>ok now heres the deal .. i do knw a tediously long and tiring way to fix this >but i was hoping there would be an easier way
>i have a background image around with i want to add an animated flaming text >and a video which i converted to frames already. I have about 70 frames that i >want to add, so i made a animated text that lasts 70 frames too... i just >thought it was the logical thing to do ... >now the way i know around it is to actually manually copy and paste each layer >of the xcf i got from saving the animated text onto the each layer in a new >xcf with the main background.. but for 70 odd frames that gonna be a pain. and >i was thinking it would probably work with the frames i got from the video as >well... >so is there an easier way out .. im sure there is ... coz i opened the text >xcf using open as layers... but dont knw how to merge the whole thing. >thanks in advance One way perhaps but not Gimp. You can combine pairs of images with Imagemagick. (does not have to be .png but does need to be a format that supports transparency) For automating the process it makes sense to rename the sets of images. http://www.imagemagick.org Imagmagick is command line so in a console this command works convert 10001.png 20001.png -compose dissolve -composite new01.png note The image in second place (20001.png) overlays the first image so second has to contain transparency. I can't see anyway around this, you can use a different command to 'blend' but this alters colours. In your case maybe if the 'flames' have a central transparent area allowing the underlying 'text' to show. If using windows, then you can automate with a batch file along the lines of: FOR /L %%G IN (1,1,n) DO convert "1000"%%G.gif "2000"%%G.gif -compose dissolve -composite new%%G.gif where n is the no of frames. Do yourself a favour here and make a project folder containing all the images and the <something>.bat. Change to that folder and run the batch file from there. Same applies using a single command. That gets you a set of combined frames, open "As Layers" in Gimp and save as a new animated .gif. This might get you started, plenty of 'ifs-and-buts' though. -- rich (via gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
