How Do You Create An Animated GIF?
• Determine whether or not you want to download the program. • GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It’s a free, open-source image editing program. You can download it at Gimp.org if you don’t already have it. This tutorial assumes you have a basic knowledge of the program, which you can get from the documentation section of the product website or from online tutorials. • Create a series of images in separate frames using the GIMP. A good way to do this is to draw the first one, and then duplicate the layer and edit it. • For instance, if you were going to make an animation of the word “animation” typing one letter at a time, you could create the “a” and then duplicate the layer. Then you would edit the second layer to read “an.” Each new layer would add one letter to the sequence. • If your animation uses images that aren’t as closely related, you can create each layer separately. • Optimize the images by running the GIF optimization filter, if desired. • To do this, click
