Does anyone know of an image editor that would allow me to make a collage out of animated gifs?

are you on a mac or pc?

Opps forgot to say

I’m on a Macbook pro. Intel inside

the result would probably be displayed in a web browser, so, maybe i should just make the collage directly in html using some kind of table to lay it out? could be to difficult to make an image editor do this kind of thing.

I’m thinking Adobe Fireworks may do the trick…but I’m not sure. Flash could possibly maybe work too, and you could export the whole thing as an animated .gif or an .swf file.

With regard to the HTML table thing, that would work well if the images were all of the same size. If they aren’t (or you just want an alternative way to do things), I would recommend having a container <div> on your page with the images CSS positioned inside of it.

@FrogOnFire thanks, I see what you are saying with the <div> vs table

I have not worked in Fireworks, and I’m having trouble understanding what it does differently than Flash.. whats the basic difference (I’m sure there are tons)?

I didn’t realize you could export an animated .gif from Flash, could be good, as long
as I could get the gifs in and arrange them on layers while retaining their animation (import as movie works perhaps?). It has been a long while since I worked with Flash.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Flash is really easy to animate with. I have no knowledge of Fireworks.

I think photoshop can.

@pizzaman

in photoshop cs4, for some reason, when you import an animated gif, you get a prompt saying you can only load 1 frame of the animation. i think maybe importing it as video could work, but I’m not sure. will have to do some experimentation. it definitely isn’t as easy to do in photoshop as I had hoped, especially merging several animations into one project.

I think Preview will open all of the frames and at least give you access to them

@quasi

what do you mean by animated gifts. Maybe I think it is something else.