[ILUG] web amusements...

[David Neary]

kevin lyda wrote:
> oh, and of course images/use.linux.gif is an animated gif that is
> transparent for 55 seconds and then displays "use linux!" in a large
> blue font for 5 seconds.  :)
> 
> and the way to create animated gifs is to put each frame in a layer in
> the gimp.  pick any name for each layer, but make sure each layer ends
> with (XXXms) where XXX is the number of milliseconds the frame displays.
> then use the animation tool to export the animation.

Nice trick.

One thing - to save an image as an animated GIF (for example),
you just do a save as, and set the extension to .gif - you should
get a dialog asking whether you want to merge visible layers or
save as an animation. I believe that you can also specify the
extension as .mpg or .mpeg if you've got the mpeg plug-in built.

Cheers,
Dave.

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       David Neary,
    Marseille, France
  E-Mail: bolsh at gimp.org