A question about animated pictures...

[Ikith]

Is there any way to pull apart the frames of an animated .gif or animated picture in general?

[Royal]

Maybe take a screenshot of the part you want? Then photoshop it out.

[Ikith]

Can you open the .gif in photoshop and have it tear the 2 frames apart?

[Shade]

No, Photoshop won't be able to do it.
Something like Coffeecup Gif Animator (http://www.coffeecup.com/gif-animator/) ought to be able to.

[Cletis]

macromedia fireworks

[Fhqwghads]

My advice is to check out downloads.com. There's a lot of different freeware/shareware apps that can accomplish what you're asking, and Downloads.com has a good system in place to find what you want.

[Charla]

The version of paint shop pro I use comes with an animation editor (think it's called animation shop). I got it like 10 years ago though, so no idea where you could find it now.

[theo]

Shouldn't Adobe ImageReady be able to do that?

[SephYuyX]

Shouldn't Adobe ImageReady be able to do that?

Yes, if you have photoshop, you have this. You can make/edit animations with imageready.

[Justice]

i don't believe image ready can edit a .gif image like you want.
i used to use Adobe premiere to edit .gifs.

EDIT - just opened SephirothYuyX avatar in imageready. I stand corrected. you can use it too edit .gif images.

[SephYuyX]

IR can do pretty much whatever you need to do. Though Premiere may have more special options, IR can do whatever as long as you know how to use it with PS.