how do you make GIFs and Screen savers?
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what does gif stand for?
Gif is made by flash sometimes.
Gif is animatedoricialy(WHATVER just its animated) thing.
This is the first way I learned how to animate a gif...
http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/
its a rather small program and you put pictures in frame by frame... make sure each picture is a gif image.
Another way i've learned is to use fireworks MX but I don't think you will have that program.
Maybe there is a way to use GIMP...
as for screen savers use google
Simple screensavers can be made using Game Maker. http://www.gamemaker.nl
Simply have it load a video or run a script or something.
You could use the particle system to make an interesting firework display for example. All you have to do is rename the .exe to .scr