"Part I"
Intro
Welcome. In this section, I will show you how to make your very own gifs. I will explain the uses of Animagic (a simple program that works). I will show you how to make frames, assemble them into gifs, and the do’s and don’ts of making gifs. I hope you find this section helpful. Because this section is up here, I will not take any emails one how to make gifs. This section will help you more than enough. 
Animagic
First off, we’ll look at a few of the features in Animagic. I want to tell you first that I don’t recommend using this program. The interface is downright horrible, but for starting out, it works fine. Go to Downloads.com and search for “Animagic.” Download the free trial version (30 day trial). I downloaded the trial version about 6 monthes ago and it still works, so maybe you’ll get lucky and not have to buy a gif program.
I suggest using this program to start out since it does everything you need to do when you make your first gif-add the frames together and save it as a gif. That’s all you need to do, and that’s what this program does.
Once you get some experience making gifs, then I suggest buying a better program. There are many out there, so just search around.
Anyway, on with the features of Animagic.
I’m giving a brief run-through of this programs features, some of which you’ll be using later. Let’s just get familiar with them. Download the program, open it up, and follow along with me. I’m not going to go through everything, just the important stuff (some stuff I have no clue what it does!).
File Menu
New: New Gifs
Open: Open a Gif
Save: Save a Gif
Save As: Save a Gif as a different name
Revert: Revert to original Gif
Preview: Preview the Gif
HTML code: View HTML code
Save Frames: Save frames in a separate file
Append Frames: Add in frames after the current frame
Insert Frames: Add in frames before the current frame
Exit: Quit program
Pretty self-explanatory. Basically, you’ll use most of these functions.
Edit Menu
Undo: Undo Action
Cut: Cut
Copy: Copy
Paste: Paste something from clipboard before current frame
Paste Append: Paste something from clipboard at the end
Delete: Delete something, like a frame
That’s all the important stuff for that menu. Those are the basic things, next come the vital things in making a gif.
Animation Menu
Play: Play Gif
Stop: Stop Gif
Next: Move to next frame
Prev: Move to previous frame
Transparent color: Select a transparent color
Loop Count: Select the number of times the Gif loops
Frame rate: Select frame rate and repeat count
Frames Menu
Shift: Shift a selected frame over a certain number of pixels
Flip and Rotate: Flip and Rotate a frame around
Duplicate: Duplicates multiple frames
Delete: Delete a frame
Gray Scale: Make Gif into shades of gray
Options Menu
Nothing you need here. You can select the Gif to loop, and that’s all you need
View Menu
Show frame list: Important. Allows jumping from frame to frame faster
Zoom in/out: You know what this is
Effects Menu
Use if you want to get fancy. We won’t go into it.
Help Menu
Use if you need help. (why would you with my teachings!?)
Hopefully, you are familiar with the program. Now that it’s out of the way, we can work on the first order of business, assembling frames.
Intro
Frames
Assembling the Gif
Do’s and Don’ts
Do’s and Don’ts II
In Closing
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