On Jul 8, 8:08 am, NGneering wrote:
Hi
I am looking for a gif that can source weather information from a web
site. Is it possible to get such a gif imaging anywhere?

I wanted the Animationin the gif to be a live weather report ... I
want file to be GIF only.

The file that the browser picks up is decided by the owner of the web
page. You can change the category of the file in your own operating
system. With Windows it is a simple matter of saving the file as an
image in My pictures then choosing to open the file with Paint or any
image processing utility.

My Documents My Pictures Highlight image saved (Wherever you
saved it. It may be stored elsewhere if you are not careful.) Right
click on the mouse over it and choose Open With. (I use Paint) then
Save File As and either change the whole name or just change the last
three letters in the file.

Linux works in a completely different way and I don't know any more
about that, sorry. Once you get the image open, though (in The Gimp or
PSP for example) the method is identical. It is just a matter of
saving it as a *****.gif file.

If you are having difficulty in storing a gif file it may be that the
site is set up in a way that prevents it. A very secure site such as
this one:
https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/efs/efs.html will not let me save the loops
for some reason but this one:
http://weather.unisys.com/images/sat_sfc_map_loop.html lets me save
the image loop as Save Image. It couldn't be easier.

Both are gif images.

If you are trying to upload a picture of your own and the software
that came with the camera is using a different default, you might get
the right advice from a forum the utility set up. Or you can upload it
to Flickr or wherewver then d/l it again and do as the above. I really
don't know enough about that sort of thing.

Good luck.