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Animated gif in gimp 2.8.224/1/2023 Position where you would like the 2nd frame of the animation to be byĮither click and drag with the mouse, or click on the stack and use theĪRROW keys to move the stack one pixel in the arrow direction per press of theĪfter you have the stack positioned to where you would like the 2nd frame Next use the MOVE tool and move the LINKED layer stack to the Into position, while leaving the other layers in the stack LINKED so they In upwards order, set your mouse pointer on the bottom Since the GIF animation displays from the Bottom of the layer stack and Using the MOVE tool, move the entire layer stack to where you would like the first frame to display in the animation. Now that the layers in the stack are all LINKED, they will all move at the same time when using the MOVE tool (or the ROTATE tool, or will all be affected by several other transformation tools). In a GIF animation, the 1st layer to be displayed is the bottom layer in the GIMP layers stack, with the last to be displayed at the top of the stack. In GIMP, the top visible layer is the layer shown in front of the other visible layers on the screen. You should now see the link chains on all layers. (between the 'eye' and the small layer icon in the Layers window). The shortcut to do this is: hold the SHIFT key down, click on the LINK area to the left of any layers icon in the Layers box. Of the subject on the screen, as the duplicated layers have been stacked on top ofĮach other when they were created. Since the layers were all duplicates of the original, you should only see one copy Should are visible with the 'eye' showing next to them in the Layers tab window. With your resized canvas, check that all your layers The click the Resize button (shown in the image). Since you will be moving the subject layers to make the animation, there is no reason to click theĬenter option (but it doesn't matter if you do) and for the Layers option just use 'Resize layers: None' GIMP menu bar take Image > Canvas SizeĪnd set a new width and height (for this tutorial I have used 2000 x 20000) Now is a good time to resize (enlarge) your canvas so there will be room for the Now down at the bottom of the Layers box, find the Duplicate Layer button and click it as many times as When it is the active layer, the box around the layer's icon turns into a bold white square. Set your subject layer active by clicking on its icon in the Layers box. (you can add more during the process or remove the extras when your movement has been completed) When the layers have been placed to create the motion and everything is ready,Īfter the gif has been created, you can scale the image down to about 750 by 750 pixels to help keep the image file size low.Įstimate how many copies of the subject layer you might need. ![]() I will be using a subject layer size in pixels of 200 by 200 and a canvas size of 2000 width by 20000 height. To start, choose a subject and isolate it from it's background, or start with an image with a transparent layer and draw your subject. This simple tutorial does not use shadows or make adjustments for the laws of physics, it is just a 2D subject moving on the X (left and right) and Y (up and down) axis. Shows how duplicating your subject layer and using LINKS and the MOVE tool can make creating a Gif animation fast and fun.
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