You can check the result on any animation point by navigating to it (using next and previous or other buttons) and clicking on the update preview button. Now change the width, height and opacity back to 100%. Notice how the status above the button changed to current key. Now add a new animation point by clicking on the add point button. For the first animation point use the following parameters: x:157, y:74, width:800, height:800, opacity:20. First, we’ll zoom out the logo so it appears to fly away from the observer and combine that with opacity increase.

I have used center, so use that if you’re going to stick with the parameters provided here.įor the logo we’ll animate two parameters. In the dialog, select the logo image as source and make sure you set the stepmode to none! Keep the mode as normal and choose some handle mode. Make sure you have the static image open but use the function on the white background image. Now it’s time to use the move path function. We’ll create a 20 frame animation, so the first thing will be to copy the first frame 19 times using the video/duplicate frames function. GAP has series of functions to help you manage frames. You don’t have to copy the file yourself to add a frame. xcf images, so that you can work with layers the same way as you do in static images. The rest needs to be exactly the way shown. Create a separate directory for the file, it will fill with many frame files soon. To be able to work with GAP you need to save it in GIMP’s native format. This will create a new white image we’ll use as a base for our animation. Now drag the background layer from the static image to the GIMP toolbar. Gimp will download the compressed image and open it for you. In GIMP, choose Open Location from the toolbox File menu and paste the URL there. In case this doesn’t work for you, copy the link by selecting Copy Target or Copy Link Location from the image context menu accessible by right-clicking on the image. To load it into GIMP, just drag the image above to the GIMP toolbox.

To make things easier, we’ll start with a ready-to-go static image. Please go to the “ Using GAP” tutorial to learn more about the tool. The key function of the GAP is the move path dialog. That’s why we’ll start with a little theory before we move over to the practical part.

It is very advanced, but the user interface might be confusing for some at first. Here you’ll learn how to use the GAP, GIMP animation package. Welcome to the advanced GIMP animation tutorial. Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Jakub Steiner and may not be used without permission of the author.

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