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How to create an Animated GIF with GIMP (video tutorial)

This is a basic tutorial on how to animate a GIF image using the GIMP.

When I say Jiff I'm referring to GIF, that IS how it is meant to be pronounced. It was clarified by the inventors of the format look it up.

How to create an Animated GIF with GIMP





0:00 okay this is another video tutorial on

0:04 how to create a animated gif image using

0:09 the an animated gif is like this

0:15 like a um a jiff that moves around woo

0:22 okay first open up your and then go

0:27 to file new and let's just make the

0:31 width - lets just make it 200 by 150

0:35 pixels okay then uh when that's open go

0:40 over to your layers thing if you don't

0:42 have a layers just go to dialogs layers

0:44 then it should already have a background

0:47 um it sure I have a white background

0:51 just right uh no don't right-click just

0:54 have that re selected then click

0:57 duplicate layer however many slides you

0:59 want you know however many times you

1:03 wanted to switch so let's just do a
1:04 small for one so it's go one two three 1:07 four out made four so that and then 1:11 rename them to easier stuff like right 1:13 click edit layer attribute let's call 1:16 the first one frame one and the second 1:22 one frame to a third one frame three and 1:31 the fourth one frame four okay then um 1:40 go to frame one I just always click 1:43 these little eyes so they don't appear 1:44 over my picture yeah cuz they'll go over 1:48 your picture so when you're on frame one 1:49 if it makes sure that you have these 1:51 eyes on clicked underneath the ones 1:54 above it okay now let's start drawing 1:59 okay for frame one let's click the 2:01 paintbrush just going to be a really 2:02 easy one so don't feel good sucks it 2:05 obviously it sucks I'm trying to fit it 2:06 into the time YouTube a lot so 2:09 here we go okay let's just draw a little 2:12 stick figure guy click hold shift to 2:15 draw a straight line by the way click 2:17 shift and my head let's fill that in 2:27 paintbrush ok slave 2:43 I mean frame one is that on on click the 2:47 little eye and click the little eye on 2:48 the next one up let's make this stickman 2:52 going like this 2:53 whoops oh that's that's just because I 2:56 accidentally had the one below it's 2:58 still selected so I'll control Z there 3:00 we go now let's do it 3:13 okay just about done and Paint Bucket 3:20 then I right-click select none $2 3:25 another stickman let's unclick the I 3:28 click then click that okay just have to 3:32 quick make this mean it's not a big I'd 3:38 love to make another one more stick man 3:41 and a circle hey making circles in this 3:46 out if there's an easier way or not but 3:49 that's the way I do it so not really 3:52 carry right click select whoops I'm just 3:58 going to control Z that really quick 4:00 okay now let's create another one arms 4:06 okay now last frame for this animation 4:11 let's just put the whoops 4:20 clip stick that upside down man ah 4:25 circle fill it in paintbrush right click 4:35 select none let's draw some arms okay 4:42 there go it's pretty good for an ax fish 4:44 okay it's not that good but anyway now 4:48 we can test our animation by going to 4:50 dial 4:51 uh no not filters and animation and 4:54 playback they just click placed off and 4:57 notice it's going really fast so if you 5:01 want to go slower per frame and here's 5:03 what we do go to UM go to your go to 5:10 your frame that you want to play longer 5:12 and then right click on it edit layer 5:13 attribute and space and then put a 5:16 starting parenthesis then put them out 5:20 of time you want in milliseconds a 5:22 millisecond is one thousandth of a 5:24 second so say you want a one second just 5:27 put 1000 milliseconds whoops 5:30 for 1000 MS and then click OK 5:34 and then uh let's just make them all 5:37 last for one set and say you want if you 5:40 want two seconds then it's just uh if I 5:43 1 2 seconds as to 2000 milliseconds if I 5:48 want like if I want one and a half I 5:50 just do one thousand five hundred 5:51 milliseconds okay and then uh and then 5:59 you just do that and delete on you a 500 6:02 that's one half a millisecond I mean 6:04 that's one half second then let's just 6:08 make the last one two seconds 6:14 okay okay now let's uh filters animation 6:19 playback play stop scene arts going nice 6:23 and slow it's going the exact bow that 6:25 you specified well it's so awesome 6:30 anyway okay now here's how you save your 6:34 up you can make it as big as you want as 6:37 long as you follow what I did I just did 6:38 it for a small one but you could add as 6:40 many frames you want to do it if you 6:41 want it can I just go to file - save it 6:45 as an animated gif then you go save as 6:48 and I'm just going to save it on my 6:50 desktop because it's where you save 6:52 everything oh whoops 6:54 okay there we go now I can either just 6:59 type in your name dot jiff you can I'm 7:02 just a native animation - because I 7:06 already have an animation cuz I was 7:08 testing this to make sure I remembered 7:09 I'd do it I can either I'll click on 7:11 this down here let's just click on it 7:14 down there or whatever okay so that's to 7:17 be jiff has to be a jiff I just click 7:20 Save then I will be like old roof can't 7:23 handle late layers that can only handle 7:27 layers as animation frames then you just 7:29 click the save as animation radio button 7:31 that stuff doesn't matter and click 7:34 export and it done this stuff I don't 7:38 think any of this matters only if this 7:40 what this is is um if you didn't type in 7:43 these weird parentheses with 2000 7:45 milliseconds and stuff and if you want 7:48 to set them out for all of them you 7:49 don't want to type that in you can just 7:50 type the number in right there and I'll 7:51 make it all the same time for each one 7:53 these click OK and my animation is now 7:57 on the desktop so then I just right 7:59 click preview I know it's an aunt now 8:02 you can like upload it to photo bucket 8:04 and put on your forum or something 8:06 anyway that's it that's how you do it's 8:09 pretty easy
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