Metuchen High School: GIMP

15. Animated GIF #2

5 points

This exercise provides an introduction to creating animated GIFs, with Blend.

Here are the 4 images I began with:

This is the complete GIF, with Blend:

• The first step in creating an animated GIF with Blend is to locate or create several images that are related to each other.  (I used 4 images of a tree in each of the seasons.)  First create a new project. Then use Open as Layers to add each image to the project; this puts each image on its own layer. The Blend feature adds intermediate frames between the images that you added to the project. These intermediate frames make the final animation look smoother.

• Begin setting up the animation: Filters > Animation > Blend. Choose how many intermediate frames you want GIMP to put between each of the original images. Try 10 - 15 frames. After the intermediate frames are created, you can choose Edit Layer Attributes for each layer and specify how many milliseconds the layer should display.

• To view the animated GIF: Filters > Animation > Playback and click the Play button.

• To create a standalone animated GIF: File > Export. Under Select File Type, choose GIF. Click Export. In the "Export Image as GIF" panel, you can select Loop Forever.  For "Frame disposal where unspecified," choose One Frame Per Layer.  Click "Use disposal entered above for all frames".  Click Export.

   

  Exercise

  Create an animated GIF with 4+ slides. Use the Blend feature to add additional frames and make the animation smoother.

   

  Video

  YouTube video on using Blend in GIMP