MacOS – Can Preview on Mountain Lion make animated pictures from a sequence of PNG

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I seem to recall making animated GIF from Preview.app on earlier OS, but can't find the options to make a GIF on the latest version of the app.

Can I use 10.8 Preview to make animated PNG or GIF?

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If you hold down alt/option when you click the format dropdown in the export menu, you can still select GIF in Mountain Lion. Once you have done this, you can continue with the normal animated gif creation process:

Save your image as a GIF
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Drag additional frames on top of the thumbnail

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MacOS – Preview an animated GIF image

Right-click it, go to the Open With menu, and choose Safari (or your other favorite Web browser).

It should open quickly, and will play the animation.
No internet connection is required if you have a local copy of the image.

MacOS – Are there any “App Store quality” apps for creating animated GIFs from a series of image files

You might install ImageMagick with brew install imagemagick and then use something like this:

convert -delay 4 *.png output.gif

-delay 4 sets the delay between frames to 0.04 s.

See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_basics/ for more information.

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