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Showing posts with label GIMP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GIMP. Show all posts

Creating Animations in GIMP

 

This article and video is a bit more artistic / creative compared to more of the recent ones. Most recently we've been exploring server-side services and writing scripts. This article looks to tackle creating GIF animations using GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program).

The video above plays pretty quick because I just created a very simple scene for demo purposes. The possibilities are really infinite. You could use those same steps to make a banner add for your company, or create a web animation that plays on load of a website. It could also be used for doing some animations with Apps like on iOS or Android (though GIFs in Android need a webview to run). Even something as simple as just quick UI or text tutorials can be done - that's how I made the simple animations in my BASH script blogs. 

Hope this can be helpful for some of you out there. I think GIMP is a wonderful tool - unfortunate name, but wonderful tool - that really can do some outstanding photo and image manipulation. It's also open source and free to use on Windows, Linux and MacOS so if you learn it once you can use it anywhere.

Final image from the tutorial - playing around with the number of frames and delay between frames (currently 180 ms) can create a smoother playback.

SpaceAnimation


GIMP tutorial



This is a tutorial about one of the most popular open source and free image editing programs around - GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). It's a powerful image editing tool with paths, color management, and layers. While perhaps not 100% on the scale of Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom, it does offer a great deal of functionality.

GIMP is available on most desktop platforms, including Linux, Windows, and macOS. Hope the overview is helpful to get those with and those without any image editing experience started.

Download GIMP
https://www.gimp.org/downloads/


Learn more:
https://www.gimp.org/docs/
https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

iPhone image source:
https://techupdatess.com/its-time-to-take-googles-pixel-phones-more-seriously-engadget/
(again not mine, just used for the tutorial)

Since GIMP has been around for more than two decades, a great deal more information is available. I hope this is a good first overview of the basics.