GIMP Tutorial: Colour Cycle Animated Gif

[SilverFurTheCat]

On the part where you make sure that it says "one frame per layer (replace), it doesn't do anything unless you click the bottom box- "use disposal above for all frames." just helping. Did a little experimenting around and figured it out.

[ionutzu94]

woow thanks.you help me aloot:)

[TristanSkene]

I love the vid dude im using a Mac OS X and i follow the vid precisely but when i save i click "save as animation" and i noticed at the bottom of that window there are check boxes for making the image greyscale or indexed i left it as indexed just as you did but when i reopen it the animation wont play and the pic in the animation which i did not change the colour of, the colours have gone blotchy as if it were pop art :( Plz help me . but other than my epic fail i love your vids :)

[DANGERouslySASSY]

how can u make it where u can use it on other site

[Finchwing]

thanks so much! This helped alot :D

[frediboy1304]

my animation runs over each other. what can i do ?

[GimpBegginner]

Thanks man that's a load of help! Luv ur tuts! :D

[chelsimmons]

It'd be awesome if you made a tutorial about creating a droste image on gimp just like yours. Its so much easier to follow a video........

[africanman11]

@Malgalin I dont have a Layer box how can i get it back?????

[DarkDeathGhost]

@africanman11: windows>dockable dialogs>layers

it works for other boxes too, you just have to choose windows>dockable dialogs>(box you want)

You are welcome!

[chinnichinn75]

with me i do it all right and save it right but when i come 2 open it it dont wont :( plz help

[jeffdobbelf]

ur tuts are very helpful thanks man :D

[dustbean]

GREAT! Thanks

[ilovesushi12]

awesome thanks ill try it and will tell you if it works

[xxterxxorerxx2xx]

its pronounced "jif" not "gif"

[chickenbiscito]

@xxterxxorerxx2xx

really? i never "PRONOUNCE" it, being an acronym, I call it a G I F file

let me ask there since you know all about the "correct" pronunciation of acronyms that arent even really words... how do you pronounce .cbr files? lol, please i dont really want you to try to answer

[MrCobycola]

You Have Hairy Teeth Lol

[twilightlover15397]

do you have any idea how i could make the colors run slower ?

[MrKarppi]

just increase the amount of milliseconds per layer

[zolofdestroyer]

your tutorials have been really useful, especially since I can do these things without photoshop. There is nooo way I am going to spend that much money on software.

[cben96]

lol gimpible

[malgalin]

I am going to assume that you are a) American and b) Under 25 years old.

Next week: How to spell Aluminium.

[Gimpible]

yes american, and yes, im 14

[XxhilfmirxX]

that explains it.

god this made me laugh.. i dont even know why but that cracked me up

[Lagartija219]

@Gimpible no dude. The chap is BRITISH! Color is spelled "colour" in the UK. Come, come my boy!

[zeeck98]

yes thank u so much i no how to do it now with out all the video crap

[TheEnvelopeMan]

Thank you :)

[AMIDIOTLOL]

© Thanks u helped me ®

5/5 Stars !

[Killerclownmeat]

nice gif mate

[GronHatchat]

I LOVE YOUR ACCENT! I can do an impression of it, it's so awesome! And great video too, I'm trying to learn how to become the great Gimpmaster and this helped me alot! Thanx!

[Killerclownmeat]

correction, you can't

[wrightdkevin100]

Thanks for showing us how to create animated gifs - it was useful.

[FRUITCAKEYUM]

how do you get pictures for your pic displayon youtube? :/

[katuni08]

I've done crap like this using different programs to change the colors, then gone to pivot to have it cycle. This is so much more simple, because it cuts out like ten steps. Thanks muchly :)

[mzalldatnfabolous]

Thankz So Much. Great Explainer!

[jeppsywierdo06]

Colours> Threshold.

[szfehler]

i did this, but how to make it play? i tried to make it my profile picture here on youtube, but it's just a boring picture, not animated. Is there something else i need to do to make it play? Thanks again! I will be so sad when i get to the last tutorial!

[CrescentTwilight]

i dont think youtube accepts animated images

[jeppsywierdo06]

It does.

[77nova454]

excellent as usual

[caza909]

Woot thanks mwah!

[brelio20002]

Thank you so much for the tutorials!

They're helping me so much!!

I made a gif just like in your tutorial and it works fine on my pc BUT not when I upload it to Facebook.

What could I be doing wrong?

Thanks in advance^^v

[EBONiiZZLE]

u have an amazing accent =p lol. thanks for the tutorial! helped bunchesss

[malachy44]

can u make a video on how to make flyers/posters on gimp

[lopezpisces25]

where is the link?

[jodotdotdotb]

my one dint work it just stated the fist layer

[starwars6rulz]

Awesome! 5/5! Now I am going to make an awesome background on my phone!

[DarkMoon6]

thanks! your videos are very helpful!

and i gotta mention your voice and accent are sexy ;D

[OlekDw]

You cannot grasp the true form of this guy!

[waynev633]

can u do me a favour and im soz about my spelling dilexsik ok can u do a tutrol on making bodykits 4 cars on gimp ynk u very much plz reply cheers

[EeveeOfTheNight]

THANKYOU!^^

[ultragdogg23]

hey, how do i use different pics because every time i try it gave me trouble and then i had to control myself from attacking my PC loll!!!

[123456iambelial]

How did you make your picture going smaller inside your mouth?

That is pretty cool.

