Animated GIF program for Windows?

Unfortunately, GIF (being an old format) isn’t a highly compressed format. The compression you get with GIF depends largely on the delta (differences) between one frame and the frame following it. All you can do is adjust that slider from high quality to low quality. But GIF is pretty low quality to begin with, so setting the quality even lower, well…

But I understand your desire. I use GIFs in my web pages a lot, myself, because there’s no special plug in or media player; just put them in an IMG tag like any other image and they appear on your page like any other image, only they’re animated. If you don’t need audio to go along with the animation, GIF is an ideal format for animations on web pages.

And when I want an audio track, I just EMBED a midi file. If the audio is music and doesn’t need to be synchronized perfectly with the animation, GIF and MIDI is a highly compact and efficient way to animate a web page with audio.

It seems the popular free graphics editor, GIMP, can create animated GIF files…

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/gimptutorials/tp/animated-gif.htm

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/1664.html

Get GIMP here:

http://www.gimp.org/

There seem to be a couple of other Animated GIF ctreators.

This one is free:

http://www.toggle.com/lv/group/view/kl34879/Microsoft_GIF_Animator.htm

Hope this helps.