficult.

:)

[syrguy1969]

I'll give it a shot...thanks for the quick response!

[TheDude1120]

is there a way to resize these in a batch rather than one by one using gimp? I just spent 30 mins trying to resize one gif and it still wouldnt even let me save it. Can someone give me some quck instructions on resizing using this program por favor?

[Sian]

How many layer are there in your gif file? I think the length of time taken is due to your unfamiliarity with GIMP. Otherwise, it should be pretty fast. :) Not sure whether there are other software out there which allows an even faster and easier way of doing this.

By the way, a question for the guru. I notice the picture quality dropped a bit after I saved them into gif. Any tips to get around such a drop?

[TheDude1120]

i believe one gif had about 141 layers, is there a LIMIT to how many layers S2U2 .96 will support?