Making GIF animations

[Michael1968]

Making simple gif animations with your Phicens etc is quite easy.

Willendorph has an excellent tutorial here https://www.dollforum.com/forum/viewtop ... 5#p1576275

and it is where I got my interest to put my free copy of GIMP 2.0 software to use. Gimp is very much like photoshop minus the expense as it is an open source program and free to download.

So get into it and join in with the photo challenges it's fun

[scooter_ca]

I used GIMP for all my early photoshoots with Daria.
It's powerful, free, and there are gazillions of tutorials.
Plus it runs on Linux as well as Windows, so.... It's a good way to wean yourself away from Microsoft.

Thanks,
scooter

[Michael1968]

I need to learn more about Linux as a prelude to departing Microshop forever.

I was amazed how easy making gifs in Gimp is. The hard part in the Hobbits gif was the time and the sore muscles in the lumbar region - but that's because of my set up. I'll improve that.

Approximately 175 photos and at least an hour (felt like longer) of stop and shoot for the Hobbits dancing.

all I do is
1) take 2 or more photos
2) open Gimp
3) Click File then Open as layers...
4) Chose the pics and click Open
5) Click File then Export as...
6) enter a file name with the extension .gif - eg; Hobbit.gif and select the folder you want to save it in.
7)Click Export
then in the dialog box that appears choose a few options

Check * as animation

(if you want to repeat endlessly select * Loop forever

then select the amount of time (in miliseconds) between each image. I think I selected 200 miliseconds for each frame of the Hobbits gif but you can experiment with it.

then I check "Use delay entered above for all frames"

Then finally click EXPORT

and that's it. GIF Complete