[RiniUsagi]

That is so AWSOME! 5/5 for sure, thanks a lot ^^ Now I can make animated stamps and icons DeviantART =)

[LipSmacker1995]

Thanks a mill...i could do it before but i always for got to do 1 frame per layer...thanks

[PascalKierdorf]

awesome man

It was a big help for me

Keep on like this

[xander900]

hey, im trying to copy an animated gif image onto a background, any idea how to do this in gimp?

[wacfilms]

how do I save the

Gif to my computer

so that when I open that pic it will

keep looping

[AwesomeGirl86]

What program are you using?

Photoshop or Illistrator? Or is it something else?

[AshleyTisdaleGreat]

gimP!?

[AwesomeGirl86]

Yeah, it dawned on me that it was made in GIMP. I guess I had one of those stupid question moments.

[annadigiovanni]

obviously read the title!

[AwesomeGirl86]

Oh, that, after I wrote that comment, I quickly discovered it was made in GIMP.

And, yeah, I was like, "Oops".

Of course I wanted to delete that comment, but it was too late. :(

[reecebullet]

XD!!!

[nightlife544]

Hello,

Ive seen people making certain parts of a picture animated while the other part is black and white. Could you please tell me how or tell me a link for a tut. Thanks!

dj-lil-ste [at] hotmail [couk]

[imthepod]

ok, so i can change the colour in the first layer, but the second, third, etc wont chamge for me.... help pls

[malgalin]

you need to select the appropriate layer in the layers dock and also ensure it is the uppermost visible layer, which can be done by clicking on the eyeball next to the layers to make the others invisible etc...

[imthepod]

i done dat bt it didnt wrk :(

[malgalin]

If you do everything I do in the tutorial it will work.

The only sugesstion I can make is that you record yourself doing it using camstudio, which can be downloaded for free, and showing me what is going wrong so I can help you more specifically.

If you do this, leave it as a video response to this video.

[imthepod]

kk check out the vid :P

[imthepod]

se the thing where you pressed *dupilcate layers?? i dont see that on mine... that side dont open for me, how do i open it?

[malgalin]

see my recovering lost docks tutorial

[stickers11]

yea same for me i dont see it

[imthepod]

if u go to the *file options* thers a option to re open it :P

[brickfilmer101]

At 6:05 (I think that's when) you can change "(combine)" to "(overlay)" which I find quite useful. It overlays the images over each other, and works great for GIF animations with an alpha channel, from what I've seen, it makes it look better on certain GIFs.

[cartoonfan365]

thnx for these awesome videos..i have gimp and

i know how to do a lot with gimp, but not this

kind of thing..thnx again :]]

[fridacaro]

I wish I could do that effect to my face.. SO COOL!

[jeffreynguyen]

haha thats cool but how do u do that picture??!?! i wanna know how to make the picture swirl. :)

[malgalin]

Follow Josh Sommers' tutorial on flickr...there is a link in the more info bar

[malgalin]

last time I checked, all the files he linked to were available for download. You need to ensure when they are unzipped that they go into the correct Gimp program folders in your c:

You need to paste a the text from a txt file that contains the drost code into the mathmap dialog box. As I remember that is also in the zipped folder, but you may have to download it from elsewhere on his flickr page...should be linked to if that is the case.

[GerardD102]

Hey, great tutorial, But I was wondering, Ive seen some pictures like yours but they turn and go into the picture and it keeps going and going if you know what I mean, like it would zoom into the mouth while turning around and it would keep going, do you know how to do that? :S

[malgalin]

you could do something like that as an animated gif using the same process described in this tutorial...instead of cycling through colours for each frame, rotate the image by a couple of degrees. As for zooming in while doing that, that may have been an illusion simply achieved by rotating an eye catching picture, but could be done with an incredibly high resolution picture so that it doesn't pixelate as you zoom and rotate...personally i wouldn't bother with the second process.

[GerardD102]

thanks =D also, I tried installing math map, while following the instructions on the guys flickr page, but I couldnt get past the part where it tells you to find "mathmap" and paste some more files into it :S

[mnemonic999]

Excellent tutorials, being a new user of GIMP I can make use of them. One problem I had with this tutorial, I can get the annimated gif to work on my desktop but when I upload to my youtube profile ( total size under 250kb) it just sits there and does nothing. I'm using GIMP 2.4.5 for Windows. Am I missing something?

[malgalin]

I've never actually tried to upload an animated gif to YouTube, but I did have a lot of problems with my profile page as a result of uploading a regular static image...YouTube can be very glitchy, I'm afraid...I don't have a solution to hand for you.

Sorry

[mnemonic999]

Thanks for the reply, thinking about it again I wonder if it is something that youtube does when it resizes the upload to 75x100 pixels. I might try a sries of uploads to check this out. Thanks again for your tutorials.

[MOSpr0ductz]

I have the same problem! If you find the answer, please tell me.

[lordvaladak]

Awesome I made a animation of me and subscribed!!!

[malgalin]

That's what I like to hear!

Glad you found it useful.

[mickeyford]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[HeadDominion]

hey do the actual cycle tutorial - not the animation one but the one where you scream inside yourself x infinity.

show how you made the actual image!

[malgalin]

I've thought about this, and decided against it.

An excellent tutorial already exists, by the guy that adapted the mathmap code. Check the video description for a link to it.

I don't want to steal credit for somebody elses hard work. Check out the tutorial on Josh Sommers' Flickr account instead.