OK - so it wasn't me, after all.
Thanks. I'll know next time. :)
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, George Crary wrote:
> Kate McMillan wrote:
> >Very simple. http://www.katewerk.com/images/pissoff3_animate.gif
> >
> >Question is this - I would like to add some more color, now that my first
> >little experiment is a success. But I cannot seem to figure out how to go
> >back into the layers to bring them up for editing?
> >
> >I must be missing something obvious.
> >
> >(like rtfm.)
>
> Yeah, I guess so - - 8->
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> or rather, http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/ Section 9.1
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> 9.1.1 Using GIF Files for Animation
> 9.1.2 GIMP Layers Can Behave Like Animation Frames
> 9.1.3 Saving Animations to GIF
> 9.1.4 A Second Example of Creating a GIF Animation
> 9.1.5 Animation Optimization
> 9.1.6 IWarp
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> I believe you can disassemble/reassemble animated Gifs, (with
> various Windoze software) but it looks like it would be a lot
> more fun to work with Gimp layers (check out the transparency stuff)
>
> Your pissoff file is a Gif, so there's no way to get it back to
> the original Gimp native format if you didn't save a copy of the
> file in .XCF before converting/saving as Gif because:
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> "... This is the only format that can save all the GIMP features
> and states when working on a project. If your image contains multiple
> layers, channels, selections, or paths, you must save using the XCF
> format to avoid losing parts of your work." (from Section 9.2)
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> Happy Gimping, happy reading, get that dog housebroken, eh.
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Kate
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