Hi

When should we use animated GIFs and when should we use flash?


In order to liven up our products, I have been asked to rotate between different photos. The photos are quite small thumbnails (c.120 pixels wide) and they won't need to slide around the screen or do anything clever - just flick straight from one to the other.


The only way I actually know how to do this is by using animated GIFs.
I have never used flash but I understand that it is a good way to do animations.


The problem with GIFs is of course that they do not compress blended colours very well, and can look rather rough...


But the problem with flash is that:
a) I dont know how to create it (yet)
b) I imagine a number of users will not have flash installed on their
browsers.


Any thoughts?


Ship
Shiperton Henethe


P.S. I normally use Photoshop 6 & XaraXtreme Professional

PPS. Does Xara Xtreme Professional (v4.0) allow you to create Flash exports as animations ?