[ILUG] Image Slide Show

[PhilipQuinlan]

Thomas Rooney wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I would like to make a small animation for a web site, just a series of
> images fading in and out and the repeating. I would normally do this
> sort of thing in photo shop and export the results as a gif but for this
> project I have set my self the goal of only using FOSS tools for the job.
Gimp if you wish to play with a graphical tool

Or from the glorious ImageMagick Library to convert all the frames in 
the stills directory into an animation sorted *alphabetically*
convert -delay 40 -loop 0 stills/*.gif >web_file.anim.gif

 0 loop infinitely
delay is in 1/100 seconds
There are many options man convert for details (note: it can do just 
about any batch image processing job you care to mention so prepare for 
extraneous reading which may come in useful if you work with images a lot )

Hope that helps, Philip
>
> The end result should be an object that can be embedded in a web page.
>
> Can anyone on the list recommend the right tools for the job.
>
> I have seen a project called GNASH (I think that's what its called) that
> is supposed to be a open source implementation of flash has anybody
> ever used it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>