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.GIF images mess up my picture? I'm trying to make an animated image. I have this: http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p105/Icy_X-Cel/adder-3.gif But I wanted my background to look like the original .png that I saved. http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p105/Icy_X-Cel/addernew.png Is there any way I can get the background to look normal while still keeping the animation? Thanks. Here's the animation. I actually use GIMP but apparently GIF's have to be in RGB color format or something and so it messes up the whole picture. http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p105/Icy_X-Cel/adder-4.gif If you give me the animated image by itself, I'll add it for you. As it is, I don't know what process you used to make that in the first place (using Gimp, ImageReady, an automatic gif maker, or what). So I can't really describe to you how to fix it. It looks like you saved it with too low a quality setting though. Edit: Alright, here you go: http://i33.tinypic.com/s1q14m.gif . It's still not PERFECT, but that's the best I am able to do, and pretty close to the best possible. The problem with gifs is that they have to be indexed, and have no transparency support. That means you only get 256 colors to choose from. Your original PNG already had a crapton more colors than 256 (plus transparencies), not including the animated gif. To fix the problem best I could, I set the original gif's mode to RGB, Indexed the background picture by itself, then merged the two together and reindexed them (using the backgrounds index settings, instead of the animated gif's). Hopefully this is satisfactory for you. The other option you have, is chopping that signature up into multiple pieces, and just posting them together.

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Production Cels as an Investment

Currently, investors are looking for a better rate of return on their investments so are looking at diversifying their portfolio by trading fine wines, truffles, jewellery and antiques. Another type of collectable and potential investment are original production cels from animated films.

People purchase this kind of work for nostalgic purposes as to whether own a part of <a href="http://www.cels.info/">animation art</a> they watched as a kid or to display it as an artwork for their walls.

Production cels from animations are becoming rare as most studios prefer digital media as it's quicker and cost effective. The process of production cels after a film was completed was that they were even given away on video sets or sold indvidually once the animation process was completed. The more popular shows and movies demanded higher prices for the cels, with some selling for thousands of dollars.

Animation cels can be broken down into the following groups - limited editions, sericels and production cels. Production cels usually fetch the most as they are hand-painted and "under the camera" cels, which are the most collectable.

The prices of cels depend upon the "value" of the animated film by it's age, animation studio and quality. Some unique cels have fetched record prices at art auctions, such as a group shot of the characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit which sold for $50,600 at Sotheby's in 1989. Other cels which have high potential values are old Disney films, the one using production cels was The Little Mermaid and The Simpsons, which now only use digital media.

Keep an eye on places like Ebay and Yahoo auctions as well as your local animation store.

About the Author

Giles Dawe is a Production Cel collector and artist.