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Posts of topic : Gap For Animated Gif Author Post details NYCking123 Member Profile Joined: Jan 20, 2007 Posts: 4 posted on: Jan 20, 2007 at 11:56:58 wow this is one of the best tutorials i have ever seen Shininggun4091 Member Profile Joined: Jan 27, 2007 Posts: 28 posted on: Jan 31, 2007 at 12:34:38 thats very wierd Invalid signature: Only one image is allowed in signature Shomari Member Profile Joined: Feb 05, 2007 Posts: 7 posted on: Feb 12, 2007 at 02:47:56 where can i download it and how ----Current---- sbicknel Member Profile Joined: Sep 21, 2006 Posts: 23 posted on: Feb 12, 2007 at 05:46:43 ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/plug-ins/v2.2/gap is where the source code is. If you are using Windows you can get it at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-win/gimp-gap-2.2.0-setup.zip. Shomari Member Profile Joined: Feb 05, 2007 Posts: 7 posted on: Feb 16, 2007 at 05:32:06 how and where do i save it ----Current---- sbicknel Member Profile Joined: Sep 21, 2006 Posts: 23 posted on: Feb 16, 2007 at 06:13:27 If you are using Windows, there is a setup program you use to install it. If not, you extract the source code and compile it. Instructions for both are in the tutorial. The Windows files are contained in zip archives. You have to extract them before running the setup program. sbicknel Member Profile Joined: Sep 21, 2006 Posts: 23 posted on: Feb 16, 2007 at 06:15:35 Just save the downloaded files to your desktop. You can run the setup from there if you are using Windows and you can extract the tarball there if you are using another system, like Linux. sbicknel Member Profile Joined: Sep 21, 2006 Posts: 23 posted on: Feb 16, 2007 at 06:25:19 The Windows GIMP-Gap files at sourceforge appear to be broken. At least, on my system they don't download correctly. Is anyone else having this problem? I emailed the project owner about it. guppyman Member Profile Joined: May 12, 2007 Posts: 34 posted on: May 29, 2007 at 10:00:40 Thanks for this... Career and job resources Photography tutorials and tips Plomos Member Profile Joined: Jun 03, 2007 Posts: 157 posted on: Jun 10, 2007 at 07:14:42 I looked at the Windows site and it says i need Gimp 2.2.8 or higher but the most stable version of it is 2.2.15 so will it work? am i just an idiot and .15 version is higher than the 2.8 version? well i tried it out and it works i'm just dumb sometimes lol current "Most days you only get one chance to do it right." sbicknel Member Profile Joined: Sep 21, 2006 Posts: 23 posted on: Jun 14, 2007 at 02:24:43 Thanks for the input. I updated the tutorial to clarify this point. Version numbers are not like mathematical numbers. In math 1.15 is a smaller number than 1.2. Version numbers are sequential, so that versions 1.3 through 1.14 come after version 1.2 and before version 1.15. This forces you to examine carefully which version of a file you are downloading when offered several. That's why download repositories often highlight the most recent version to make it easier to identify at a glance. PhotoComix Manager Profile Joined: Jun 13, 2005 Posts: 6258 posted on: Jun 14, 2007 at 03:03:04 QUOTE: I looked at the Windows site and it says i need Gimp 2.2.8 or higher but the most stable version of it is 2.2.15 Latest stable version ,at the moment, IS 2.2.15 and 2.2.8 is older. I can't understand your reference to a "windows side" but Gap could be installed in latest stable Gimp with not issues http://www.flickr.com/photos/97844002@N00/ iPraise Member Profile Joined: Jun 25, 2007 Posts: 5 posted on: Jun 25, 2007 at 09:23:00 Here's what I got: I got SO lost in it. ~~~~~~~~~~Newest~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Member Profile Joined: Dec 08, 2006 Posts: 9 posted on: Jun 29, 2007 at 01:02:16 okay...so I have a question about this simple animation...just from frame to frame. When I PLAYBACK the three frames that I want to animate, they look nice and clear. Here are my three layers for example: But when I OPTIMIZE it for animationa and save it as GIF...it ends up looking all grainy like this: Can someone help me to make the images not look so grainy? Is there anyway to fix it? Thanks, Beth sbicknel Member Profile Joined: Sep 21, 2006 Posts: 23 posted on: Jun 29, 2007 at 01:30:18 The problem you are having is that when you save as GIF there are only 256 colors available. Your three images have very different colors and a lot of them, which creates a problem. The GIMP has to map your image's millions of color to only 256, which invariably produces a grainy effect. Photographic images usually don't work well in GIF format for this reason. You can reduce some of the graininess by using images with similar colors. Beth Member Profile Joined: Dec 08, 2006 Posts: 9 posted on: Jun 29, 2007 at 01:48:18 okay thank you. I appreciate it...and you have a really good tutorial...I was beating my brain about GAP (and I've had GIMP over a year) and animation...but yours steps are easy to follow PhotoComix Manager Profile Joined: Jun 13, 2005 Posts: 6258 posted on: Jun 29, 2007 at 02:25:10 QUOTE: The problem you are having is that when you save as GIF there are only 256 colors available. Your three images have very different colors and a lot of them, which creates a problem. The GIMP has to map your image's millions of color to only 256, which invariably produces a grainy effect More Gif quality is very very low Same images if indexed in 256 colours but saved as Png (or even as not compressed jpg) would have look a bit "posterized" but much nicer Problem is that PNG (as jpg ) doesn't handle animation...only option for animation is gif or some video format (but then it has no sense save a 3 frames ,or even a 30 frames ,animation as AVI, mpg or other video format...) Note also that OPTIMIZE is a tricky word...to be a bit optimized ais the file SIZE but quality of image is greatly damaged by the process...this is not too visible if you don't change the position of the layers...but if you just reverse it, or you browse layer 1 by one, you can notice how much is downgraded However there is not way out ...or gif (only solution for very short animation, avatar and animated sig) or Video format. This is not a limit of Gimp or Gap but a general limit http://www.flickr.com/photos/97844002@N00/ sbicknel Member Profile Joined: Sep 21, 2006 Posts: 23 posted on: Jul 01, 2007 at 12:35:06 QUOTE: okay thank you. I appreciate it...and you have a really good tutorial...I was beating my brain about GAP (and I've had GIMP over a year) and animation...but yours steps are easy to follow Thanks. Yoshiki Member Profile Joined: Aug 17, 2007 Posts: 11 posted on: Aug 23, 2007 at 03:23:39 I don't get it. How do you change a picture to make the eyes move or his hand move? I have to draw it!? I can't do that there's no way. Newb but a future genius!! PhotoComix Manager Profile Joined: Jun 13, 2005 Posts: 6258 posted on: Aug 23, 2007 at 10:49:33 I took the example of the eyes...if you want the pupil to move you have to 1) have a layer with the eyes with no pupils (you can remove them with something as clone tools) 2) Have the pupils on their layer 3 ) duplicate that layers how much time is needed (more layers, more smooth animation but bigger file size) 4) read the tut again to see how to use Move Path to move the pupil layers http://www.flickr.com/photos/97844002@N00/ mlh_94 Member Profile Joined: Sep 02, 2007 Posts: 1 posted on: Sep 03, 2007 at 02:26:37 Hey could someone help me?? how can you make your phot look like a cartoon adn can u show me th steps plss thx!!! ace150 Member Profile Joined: Feb 20, 2008 Posts: 10 posted on: Mar 05, 2008 at 06:23:20 Very great tut.