New technology: GIF Animator
For Lab 9, this is how I used the GIF animator to animate my maps.
1. I opened the animator and went to the Animation Wizard.
2. In the Animator Wizard, I went to Add Image…
3. In Add Image…, the screen of my maps (in the GEOG 353/Wheat folder) appears. I make sure that the maps are the selected cropped version from Cropper. All of the maps I wanted to highlight I choose while holding the Ctrl button (there are 11 or 12 of them.)
4. The selected maps and their paths show up on the animated wizard start up screen. I made sure all of them were there.
5. For the frame duration, I decided on 92 for the delay. This way, there is not much of a delay and the maps are transitioning smoothly.
6. The maps download onto the interface. I gave them a preview to make sure that the maps look right (no blurriness, no missing pieces, no glitch in the system.)
7. After confirming that the transfer of the maps and its animation went well, I save the animated files and rename it to something that differentiates it from the regular maps.
Now this looks like a professional animation of the maps I created and how the data changes quickly and smoothly over time.
