I have spent the afternoon and evening trying and failing to figure out how to make a gif for my Patreon front banner*. I am either old, or this is harder than it looks. Or I am old, and this is harder than it looks. That’s always a possibility.
Moe Lane
*Although I did fix it so that the resolution was good, and you could see that I wrote a book. So that’s a win.
It also could be that the software was designed to be “helpful”. With undocumented features enabled by default all over the place.
An example is Cricut’s Design Space. It’s an absolute PITA work with, because it’s marketed to women crafters who have never used CAD/CAM. So the interface is simplified (AKA: mostly hidden), and it tries to automate everything without bothering to tell you what it’s doing. (It automates processes based on what the marketing department sees as selling points. And the marketing department obviously doesn’t use the product.)
(Shrug) My wife switched from Silhouette to Cricut because she thought she’d need less help. It didn’t work out that way.
Alas, it was more along the lines of ‘user didn’t know what he was doing at all.’ A buddy of mine told me to use Ezgif and it all went embarrassingly easy this morning. Although I should note that the software sounds like the exact opposite of what your wife went through. It’s stripped down and marketing-free, with all the features over to one side where you can ignore them unless you need them. I should maybe give those people some money.