How to Crop Your Animated GIF
So you created your animated GIF. Don't get cocky you still have work to do. One of them is to get your GIF down to size. You see huge poster size moving GIF's tend to take forever to load so you have to get rid of all that extra space. The word to use here is crop. Here's how to do it. When you get to your GIF Construction Set Professional and do all that fun stuff with the wizard your going to need to highlight all the frames including the frame at the top that says Header.
When you highlight them the boxes will turn gray you will then need to right click the mouse button and click on crop. You will then come to a screen that has a picture of one of the bmp files that you made and all you have to do from there left click the mouse and drag the little frame of ants around the bmp taking up as least space as possible.
So when you think it's as close as possible. Click on File, Done and your Animated GIF will look like this.
Click on the sunglasses and see how much smaller it is. This will save on loading time on the net dramatically. Here's what mine looked like after I was done.
