How to Animate (Gimp)

[Flygon999]

Step 1: Open up a banner that you have.

Step 2: Go to File > Open as Layers > (pick a banner with the same size)

Step 3: Make sure that your layers window is out, to see it, go to Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Layers

Step 4: At the bottom of your layers window, click the white square at bottom left, then click "ok". This makes you a new layer. You should always have an invisible layer in between your banners for better quality.

you should have this:

Step 5: Go to Filters > Animation > Blend.

This will pop up:

make the settings exactly like this, except for the Intermediate frames part, you can use as many from (recommended) 5-15. Make sure the Looped box is checked, then click OK.

Step 6: To see a preview, go to Filters > Animation > Playback. Save as .gif

Step 7 (optional but highly recommended): In your layers box, find the two layers that are the completely visible ones. Rename them both as (2000ms). Before, they were probably Frame 10 and Frame 1. To rename, double click.

you should get this:

without step 7:

with step 7:

 

[raichupika33]

Thank you So much for opening this! This can help me on Gimp now after I made by awful banner.

2 questions though:

1) Evertime I want text it shuts the whole thing down. How do I prevent it from doing this?
2) On Step 6, what file? The orignal one or the preview one?

 

[Flygon999]

1) You mean it shuts down gimp?

2) Do the step 6 after you've finished the whole thing, before you close down gimp.

 

[NerdSparks]

Added to tutorial list