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Hi,
  I was wondering how I might go about recreating something like this:

http://lostinwonderlandxx.tumblr.com/post/10064605078

My concerns lie only with the excution (i.e. making gifs, possibly from video clips, sizing of gifs and canvas so everything is equal, etc.) and not the coloring. :) As detailed as possible would be great; I'm rusty with GIMP and even worse with animations. I use Windows and GIMP 2.2.4.  Thanks!

Hey everyone - I'm new this community and fairly new to GIMP.

While browsing the community I noticed that there are several members (including myself) looking for a comprehensive tutorial for GIMP GAP (specifically video GIF projects). After much searching I finally found one on Deviant Art. It is a fantastic, easy-to-understand tutorial.

Enjoy, and leave fabulous comments :)

Gimp GAP Tutorial

Hi! I've been using GIMP for 3 months now, and I've really been enjoying the questions and answers posted here so far. I've learned some wonderful things. I have a few questions about making animated .gifs, and I looked through the animated gif tag, as well -- those helped me get to this point! Thanks. :)

I made this icon yesterday, for someone's request:



I used GIMP 2.6, with the GAP plug-in to extract the original frames.

Here's basically what I did:
**I selected every third frame and cut a big section out of the middle to get just Juliet's kiss and Shawn's eye close. This took it to 14 frames.
**Then I resized to 80x80, and changed the canvas back to 100x100 to add a white background
**I went through every individual frame and lightened it using curves (SO time-consuming)
**I duplicated the first and last frames two times and merged white layers at 33% and 66% opacity to get the fade in and fade out. Now the icon had 18 frames.
**I optimized for GIF and set the frame rate to the speed I wanted
**I set the colors to indexed. I kept playing with the number of colors until I reached 40, which finally made it small enough for LJ (It's 38K now)

But it's way too pixelated for my taste. I know I've seen icons of this length which seem to have no loss in color. I'm assuming they were made in Photoshop, or something else... but is this possible in GIMP?

Here are my specific questions:

1) Is there a way to use curves, saturation, frames overlay, etc. on all layers at once? Doing it frame by frame is REALLY time-consuming (and hurts my wrist, lol)

2) How do I limit the colors without getting this sort of pixelation? Am I doing something out of order?

If you have the answer to even one of these, you'll be oodles of help.

This might be an idiotic question but, I just downloaded GAP and I can't figure out the folder into which I'm supposed to extract it. Does it just go in the main GIMP folder under Program Files or one of the sub-folders? *confused* (I'm on Windows, by the way.)

Thanks in advance.

I was wondering if any of you could help me.

I'm trying to install the GIMP animation plug-in but have gotten completely lost, I found a download link and it downloaded a load of files but the instructions to install confused me beyond belief!

Help?

Hello. This is my first time posting here, because I can't figure out how to do this on my own. I have followed several links to a page (located here: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/st… ), but all I see is a download for the latest version of GIMP.

At the downloads page of the GIMP site, I click on the link to download GAP, but it takes me to what appears to be an index page. Clicking on links does not take me to a download page, it just opens a file. Is this right?

I had no trouble whatsoever installing GIMP, so I am not sure why I can't find and install GAP. I've already checked the tags 'gap' and 'animation', and didn't have any luck finding a solution there. Thanks so much if you can help!

I really would like to learn to use GAP, till now I just played around with the morph-function. Does any one know some good tutorials? I want to make animated icons.

Okay I may sound like an idiot asking this, but how do you install GAP? Everytime I download the file it won't open, and says that the file type isn't supported by the browser. Now I maybe a little behind the times, I'm running Windows XP, but shouldn't it open with GIMP once it's downloaded.

Any help would be greatly appreciated seeing as I'm new to the program.