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I am wondering if their is a simple way to take a gif and turn it into a tiled image, that I could then use in LOVE. I could split it into frames and arrange them in photoshop, but i am wondering if there is a better/faster way before I do that.

What you are referring to is called a sprite sheet. Off the top of my head, I know Pro Motion and GraphicsGale support automatically creating a sprite sheet from individual frames. Both these programs require $$$ though.

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I just tried out ASEPRITE and it also supports sprite sheets. It's free and open source.

I don't think there's any automated ways of doing this. I'd suggest using something like GIF frame extractor to extract the frames then arrange them in some photo editing software (as you mentioned in your post). This could indeed be time consuming if you're dealing with alot of frames.

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