How To Create Animated Pictures

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

 

When advertising your business, it is necessary to get the attention of potential customers.  A text ad is probably not going to get many people’s attention.  A picture ad will be more likely to get a customer’s attention, especially if it is colorful and eye-catching; sort of like the old saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.”

However, the internet is full of millions and billions of pictures, so how do you compete?  Try an animated picture.

An animated picture is sort of like a flashing neon sign.  If you are driving down a busy city street at night, you will have lights surrounding you from all the businesses and the street lights.  Mentally, you will begin to block them out.  Flashing lights are more likely to capture someone’s attention.

An animated picture has movement within it to capture a person’s attention and, with a bit of creativity, they are easy to create.

Think about an animated picture like you would the cartoons you drew as a kid on the edge of the pages of a booklet.  Each page has the same picture with a minor change, but as you flip through the pages, the pictures seem to come to life a move.

To create an animated picture:

1.      Use your favorite picture software to create a series of 2 or more pictures you will group to create your animation.  You can keep it simple or make it as complicated as your heart desires.

2.    Name your pictures in the order you want them to appear in your animation so you can keep track.

3.    Upload your pictures to the internet.

4.    Go to http://www.myspacegens.com/handler.php?gen=animatedimage to put your animated picture together.

a.     Select the size you want for your animated picture

b.    Select the speed you want for your animation

c.     Upload your pictures by clicking on the ADD button and adding them in the order you want them to run.  After you have added your files, click the UPLOAD button.
 

d.     Click the Submit button.

e.     Depending on how many pictures are in your animation, it can take 30 seconds to several minutes for your picture to compile.  Once it is compiled, you can download it.

Note:  if you have trouble downloading it, simply retry.  That usually fixes the problem.

 

 

Once you have created your picture, read the post on how to use it to create a banner by clicking here.