Re: [Gimp-user] (no subject)

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 28/01/17 05:36, Paula Koval wrote:
> Hello, All!  I am a casual user of Gimp and I was trying to re-learn how to
> put a text layer on top of a gif image.
>
> I found a gif image to use for practice and I copied its URL to use to
> Create Image From Webpage.  I did that because I figured that the gif image
> would lose its motion if I tried to copy it to clipboard and then to Gimp.

If you copy/paste, probably, but you can save the image to disk and then 
open it in Gimp and that will work.