Another great way to do this, online, is via Gifpal, and we have talked about this before. We talked about layers in Gimp all that time ago, in this series of “overlay” theme blog posts with Gimp Layers Primer Tutorial. Today we use the tutorial to get the idea, then realize that an image with a layer for each animation photograph (the photographs of which were derived from HTML/Javascript Overlay Primer Tutorial) can be used, in Gimp, to Export (or Save to) an animated GIF. If you have any questions, just ask away! I take GIMP requests as well.We’ve come full circle with the “overlay” concept blog posts and come back to Gimp to create an animated GIF today where the animation is all bundled up into the one image resource called an “animated GIF” … so loved on tumblr, for instance.įor this, deferred to an excellent tutorial Create an Animated GIF Image with Gimp … thanks heaps. To know the size of your gif, hold down Alt + Enter and you will see this. When you get this pop up, tick “As animation”. Make sure you add the “.gif” at the of the name or it won’t work. To do that, go to File > Export As… and name the gif. ![]() It will open a new tab and from there just export your gif. Go to Filters > Animation > Optimize for gif. This step is optional but it helps to reduce the image size of your gif. Now you’re done with a basic gif! Before you export it, go to Image > Mode > Indexed and change the Color Dithering to “Positioned”.ġ2. The coloring I used for my gif is from this tutorial.ġ1. ![]() But I’m just doing the rough basics for this tutorial. There’s tons of other color filters you can use here in G’MIC, so please do explore it! I have tons of coloring tutorials too on my blog so you can check those out too. You don’t really have to use these exact values tho. Go to Testing > Runounours > Curves and use these values to add some contrast. So, hit “Apply” each time to apply the filter.ĩ. Under the Filters tab in G’MIC, find Details > Sharpen. It will stay at “All” the next time you open it but there are some tutorials that need it to be at “Visibles Only”, etc so watch out for those. Remember to set input layers to “All” so that all your coloring/sharpening will affect all the layers at once. If this is the first time you’ve downloaded G’MIC, hit the “Update Filters” button. Alright, now it’s time to sharpen your gif with G’MIC. To do that, go to Image > Flatten Layer Groups.Ĩ. You will see that the program is putting your layers into layer groups.īefore you move on, you have to flatten these groups. To make the tags work, simply go to Filters > Animation > Process Animstack Tags. Now, if you’re a beginner, this might not make sense to you and I’m not really going to bore with you the details but these are called tags for Animstack which is a very good plugin to have in GIMP! What I do is scroll down to the bottom of the layers and add in a new layer. I use Animstack and G’MIC to sharpen my gifs. Go to Image > Scale Image and put in a width of 540/268/177px (Tumblr dimensions). First thing to do here is to scale your gif. The first time, go to Windows > Single Window Mode so that all the docks are in place and not just floating all over the place.Īnd then find your frame folder. Make sure you’ve already placed the scripts and plugins in GIMP before Pics and just hit ‘delete’ on any double frames. I usually just hit the right arrow button to go through the Open you frames folder using Windows Photoįrames. Make sure you remember where to find the folder cuz we’re going toģ. Use KM player and get the clip that you want. So just download it off from YouTube using any downloading sites that you want. This plugin is to add strokes and other effects to objects or texts.ġ. Layers Effects (save or move this to the plugins folder) G’MIC(this plugin has its own installation wizard and will install on its own once you let it.)Ĭ. Animstack(save or move this to the scripts folder)ī. If you can’t save them directly there, just save it to Documents first,Īnd then copy/paste or move those files to the respective folders inĪ. Scripts and plugins to make your GIMP work more like Photoshop.Ĭlicking on these links below will automatically bring up a ‘save’ pop ![]() They both do the same things as KM player.
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