Photoshop Elements 6 animation question

[brinkley]

i had read somewhere in the forums that an annoying bug in the "save for web/gif" animation dialog window is that you must tab down to change the "delay" setting. this proved INCREDIBLY helpful, and relieved a lot of my PSE tension. or so i thought. how do i get the new setting to take effect? the "preview" shows the frames running at the same rate. is there also a way to de-select "loop"?

thanks...

and there is this...is it possible to send this file as a functioning e-mail attachment? does a gif animation file have life on its own, or does it need a website? can i share an animation i have built outside of a website/avatar application?

[ChrisA]

i had read somewhere in the forums that an annoying bug in the "save for web/gif" animation dialog window is that you must tab down to change the "delay" setting. this proved INCREDIBLY helpful, and relieved a lot of my PSE tension. or so i thought. how do i get the new setting to take effect? the "preview" shows the frames running at the same rate. is there also a way to de-select "loop"?

thanks...

and there is this...is it possible to send this file as a functioning e-mail attachment? does a gif animation file have life on its own, or does it need a website? can i share an animation i have built outside of a website/avatar application?

The amimation is done by the viewer. So yes the gif anamation is self-contained but if the viewer does not understand animation or if the users has disabled anamation in his viewer he wont see it. I routinely disable gif anamation

[acousticsam]

how do i get the new setting to take effect? the "preview" shows the frames running at the same rate. is there also a way to de-select "loop"?

You're out of luck. For PSE 6, the framerate will always be 0.2. And for PSE 4 and 6, you can't deselect "loop". It's explained (barely) in Adobe's support website: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/333/333620.html.

If you have PSE 4, you can change the framerate and that's it.

You can download a great free GIF animator here: http://www.onyxbits.de/sites/default/files/giftedmotion-1.14.jar

[CraftyMumma]

I know it has been a long time since this thread was started but I thought I would still reply, apparently there is no fix for this issue. What I do to work around the problem is I duplicate the layers so I will have 4 or 5 of the same image that way when it has it's .2 second delay, you can't really tell because it is going thru the same image 5 times which lengthens the amount of time it 'appears' to be shown. I hope that makes sense!

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