[Gimp-user] Merging n everything
Taking a GIF file that is in one mode and switching it to another mode (i.e. combine to replace, and vice versa), may cause the GIF not to animate correctly. Combine style GIF's build up an image piece by piece, and not all layers are the same size. With Replace style GIF's, each layer is the same size and replaces the previous one in the animation. However...I think you could probably change the mode simply by loading it into GIMP, then saving it out in the mode you want. === hey thanks a ton for that !!! finally gave up on the idea of making it soo fancy for my first real pic... anyway i did have one last question i want to now blend my animation with a common background. The gif is almost done xcept for the blending in part... coz now my animation plays in a rectangular box with the background around it. Is there any way to sort of blend the animation layers into the background layer... just kind of lighten the edges of the layer so that a lil of the background is seen through... again.. i hope i made sense ... i tried using the blend tool.. but none of the background comes through .. the box just becomes white around the edges... -- rainman400 (via gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Merging n everything
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
[Gimp-user] Merging n everything
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. hey cool... thanks for that ... ill try that out soon enough ... anyways i just had one more doubt... may seem a lil off topic from this one though so i have this other .gif file that i am kinda trying to model my present pic on. so i just tried opening .gif file using open with layers... in the layers toolbox its something in this format xxx.gif- Frame 123 (combine) but when i open any other gif file like that it reads xxx.gif -Frame 123 (replace) now i knw that if i can get it to open as combineinstead of replace then i will be able to complete this particular assignment... coz although this other gif might have been created on some other software... it still wud be neat to knw how i cud do this on GIMP hope im making sense and thanks again xD -- rainman400 (via gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Merging n everything
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 -- rainman400 (via gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Merging n everything
On 12/28/2010 08:41 PM, rainman400 wrote: 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... File/Open as layers wil insert all the layers from an XCF in the current image. And in that same dialog, you can also select several files so you can load several JPG/PNG/GIF as layers in a single shot... ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Merging n everything
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:41:07 +0100 rainman400 for...@gimpusers.com wrote: 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 This may or may not be of interest to you; http://groups.google.fr/group/comp.graphics.apps.gimp/browse_thread/thread/010e01bd0930438a/d796da451195ed1e?lnk=raot or as shortened; http://tinyurl.com/25q7umr Owen ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Merging n everything
GIMP-GAP plugin does what you want. 1. Convert your text into a GAP animation, 2. Convert your background into a gap animation (duplicate that single frame 69 or however many times -- you can do the whole thing in a few clicks using Video-Duplicate frames) 3. Use GAP's navigator to move to the first frame of both animations (they must both be open in GIMP) 3. Use Video-Move Path, on the 'background' animation. Set the 'from frame..to frame' parameters to cover the entire number of frames and select the text image as source. Depending on whether the dimensions of your text animation match the background, you may also want to adjust the X and Y offsets. For animations of any complexity, I recommend you use GIMP-GAP. The facilities built in to GIMP are really quite basic. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:11 AM, rainman400 for...@gimpusers.com wrote: 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 -- rainman400 (via gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
