![]() Moreover, you should make sure that your Gif consists of max. Now you can of course open the animated Gif-picture in Gimp, e.g. Open the program, open the short movie scene and convert it to a Gif (Gif = animated picture). Now click on the link and download the program "MovieToAGif.exe". ![]() Then render it to a regular video format such as ".avi", ".wmv" or ".mpeg". Open the video program / online video editing tool and open the movie scene you want to use. if the movie scene is longer than 4 seconds: a video program such as Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas, or an online video editing tool Make an animated avatar out of a movie scene This is what I did - just take a look at my avatar and you see the result. It's up to you which speed you choose here.ĭone! Now you can upload your new animated picture everywhere, even use it as an avatar. Here, you can choose the speed of how fast the pictures will be shown one after the other. Then click "Export".Īgain, a new window will appear. Here you have to click "Save as Animation". This is very important, because otherwise it won't work! Give the picture a name and make sure to replace the ending (which will probably be ".xcf") with ".gif". To save the file, click "File" -> "Save as". Just arrange the pictures per drag-and-drop into the right order. ![]() The layer on the bottom will be shown first, then the layer on top of it, and so on. Take a look at the toolbox on the right side named "Layers, Channels, Paths, Undo". The more pictures you have in the end, the smoother the movement will look. drag it a bit to the left or to the right to make it move. Now you have copied the picture and can edit the copy, e.g. If you have only one picture and you want to make it move, rightclick on the layer in the toolbox "Layers, Channels, Paths, Undo" and click "Duplicate Layer". If you already have multiple pictures and you want them to be shown one after the other in the end, just go on to Step 3. To make the picture(s) move, we need different layers. Afterwards, click "Image" -> "Canvas to Layers" or click "Image" -> "Screen Size" to choose the size yourself. If a picture is too large, click "Layer" -> "Level scaling" and choose a size that is not larger than 100 x 100 px. The picture(s) should not be larger than 100 x 100 px, otherwise it won't work. Here, you can now draw the picture you want your animation to start with, using the Pencil or the Paintbrush from the "Toolbox" on the left side. If you want to create an own animation, click "File" -> "New File", so that Gimp will open a plain white quadrangle. Open Gimp and open the picture(s) you want to animate. (- the picture(s) you want to animate - not necessary if you want to create an own animated picture.) You can either (a) make one out of pictures or (b) out of a movie scene. I’ve never found anything that I could do in Photoshop 7.AwieattiThere are two ways to make animated avatars. I’d consider myself, formerly, to have been a reasonably skilled user of Photoshop, up to Version 7 (so many features got added after version 7, and name changes)… I used Photoshop from about Version 3.x on Macs and Windows 3.1… Wanted to mark up photo for you guys with notes, arrows and thought bubble – er not with Gimp! Nor export optimizer either. Using Curves drag the left hand corner of the graph to the right and notice how the picture improves greatly before your eyes! Oops, all detail on the blackboard and dark areas have vanished so use the dodge tool to magic this detail back – hey presto job done - save image. I force myself to use (FOSS) GIMP most of the time even though Shotwell organizer will adjust, crop and rotate or level the horizon – and revert back too! So here goes with a well over exposed rubbish photo. ( admin please delete this post if inappropriate - thanks) Serif now produce I presume to be first class easy to use Affinity products. Hey or is it as you imply the complexity of Gimp that puts you off? Hope I can change this for the better and if allowed can I paste in here some none FOSS photo edit software that runs okay under wine? PhotoPlus from Serif which was cheap enough in it’s day at £20.
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