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Re:The Hardest Way to Make a GIF by ticulatedspline on Friday July 24, 2026 @03:29PM (#49040572)
> Using imagemagick on the command line I was able to combine the images into a GIF.

man what a cop out, I was hoping they would use a text editor to build the gif. that would be way harder.

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Re:The Hardest Way to Make a GIF by hereonout2 on Friday July 24, 2026 @03:54PM (#49040850)
Indeed, I've never developed my own film but I do respect it entails a fair bit of effort, and the funky old camera is cool.

But scanning, cropping using one of the latest image editors, then running it through imagemagick does not feel like the hardest way to make a gif.

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Re:The Hardest Way to Make a GIF by adzm on Friday July 24, 2026 @04:04PM (#49040952)
Developing film is such a beautiful kind of magic. Watching the image appear in a darkroom before your eyes is a very unique experience.
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Re:The Hardest Way to Make a GIF by helterskelter on Friday July 24, 2026 @04:35PM (#49041255)
Yeah I was expecting somebody to build a gif by hand from the spec using ed.
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Re:The Hardest Way to Make a GIF by unsnap_biceps on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:20PM (#49041715)
Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/378/
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Re:The Hardest Way to Make a GIF by DerivativeBS on Friday July 24, 2026 @04:51PM (#49041423)
Yeah, real devs write their own LZW compression implementation from scratch in C++
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