".gif" animation with gimp !?

[mechanicaldesign]

Hello to everibody,

Can somebody tell me how I can create some ".gif" animation using multiple layers, like pictures (.jpg, .png,etc.).

I waiting yours suggestions, opinions and ideas.

Thank you in advance for yours supports.

Best regards.

[kaibob]

I don't know how to create animated gif's with gimp. You can do it with the Imagemagick convert utility as shown below. You have to change *.png to *.jpg or whatever applies.

convert -delay 100 -loop 0 *.png output.gif

BTW, I'm not sure what you mean when you refer to multiple layers. Perhaps I don't understand what you want to do.

[mechanicaldesign]

Hi kaibob,

Maybe my explication is not clear, admit this. In fact I have 30 pictures, which I want to assembly in an animation. This animation I want to be ".gif" format. I hope in this moment everything is very clear for all people who want to help me and to offer me an real support.

I waiting yours suggestions, opinions and ideas.

Thank you in advance for yours supports.

Best regards.

[kaibob]

Hi kaibob,

Maybe my explication is not clear, admit this. In fact I have 30 pictures, which I want to assembly in an animation. This animation I want to be ".gif" format. I hope in this moment everything is very clear for all people who want to help me and to offer me an real support.

I waiting yours suggestions, opinions and ideas.

Thank you in advance for yours supports.

Best regards.

The command line I included in my earlier post will do exactly what you want.

[mechanicaldesign]

Hi kaibob,

I try the command indicated by you, but I obtained a gif picture, not a gif animation. I need maybe an command which I can create an gif animation with my pictures.

Best regards.

[kaibob]

I have used the command in the past to create animated gifs, and ran a test with a few jpg files just a few minutes ago, so I know that it does work. Are you sure that you are using a viewer that will display animated gifs? Not all do. Try opening the gif in firefox.

[emigrant]

@ mechanicaldesign as far as i know this is impossible in gimp.
you have to have adobe photoshop and adobe imagready (CS).
once the layers are set in the proper order in PS, take them to IR (by clicking go to image ready at the bottom of the tool box).
there in the animation window click the arrow button at the top right corner and select 'make frames from layers" and you see all your layers are brought in to the animation window.
and also you can set the timing for each frame.
now if you click play, all the frames would play,

NB: iv tried installing PS and IR (IR CS usually automatically get installed along with PS CS if you are in windows) through wine in fedora and ended up in only PS working.
not sure how it goes in ubuntu.

the only option is to do it in MS.

hope that helps.

[braete]

EASY
just put the pics you want to animate in different layers and in the layer name add at the end

(100ms)

or any other delay you want(in ms). that will be the time the animation displays that frame

also from the filters menu, chose animation then do both optimizations to get smaller files

edit: dont forget at the end to save in .gif format
i usualy forget ahaha

[emigrant]

wow so this is one of the things i ever wondered to do in linux and is now there in gimp

[mechanicaldesign]

Hello to everibody,

I made the gif animation.

I will put here the very steps which I followed to made the gif animations.

But not now. Tomorrow.

Best regards