Layers comment
José Carlos Santos
I tried to follow the instructions from this tutorial:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/
about creating animated GIFs. In step 3 it says "In GIMP you specify the
delay as a layer comment. Just double-click the layer comment in the
layers' window and a delay in ms enclosed in brackets ()." Well, going to
Windows -> Dockable Dialogs -> Layers
I get the layers window, but I don't see a way of inserting a comment.
What am I doing wrong?
Best regards,
Jose Carlos Santos
Willi
You'll have to change the name of the layer. Ie whats written on the
right side of the layer-icon. Like: " Framename (1000ms)(replace) "
1000ms = 1000 milliseconds = 1 second
José Carlos Santos
>> I tried to follow the instructions from this tutorial:
>>
>> http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/
>>
>> about creating animated GIFs. In step 3 it says "In GIMP you specify
>> the delay as a layer comment. Just double-click the layer comment in
>> the layers' window and a delay in ms enclosed in brackets ()." Well,
>> going to
>>
>> Windows -> Dockable Dialogs -> Layers
>>
>> I get the layers window, but I don't see a way of inserting a comment.
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> You'll have to change the name of the layer. Ie whats written on the
> right side of the layer-icon. Like: " Framename (1000ms)(replace) "
> 1000ms = 1000 milliseconds = 1 second
Yes, that did it. Thanks a lot.
However, I am unable to get one one frame per layer, in spite of the
fact that I chose that options. My animation has two frames and what I
see is frame 1 followed by frame 1 + frame 2. Do you know why?
Willi
Can you post a link to the pic or post it to
news:alt.binaries.comp-graphics ? Or send it to my email address ?
g Willi
rich
I think you are going about it the wrong way, regardless of the tutorial,
make your image (as several layers) then save-as <something>.gif
This brings up a dialog where you can choose an animation which leads to
another dialog where you can set properties.
delay in milliseconds (default is 100)
disposal which governs how each layer is displayed
+ a couple of check boxes to apply the settings to all layers.
sudden thought - are you after different delays for different layers?
maybe thats where the Gimp comment comes in.
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rich
rich
forgot this - A screenshot of the basic way as above.
http://www.imageno.com/sp069d0r3sqepic.html
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rich
rich
I think you need to *right-click* on the layer then top of the menu is
"edit layer attributes" which opens a dialog to change the delay. see:
http://www.imageno.com/8fjk7po87l4zpic.html
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rich
José Carlos Santos
>>>> I tried to follow the instructions from this tutorial:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/
>>>>
>>>> about creating animated GIFs. In step 3 it says "In GIMP you specify
>>>> the delay as a layer comment. Just double-click the layer comment in
>>>> the layers' window and a delay in ms enclosed in brackets ()." Well,
>>>> going to
>>>>
>>>> Windows -> Dockable Dialogs -> Layers
>>>>
>>>> I get the layers window, but I don't see a way of inserting a comment.
>>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>> You'll have to change the name of the layer. Ie whats written on the
>>> right side of the layer-icon. Like: " Framename (1000ms)(replace) "
>>> 1000ms = 1000 milliseconds = 1 second
>>
>> Yes, that did it. Thanks a lot.
>>
>> However, I am unable to get one one frame per layer, in spite of the
>> fact that I chose that options. My animation has two frames and what I
>> see is frame 1 followed by frame 1 + frame 2. Do you know why?
>
> Can you post a link to the pic or post it to
> news:alt.binaries.comp-graphics ? Or send it to my email address ?
No need. I tried a few things and, in the end, it worked. Thanks for
your help.