Re: [Gimp-user] Grandson is counting on me

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif shlomifish org>]

Hi,

also consider exporting to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG instead of
animated GIF.

On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 11:56:59 +0200
rich404 <forums gimpusers com> wrote:

> > Good day all,
> > So thankful to have found yall.Diligently trying to help my oldest
> > Grandson with a school project.Currently failing miserably thus
> > requesting the experts for assistance.
> > I've used Photoshop previously, although it has been years.Found Gimp
> > and love it.I have worked for hours trying to simply put my Grandson's
> > Face (.jpg) into an 8 second football players .gif  
>
>
> As long as you realise that you are not going to replace any of the animation
> studios, you might get something. Treat as a less-than-perfect-bit-of-fun.
>
> You downloaded an 8 sec gif to use. 8 seconds might have 80 layers. If it was
> just a static overlay/underlay there are scripts to automate. More probably
> you will need to paint in each layer. Tedious but there you are...
>
> Things to check. (1) Is the giff optimised? - if it is, unoptimise in Filters
> -> Animation -> Unoptimise. (2) The colour mode. For a gif it is indexed.
> Change this to RGB File -> Mode RGB.
>
> The I would select the face using freeselect tool, copy the selection. That is
> now the clipboard brush. Size it to suit and you can paint in each layer over
> the existing image.
>
> A lot to do there: A little video 5 minutes duration, on the whole process,
> including exporting a gif.
>
> https://youtu.be/-Mbi2n9apP4  Hope it helps.



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